Broadband Business Forecast articles from May 2005

Broadband Business Forecast archives from May 2005

And Now In 16th Place: The U.S. Falls Farther Behind In Broadband.
May 3, 2005... The United States has fallen yet farther behind a host of nations when it comes to broadband penetration, tumbling to 16th place in the world from 13th last year and 11th the year before, according to new numbers from the International...

The IPTV Business Model: Will neuf telecom Be An A La Carte Success?
May 3, 2005... France's neuf telecom wants to have 100,000 subscribers for its Internet Protocol (IP) TV service by the end of 2005. The telecom carrier, which launched "Neuf TV," a TV-over-DSL service, in November 2004, is one of the most progressive...

The Readers Speak: DSL & Cable Broadband In A Dead Heat.
May 3, 2005... The use of DSL and cable broadband by telecom professionals to access the Internet from their homes is absolutely equal, according to a just completed Web-based survey of readers of Broadband Business Forecast and of our sister Web site...

People To Watch.
May 3, 2005... * James Fultz has been named president and COO of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) startup i2Telecom. Fultz is an industry veteran who, from December 2000 until December 2004, served as president and CEO of a string of Silicon Valley...

Broadband Deployments.
May 3, 2005... The wiring of the world for broadband has continued apace during the past weeks with a flood of new deployment announcements covering just about every technology in the industry. Needless to say, Broadband Business Forecast can't cover them...

Deal Sheet.
May 3, 2005... Who's Doing What?: Juniper Networks [JNPR], headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.; 408/745-2000 Is gobbling up both Peribit Networks [privately held], headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif.; 408/330-5600 And Redline Networks [privately...

Brooktrout, RADvision Get Ready For The IP Video Revolution.
May 17, 2005... Brooktrout and RADvision are teaming in a move to position themselves for what many in the industry believe will be an explosion in IP video delivered to handheld widgetry. The partners are looking to grab a chunk of a mobile multimedia...

Is VoIP Peering Already Obsolete?
May 17, 2005... European backbone carrier Interoute Communications has come up with a new twist on interconnecting Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) carriers, a model the company thinks just begs the question: Are VoIP peering exchanges a threatened...

Making Satellite Broadband Profitable In Europe.
May 17, 2005... (Editor's note: This is the first article in a two-part series appearing in our sister publication Satellite News that examines the satellite broadband market in Europe. We felt the subject was interesting enough and important enough to...

New To Market: A Spring Sampler.
May 17, 2005... The normal flood of new-product announcements, many tied to the string of almost- weekly little trade shows held each spring, has been flowing mercilessly into our e-mail for the past month. With apologies to those companies whose products...

Broadband Briefs.
May 17, 2005... Chinese DSL Makers' Shipments Slip Chinese DSL hardware manufacturers, facing at least a temporary slowdown in their home market, lost worldwide market share during the first quarter, according to figures compiled by research house the...

People To Watch.
May 17, 2005... * Free-space-optical house Dominion Lasercom has named Willy Verbrugghe as chairman and CEO. Verbrugghe is an experienced startup manager who has held four president and two CEO positions; he has years of international operations management...

Deal Sheet.
May 17, 2005... Who's Doing What?: ECI Telecom [ECIL], headquartered in Petach Tikva, Israel; 011 972 3926 6555 Is getting a deal on Laurel Networks [privately held], headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pa.; 412/809-4200 What To Expect Near-Term: ECI is paying...

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May 17, 2005... By joining the InfoTech Institute for Communications Research InfoTech, a Broadband Business Forecast sister company, invites telecommunications experts to join its research panel. As a member, you will be invited to participate in routine...

VoIP Gets An Industrial Strength Asterisk*.
May 31, 2005... Digium, a little 35-person outfit down in Huntsville, Ala., is about to start shipping the industry's first industrial-strength version of its open source IP PBX software. The offering is a fully tested version of Asterisk, the software...

Broadlight Grabs E2E GPON Market Lead.
May 31, 2005... Broadlight has grabbed the limelight as first to market with - well, at least first to unveil although it's not quite gotten to market - a complete end- to-end (E2E) Gigabit passive optical network (GPON) solution for fiber to the user (FTTx)...

Making Satellite Broadband Profitable In Europe, Part II.
May 31, 2005... To turn a profit in the satellite broadband market in Europe, companies have looked at a variety of business models. For example, Hughes Network Systems Europe is shifting toward a direct marketing approach to reach subscribers, while...

News Analysis: Verizon, SBC Lose At Texas Hold'Em.
May 31, 2005... The Texas Senate has handed Verizon and SBC - and, indeed, the entire broadband industry - a major setback in their plans to roll out IP Video services by failing to come to a compromise agreement and to pass a bill that would eliminate the...

People To Watch.
May 31, 2005... VoIP house SIPquest has snagged 3Com executive David Hattey as its president and CEO. Hattey had been vice president and general manager of Enterprise Voice Solutions at 3Com. He takes over from SIPquest Co-Founder Alain Mouttham, who has...

Broadband Deployments: Looking Good.
May 31, 2005... Based on the flood of deployment announcements and contract wins Broadband Business Forecast has received in recent weeks, it looks like the quarter is shaping up to be a good one for the industry. We're receiving reports of good business from...

Convedia Bags Premier VoIP Conferencing Contract.
May 31, 2005... Premier Global Services [PGI], a service house specializing in audio and Web-based conferencing services, has turned to Convedia for a VoIP conferencing and collaboration platform. Premier is going to use Convedia's CMS-6000 and CMS- 1000...

Erenis Taps Rad For Low-Income Paris VoIP Service.
May 31, 2005... Israel's Rad Data Communications landed a contract to provide IPmux TDM- over-Internet Protocol (TDMoIP) gateway hardware for a novel project to provide low-priced telephone service - about $6 per month - to low-income Parisians. The contract...

FTTx Goes Underwater.
May 31, 2005... The Orcas Power and Light Cooperative in San Juan County, Wash., has turned to World Wide Packets for an unusual FTTx installation that runs over submarine cables, linking the county's four largest islands. Orcas is using World Wide...

Alloptic Snaps Up A Danish FTTx Delight.
May 31, 2005... Danish service provider IP-Phone Connect chose Alloptic as its vendor for gigabit Ethernet passive optical networks (GEPON) that IP-Phone has started installing in both greenfields and overbuilds throughout Denmark. The Alloptic- based system...

ZTE Builds Europe's First CDMA Digital Trunking Network.
May 31, 2005... China's ZTE is building the first CDMA-based digital trunking network in Europe for Nordisk Mobiltelefon AB. Phase One of the 3G wireless network, which eventually will cover all of Norway, is scheduled to be completed in the next week or...

ICOA Will Wi-Fi Kalamazoo Airport.
May 31, 2005... ICOA [ICOA] won the contract to provide Wi-Fi at the Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport in Michigan; the win is ICOA's 11th airport. Under the most recent contract, ICOA will provide design, deployment, management, maintenance and...

Level 3 Taps Infinera DWDM For Network Upgrade.
May 31, 2005... Level 3 Communications [LVLT] picked Infinera as its dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) supplier for an upgrade of its 23,000-mile fiber-optic network. Under the contract, whose value was not disclosed, Infinera will supply its DTN...

AT&T Wins IP VPN Order From Roofing Wholesaler.
May 31, 2005... ABC Supply Company, reportedly one of the largest U.S. wholesale distributors of roofing and siding materials, tools and supplies, ordered a $8.5 million IP virtual private network from AT&T [T] that will link more than 300 of ABC's locations...

Netcentrex Wins Norwegian IP Centrex Order.
May 31, 2005... Norwegian service provide Lyse Tele, a subsidiary of utility company Lyse Energi, is buying Netcentrex' Business Services Suite to power a new IP Centrex and Voice/Video VPN service offering to the enterprise market. Lyse Tele already uses...

Telkonet Wins Nationwide BPL Contract.
May 31, 2005... Multiband Corporation [MBND] - the former Vicom - has begun installing broadband-over-powerline (BPL) systems from Telkonet [TKO] in multi-dwelling unit communities around the United States. Telkonet says Multiband, which specializes in...

Deal Sheet.
May 31, 2005... Who's Doing What?: JDS Uniphase [JDSU], headquartered in San Jose, Calif.; 408/546-5000 In hopes that one plus one equals more than two is buying Acterna [privately held], headquartered in Germantown, Md.; 866/228-3762 What To Expect...