Broadband Business Forecast articles from June 2006

Broadband Business Forecast archives from June 2006

Globalcomm Wrap-Up: IPTV - The Battle Rages.
June 13, 2006... In a surprise move at last week's Globalcomm show in Chicago, Ericsson became the latest world-class telecommunications manufacturer to throw its hat into the Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) arena, aligning itself with Kassena in the battle for...

MEF Hands Out New Carrier Ethernet Certifications.
June 13, 2006... The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), in the latest of its growing suite of certifications of various aspects of Carrier Ethernet, last week certified hardware from 15 companies as meeting its "Abstract Test Suite for Traffic Management," a key...

WDM Meets ROADM As Adva Buys Movaz.
June 13, 2006... Adva Optical Networking is buying privately held Movaz Networks in a $75 million deal that will create a company that merges Adva's strength in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) and Movaz's line of WDM transport and reconfigurable...

Anda Mints More Money.
June 13, 2006... Anda Networks, riding the wave of what it brags is six quarters of profitability and a lucrative contract with Verizon Business, has closed on an additional $10.5 million in venture capital - its first round of funding in a half-a-dozen...

EPON Chip Stealth Startup Comes Out Of Hiding.
June 13, 2006... ImmenStar, a two-year-old startup that's been operating in deep stealth mode until now, has come out of hiding - with claims of millions of dollars in orders already in hand for a new species of EPON chips it says puts the competition to...

The Last Word: Industry Shuns Declaring A Supercomm Successor.
June 13, 2006... Last week's Globalcomm show in Chicago, which the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) dearly hoped would prove its mettle as the successor to Supercomm, has apparently failed to prove itself yet worthy of the mantle. Then again,...

Telco Systems And Metrobility: The Right Buy At The Right Time.
June 27, 2006... Ethernet house Telco Systems, a subsidiary of Israeli conglomerate BATM Advanced Communications, is buying metro Ethernet demarcation maven Metrobility for about $7 million in cash, a move that positions Telco Systems for its first massive...

10Gb/s Over Copper: IEEE Vets 10GBASE-T.
June 27, 2006... The IEEE has given its approval to a standard for 10 Gb/s broadband transmitted over unshielded twisted pair copper for distances as far as 100 meters - a key standard that eliminates the need for fiber in many installations. Passage of the...

NeoPhotonics Gobbles Up Small MEMS, ROADM Houses.
June 27, 2006... Fiber-optic component house NeoPhotonics is the new owner of up a pair of fellow optics players in a major step in the company's ongoing transition from passive optical components into next-gen networks (NGNs). It is paying an undisclosed...

Lucent Sees The Future, And It's Carrier Ethernet Over Fiber.(Obituary)
June 27, 2006... The transition from TDM-based telephony to IP-based communications has taken a startling turn with the conversion of Lucent Technologies that, while not quite totally abandoning TDM just yet, has outlined a future based on Carrier Ethernet....

People To Watch 6/27/06.
June 27, 2006... * John J. Roese has been hired as Nortel's chief technology officer, in theory the "final appointment" that completes the company's revamped executive staff. Roese, a longtime industry veteran, joins Nortel from Broadcom Corporation, where...