Broadband Business Forecast articles from May 2004

Broadband Business Forecast archives from May 2004

BPL Fate Now In FCC's Rulemaking Hands.
May 4, 2004... The period for comments on the FCC's planned rulemaking for the emergent Broadband Over Power Lines (BPL) industry closed May 3, with the potentially market-disruptive technology facing little more than a pile of annoying complaints that...

WiMax: The Race Is On.
May 4, 2004... With a spate of fresh analyst reports predicting that WiMax rapidly will become the world's dominant wireless broadband technology and the final vote on the IEEE 802.16b standard behind WiMax to be tallied in less than 60 days, the race is now...

Broadband Finally Dominates The United States.
May 4, 2004... Some time around the end of next month, or perhaps early in July, broadband penetration of homes in the United States that have Internet connections is expected to reach the magic 50-percent mark, according to market extrapolations in the April...

New Broadband Growth Index Has Global Surprises.
May 4, 2004... Global broadband business growth isn't happening exactly where some folks thought it would, according to the Broadband Growth Index crafted by U.K. research house Point Topic. The wily Brits have massaged the estimated numbers for broadband...

Broadcom Tops Intel In Ethernet Chip Sales.
May 4, 2004... Bet they're breaking out the champagne at Broadcom [BRCM] headquarters following an IDC report last week that proclaimed Broadcom the market leader in Ethernet semiconductor revenues, edging out Intel [INTL] for the honors. Broadcom...

Wi-Fi In the Park.
May 4, 2004... Visitors to Washington, D.C., can now sit down outside of the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress or the Capital Visitor's Center and surf to their heart's content for free using the first of a string of hot spots being built by The Open...

High Flying Deal.
May 4, 2004... Boeing [BA] business unit Connexion by Boeing and NTT DoCoMo [DCM] are negotiating a deal to link their broadband networks in order to let NTT DoCoMo mZone wireless broadband users use the Connexion service to surf while in flight. A memorandum...

125Mb/s Start-up Lands $30M Funding.
May 4, 2004... Pulse-Link of San Diego has closed on a Series D private placement of $30 million worth of shares -- cash it needs to complete the development and to go to market with an ultra-wideband technology now under development. Pulse-Link said that the...

Arris Targets IP Video.
May 4, 2004... Broadband voice-and-data-hardware house Arris [ARRS] is getting ready to jump into the IP video market - another in the endless stream of companies betting that triple play offerings will prove a home run in the market. The Suwanee, Ga.-based...

Instant Mesh Maker Financed.
May 4, 2004... Firetide, which fancies itself an "instant mesh maker" because of the claimed ease of use of its HotPoint Wireless Mesh Router, landed $13.6 million in second round funding, bringing total VC investment in the young company to $16.8 million....

Cedar Point Goes Latin.
May 4, 2004... VoIP switch house Cedar Point Communications has landed its first contract in Latin America, a deal with Ecuador's TVCable Group to use Cedar Point's Safari C3 media switching system to deliver VoIP throughout the country. TVCable is putting...

Deal Sheet.
May 4, 2004... Who's Doing What?: RF Micro Devices Inc. [RFMD], headquartered in Greensboro, N.C.; 336/664-1233 Is buying Silicon Wave Inc. [privately held], headquartered in San Diego, Calif.; 858/453-9100 What To Expect Near-Term: Radio frequency...

Broadband Convergence Attracts The Heavy Hitters.
May 18, 2004... With broadband now ubiquitous enough for every little startup with a bright idea to snip off a little piece of business -- under battle flags like VoIP, convergence and triple play -- some big guns in the telecommunications industry showed up...

Study Shows Americans More Willing To Buy Content.
May 18, 2004... For the past several months, Broadband Business Forecast has been analyzing survey after survey that has come to the same conclusion: The U.S. broadband market no longer can count for growth on people who are buying speed for the simple sake of...

FCC Task Force Looks At Wi-Fi.
May 18, 2004... The FCC has created a Wireless Broadband Access Task Force with the charter of reviewing spectrum management policies and regulations in order to promote the growth of Wi-Fi use. As a first step, the new task force issued a call for public...

Wi-Fi Seen Eclipsing Cellular Data Services.
May 18, 2004... U.S. use of mobile Wi-Fi will catch up to and will surpass the 2.5/3G cell phone-based mobile data user base by 2007, according to new estimates by Pyramid Research. Wi-Fi certainly is much faster than 3G, which tops out at a theoretical...

Space Station Spinoff Targets Enterprise Broadband Market.
May 18, 2004... Auspice, which was born seven years ago as a spinoff of a NASA international space-station project and which has captured an estimated 52 percent of the cable broadband market for network management monitoring, has turned its sights on the...

Metro Ethernet Forum Invites End Users Into The Fold.
May 18, 2004... The Metro Ethernet Forum, until now the private domain of manufacturers, has decided to let end users join its ranks. "A lot of enterprises have come to us, [saying they] want to be involved," says Forum Vice President and Director Gary...

Wi-Fi To The Max: ParkerVision Claims One-Mile Wireless Broadband.
May 18, 2004... Just when we at Broadband Business Forecast along with just about everybody else in the industry thought Wi-Fi had just about reached the end of its physical distance range without jacking up transmission power, it turns out that somebody's...

Cisco VoIP: 5 Million And Counting.
May 18, 2004... Cisco [CSCO] last week said that it just shipped its three-millionth IP telephone. The golden phone, conveniently, went to one of Cisco's biggest IP phone customers, Adobe Systems [ADBE], which has installed more than 3,800 Cisco IP phones...

Pulse-Link Previews UWB Chip.
May 18, 2004... Pulse-Link has some test silicon in its lab it claims will deliver as much as1Gb/s ultra wide broadband (UWB) wireless connectivity, or as much as 200 Mb/s worth of broadband over powerline or as much as1Gb/s of downstream bandwidth across...

LA's Little Tokyo Wi-Fied.
May 18, 2004... The Little Tokyo district of Los Angeles is going to get Wi-Fi broadband in a project deal engineered by Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC), a charity serving Asian and Pacific Islanders in the L.A. metro area. EWan1 [EWAN] will deploy and...

Wi-LAN Books Indian Wi-Fi Order.
May 18, 2004... Indian broadband provider Tulip IT Services has ordered up Wi-Lan [WIN] hardware to power Internet kiosks in the Indian state of Kerala. Total value of the order was not disclosed, but Wi-Lan said the initial $100,000 worth of hardware will go...

Olympic Strength Wi-Fi.
May 18, 2004... The Canadian District of Squamish, already getting ready for the 2010 Olympics, has chosen LogiSense to provide the software for hot spots the Squamishites (at least we think that's what they're called) are installing. For those not familiar...

Telefonica Stays With Lucent.
May 18, 2004... Brazil's Telefonica ordered as many as 96,000 additional ADSL access ports from Lucent Technologies (LU). The new capacity, to be installed in the state of Sao Paulo, builds on the 190,000 ADSL ports Lucent already has installed for the...

Broadcom/Xelerated Field Reference Design.
May 18, 2004... Broadcom [BRCM] and Xelerated have put together a reference design for enterprise and metropolitan Ethernet switches that combines Broadcom's StrataXGS family of Ethernet switch chips and Xelerate's network processors. The reference design is...

Deal Sheet.
May 18, 2004... Who's Doing What?: C-Cor.net Corp [CCBL], headquartered in State College, Pa.; 814/238-2461 Is buying Alopa Networks [privately held], headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.; 408/331-1750 What To Expect Near-Term: Broadband hardware,...