Broadband Business Forecast articles from June 2005

Broadband Business Forecast archives from June 2005

Broadband Video: Here Comes the Revolution.
June 14, 2005... The video revolution is nearly upon us - the IP Video revolution that is - powered by the growing availability of true multi-digit broadband. It is already possible to deliver IP Video, as the relative-handful of those who already get IPTV...

Metro Ethernet Misses The Metro.
June 14, 2005... A funny thing happened on the way to the Metro Ethernet Forum. It crafted what's turning out to be a market-winning technology - high reliability Ethernet - but it got the market winner slightly wrong. It isn't Metro per se - it's Ethernet...

UNH-IOL: Time For Triple-Play Interop Tests.
June 14, 2005... The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), one of the premier vendor-neutral facilities of its kind in the U.S., has launched an initiative to convince the broadband industry that it's time to start testing...

HomePlug Update.
June 14, 2005... Between endless meetings with IP video purveyors at last week's Supercomm and hit- and-run assaults on Metro Ethernet market vendors, Broadband Business Forecast made some time to squeeze in a quiet breakfast with in-home broadband-...

People To Watch.
June 14, 2005... * WiMAX silicon developer Wavesat has named Vijay Dube as vice president of marketing and business development, with responsibility for partnerships and alliances as well as leading Wavesat's global marketing activities. Dube joins Wavesat...

Insider Insights Into Managed-Services Market Growth.
June 14, 2005... NEW! Go to TelecomWeb's "Managed Services Report" to find out what Dave Dial, vice president of Managed Services at Lucent Worldwide Services, sees for the future of the managed-services market. Read about the growth plans for the next...

Deal Sheet.
June 14, 2005... Who's Doing What?: VoIP, Inc. [VOII], headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; 954-434-2000 Has closed on the acquisition of telecom holding company Caerus, [Privately Held], Headquartered in Altamonte Springs, Florida; 407-389-3232...

BBF Confidential: The Truth About WiMAX.
June 28, 2005... With the first WiMAX Forum conformance testing, by Spanish test lab Cetecom, now set to start within weeks, Broadband Business Forecast thought it was time for an industry sanity check. What we found was, in a word, insane - a world that...

VDSL2: The Race To Market Is On.
June 28, 2005... Barely a month after the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) gave its blessing to VDSL2 as a standard - officially ratified May 27 as G.993.2 although the VDSL2 moniker is undoubtedly what will be used by the industry - companies...

JCom Ponders 250 Mb/s Home Broadband Scheme.
June 28, 2005... Sometime late next month, Japan's Jupiter Telecommunications will launch its first 100 Mb/s broadband service to multiple-dwelling units, using technology to pump the signal within buildings over the coaxial cable originally installed to...

LiveVoip Dies.
June 28, 2005... LiveVoip LLC, one of the hundreds of small VoIP resellers that have sprung up looking like they were real phone companies, has ceased operations, disappearing into bankruptcy overnight. Customers appear to have been left both without service...

People To Watch.
June 28, 2005... * Motorola hired Teresa (Terry) Vega to lead its CDMA organization. Vega, who will report directly to Ron Garriques, executive vice president and president of Motorola's Mobile Devices Business, most recently was group president of Wireless,...

Deal Sheet.
June 28, 2005... Who's Doing What?: Cisco Systems [CSCO], headquartered in San Jose, Calif.; 408/526-4000 Is buying startup NetSift [privately held], headquartered in San Diego, Calif; (no phone number available since the Cisco deal was announced) What To...

NEW! Insider Insights Into Managed-Services Market Growth.
June 28, 2005... Go to TelecomWeb's "Managed Services Report" to find out what Dave Dial, Vice President of Managed Services at Lucent Worldwide Services, sees for the future of the managed-services market. Read about the growth plans during the next few...