Broadband Business Forecast articles from March 2007

Broadband Business Forecast archives from March 2007

A Shocking Broadband News Review.
March 6, 2007... Predictions are that 2007 will be the hottest year yet for broadband over power line (BPL) - for in-home distribution of broadband, so-called "access BPL" for delivery of broadband to homes and businesses, and for use as a technology to...

Powering Ethernet At The Edge.
March 6, 2007... With all the attention being paid to pumping broadband over lines carrying electricity - BPL - Broadband Business Forecast thought it also is time to take a look at one of the startups in the nascent business of pumping electricity over lines...

People To Watch (3/06/07).
March 6, 2007... >>OnAir, the joint venture between Airbus and SITA aiming to provide in- flight cellular and broadband where Boeing and its Connexion service failed, has named Benoit Debains as its new CEO. Debains, who had been senior vice president of...

Skype-To-Mobile Startup Gets Venture-Cash Infusion.
March 6, 2007... Investors have plowed $7 million in second-round funding into iSkoot, the Cambridge, Mass., startup that scored its first coup by landing eBay's Skype to work with it in rolling out its VoIP client for mobile phones. iSkoot, which had...

Cortina Gobbles Up EPON SoC Startup ImmenStar.
March 6, 2007... Cortina Systems Inc., the once-little outfit that bought up Intel's optical network product line barely six months ago, now is gobbling up Ethernet PON (EPON) System-on-Chip (SoC) house ImmenStar Inc. Terms of the deal were not...

3G Video Calling: Priced Right Out Of The Market.
March 6, 2007... One of the big treats being touted by some for 3G mobile broadband is the ability to do video calling over one's cellphone or other wireless widget. Broadband Business Forecast's sister division Tarifica has taken a look at why, as of now,...

Muni Mesh Gets Cheaper.
March 20, 2007... With municipal Wi-Fi meshes all the rage these days, the technology is, inevitably, following the path of just about every successful technology that's come down the pick since the dawn of the computer age - volumes go up, new generations of...

People To Watch (3/20/07).
March 20, 2007... Verizon Senior Vice President/Technology and CTO Mark Wegleitner has been elected second vice-chair of The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS). Also, Qwest CTO Pieter Poll was elected by the ATIS board to serve as chair...

BPL House Telkonet Makes Some 'Smart' Acquisitions.
March 20, 2007... In the space of a week, broadband over powerline (BPL) specialist Telkonet has picked up Smart Systems International (SSI), a specialist in in- room energy management systems for the hospitality and multi-dwelling unit (MDU) market, and...

SoC House Provigent Closes Fourth Funding Round.
March 20, 2007... Israeli broadband wireless transmission chip vendor Provigent Inc. has landed $16 million in new venture capital in what is its fourth funding round. The latest round brings to $37 million total funding for the startup, which specializes in...

Ericsson Gobbles Up Its Messaging-Technology Supplier.
March 20, 2007... Ericsson is buying its IP-voice and video-mail software supplier Mobeon. It already owned 21 percent of the 130-man outfit, which produces the key component of Ericsson's Messaging over IP (MoIP) solution - an IP-based voice and video-mail...

Picture This: Fighting Crime With Wireless Broadband.
March 20, 2007... Video surveillance cameras are hardly something new in the world. After all, banks and casinos have had them for decades, to cite just two major markets. But the latest in wireless broadband technology, particularly municipal meshes and...

Surprise! The 802.11n Draft Wins Overwhelming Support.
March 20, 2007... The second draft of the IEEE's proposed 802.11n standard has won landslide support from an industry that had been dithering around with the ultra-high-speed wireless broadband specification since early 2004. 802.11n promises a maximum data...

The Wireless Dragon Breathes New Fire Into Carrier Ethernet.
March 20, 2007... Let's face it: Backhaul isn't sexy. Not even wireless backhaul. Most of the glory goes to the last-mile technologies that touch the end user. So getting Broadband Business Forecast to notice a new backhaul product is a tough sell. Enter...