Broadband Business Forecast articles from March 2006

Broadband Business Forecast archives from March 2006

IPTV On The Cheap: Amino Will Offer Firefox User Interface.
March 7, 2006... IPTV set-top-box maker Amino Communications is going to craft a version of the free, open-source Firefox Internet browser for use as the user interface (UI) on its widgetry - a move that, among things, Amino hopes will let it slash prices...

Long-Haul Optical Bounces Back A Bit.
March 7, 2006... The long-haul optical market was up 32 percent last year, the first time since 2001 that long haul has shown a year-over-year increase, according to new estimates by research house Infonetics Research. Still, long haul remains a far...

OPERAtic Discord: Stage Set For BPL Battle.
March 7, 2006... The European Union's Open PLC European Research Alliance (OPERA) has released its final specifications for broadband over powerlines (BPL, or PLC as the Europeans call it) as expected, basing its specifications on baseline technology from...

Company To Watch: Cisco Gets Tazz'ed.
March 7, 2006... Cisco is going to market with a software package called the Cisco Broadband Policy Control Manager - an event that would possibly be lumped in with the other 127 new software announcements during the past few weeks except for one fact: The...

A Visit To The Grey Side Of Broadband.
March 7, 2006... Put This In Your Blog And Read It, an occasional op-ed piece from the always opinionated Stuart Zipper, editor, Broadband Business Forecast High-tech editors are no more immune from SPAM and SCAM than is anyone else on the Internet, so...

People To Watch.
March 7, 2006... * Keith Paglusch has been named COO for the new wireline company to be formed through the $9.1 billion spinoff of Alltel's wireline business and its merger with VALOR Communications Group. Paglusch, a 25-year veteran of the telecom industry,...

Deal Sheet 03/07/06.
March 7, 2006... Who's Doing What? Bookham [BKHM], headquartered in San Jose, Calif.; 408/383-1400 Is taking on a new line by buying VCSEL chip house Avalon Photonics [privately held], headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland; 011 41 1 498 1411 ...

Are you going to Comptel PLUS?
March 7, 2006... March 19-22, 2006 - Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, CA Register now for COMPTEL PLUS, the premier networking event for communications service providers. Network 1-on-1 with communications thought leaders at the Comptel Deal Center...

Thinking Inside The Box: mPhase Unveils IPTV Product.
March 21, 2006... With Internet Protocol (IP) TV barreling down the track like an express train, mPhase Technologies and a group of its partners have put together a sort of "starter kit" for bewildered telcos - particularly smaller ones not ready to take on...

Company To Watch: ANDA Networks Scores A Triple Play.
March 21, 2006... ANDA Networks, scoring a hat trick, has landed Lucent Technologies' Worldwide Services unit to provide global maintenance services for its Metro Ethernet products; has disclosed that Canada's largest wireless operator Rogers Wireless has...

Broadband Cartography: Mapping BPL.
March 21, 2006... Mapping specialist MapInfo has turned its attention to the emerging broadband over powerline (BPL) market, hoping to cash in both on the growing interest in BPL technology and electric utilities' fear of the unknown. Broadband Business...

Survey Sez: Who Really Wants IPTV?
March 21, 2006... With Internet Protocol (IP) TV roaring onto the U.S. broadband scene, one of the key questions to be answered remains whether enough folks will really pay for the service, forsaking their current TV supplier. Equally important is what types...

People To Watch.
March 21, 2006... * Virginia Ruesterholz, president of Verizon's Partner Solutions wholesale division, has been named president of Verizon Telecom. In her new job, she will oversee sales and marketing for the consumer, small business and wholesale market...

Deal Sheet 03/21/06.
March 21, 2006... Who's Doing What? Cisco [CSCO], headquartered in San Jose, Calif.; 408/526-4000 Is buying, of all things, video surveillance house SyPixx Networks [privately held], headquartered in Waterbury, Conn.; 203/753-1503 >>Terms Of...