Broadband Business Forecast articles from June 2007

Broadband Business Forecast archives from June 2007

U.K. Wireless Broadband Wins More Power To Reach The People.
June 12, 2007... U.K. regulator Ofcom has doubled the power allowed for transmitters in the 5.8 GHz band in hopes the move will bring wireless broadband to the remaining fraction of the population living in remote areas where broadband is not available. ...

Company To Watch: Pannaway Aims Higher.
June 12, 2007... It's hard to be a little fish in a big ocean - most get eaten. A couple of years ago, Broadband Business Forecast sat down with one of those little fishies, a company called Pannaway, first trying to make its way into the world of IP-based...

40 Gb/s Broadband Goes Down Under.
June 12, 2007... Ericsson and Telstra says they've have successfully completed the first live network trial of next-generation 40 Gb/s optical technology in Australia, using Telstra's existing 10Gb/s Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) backbone without...

Broadband Milestones: DSL, BPL, FTTH Tally Record Totals.
June 12, 2007... In what looks to be a coincidental conjunction of many milestones in the broadband business, proponents of xDSL, broadband over powerlines (BPL) and Fiber to the Home (FTTH) within a period of days have all claimed major victories for their...

People To Watch 6/12/07.
June 12, 2007... * Eric Simonsen, who has been serving as the global head of restructuring at Nokia Siemens Networks, has become CFO. Simonsen is taking over from Peter Schoenhofer, who is resigning for what were described as personal reasons. Simonsen, who...

New Money: Investors Take To Airband.
June 12, 2007... Airband Communications, which fancies itself the largest fixed wireless company for business customers in the United States, has closed its third round of venture funding, picking up $12.5 million. Airband, which claims a customer base of...

First Flush Of Carriers Certified For Carrier Ethernet.
June 26, 2007... The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), handing out kudos to carriers for the first time, has certified 11 service providers for meeting Carrier Ethernet standards for service delivery and performance - a passel of certifications the MEF brags no...

A New Bird Joins The Flock Of Airborne Broadband Hopefuls.
June 26, 2007... When Boeing's pioneer airborne broadband effort, Connexion, crashed last year (TelecomWeb news break, Aug. 17, 2006), it was hardly the death knell for broadband in the sky. Indeed, it now looks more like a gold rush, with companies emerging...

Carrier Ethernet Demarc: What's Mine, Yours & Ours.
June 26, 2007... Once upon a time, the seminal Ma Bell owned the entire network, all the way to the phones on every desk in America. As times changed and companies began owning their own PBXs and internal wiring, there arose the desire for demarcation...

On The Campaign Trail: 19 Candidates In Search Of A Broadband Policy.
June 26, 2007... Just about every one of the multiplicities of candidates vying for the Democratic and Republican nominations for president has begun to stake out a position on broadband. In some cases, those positions are best described as knee-jerk...

ATIS Fields First IPTV Architectural Framework Standard.
June 26, 2007... The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) released a high-level architectural framework designed to serve as the reference architecture for the IPTV functional specifications being developed by the group's IPTV...