Broadband Business Forecast articles from March 2008

Broadband Business Forecast archives from March 2008

Ikanos Does Double With xDSL Integrated Chip.
March 4, 2008... The term "integrated circuit" has taken on new meaning at broadband chip house Ikanos, as the company targets what it thinks will be an explosive emerging market for VDSL2 broadband. It's claiming to have crafted the world's very first...

IPG Photonics Buys BT Photonics Patent Portfolio.
March 4, 2008... High-powered fiber lasers and amplifiers house IPG Photonics Corporation has purchased more than 100 U.S. patents and their more than 340 foreign counterparts from British Telecom (BT). IPG, based in Oxford, Mass., didn't disclose how...

NEC Lightens Up IMS.
March 4, 2008... To listen to proponents of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) technology, it's full speed ahead. The IMS Forum has just completed its fourth "plugfest," with full results soon to be released. But preliminary word already says it's going to be...

V.92 Rides Again As Conexant Does Dongles.
March 4, 2008... Just when we thought that dial-up was dying, Conexant Systems released what it calls "a complete design platform" for V.92 dongle modems that's fully compatible with worldwide standards (V.92, for those who have forgotten, is 56 Kb/s...

People To Watch 3/4/08.
March 4, 2008... Tellabs has named Robert W. Pullen as its new CEO, taking over from Krish A. Prabhu, who announced his resignation in November 2007. Pullen, who has been at Tellabs since 1985, most recently was vice president/general manager of global...

French Consortium Creates In-Home Broadband Joint Venture.
March 4, 2008... A trio of the heaviest communications-industry hitters in France - France Telecom's Orange, Thomson and Sagem Communications - are joining forces in a joint venture to create the software needed to control in-home broadband networks...

Investors Buy Into Israeli Wireless USB House.
March 4, 2008... Wireless USB startup Wisair has garnered another $24 million in venture funding, bringing to $70 million the total so far plowed into the young Israeli company, which is partially funded by Intel and Broadcom. The new cash is earmarked,...

Coming Soon: A New 'Guardian' Of The Wireless Airwaves.
March 18, 2008... Alcatel-Lucent is claiming rights as the first to recognize the true nature of wireless-data traffic and, as a result, to come up with a product to fix a problem most of the industry hasn't understood: that not every packet is the same. ...

Why Is Cisco Taking A Chance On P2P IPTV?
March 18, 2008... Cisco has placed what looks to be a side bet on a funky little IPTV startup called GridNetworks. This new player claims that, using peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, it can dish up HDTV-quality video using just 1 Mb/s of bandwidth. Just how...

ECI: The Next Generation.(Company overview)
March 18, 2008... Telecom hardware giant ECI - touting its history as a telco, rather than enterprise, network supplier - has intensified its thrust into next-generation networking (NGN), replete with a framework that melds just about every current- generation...

France Telecom Spears IPTV's Killer Whale.
March 18, 2008... France Telecom's IPTV software subsidiary, Viaccess, is buying Israel IPTV middleware house Orca Interactive for $21.4 million in cash in a deal that will give the French specialist in conditional access (CA) and digital-rights- management...

iBahn Buys Menacom Hotel Broadband Provider.
March 18, 2008... Global hotel broadband provider iBahn, based in Utah, has bought Menacom, the largest provider of broadband internet services to hoteliers in Egypt. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Menacom provides plug-and-play...

People To Watch 3/18/08.
March 18, 2008... Cablevision Systems Corporation broadband subsidiary Optimum Lightpath has promoted Robin Silverman to senior vice president/chief customer officer (CCO) and Joe Caruso to senior vice president/business planning, intercarrier and...