Broadband Business Forecast articles from May 2007

Broadband Business Forecast archives from May 2007

Motorola Buys Video-Processing House Terayon.
May 1, 2007... Motorola is buying Israeli video-processing house Terayon - which during the past few years has spent $1 billion buying up other companies in a failed attempt to be a major broadband player - for a bargain-basement $140 million. Motorola...

Experts Bemoan, Politicos Ponder U.S. Broadband Shortfall.
May 1, 2007... The United States has slipped to 15th place in broadband penetration, down from 12th place, according to newly released statistics from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Coincidentally, the OECD numbers...

New Ethernet Standard Okayed: 10 GB/s On The Backplane.
May 1, 2007... The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Standards Board has approved the "Backplane Ethernet" standard - a 3.5-year effort that brings standardized Ethernet into the guts of computers, bravely going where Ethernet has never gone before. ...

Pew Study Finds Few Americans 'Love' Web 2.0.
May 15, 2007... Only about 8 percent of the adult population of the United States actually makes full use of the capabilities represented by the so-called 'Web 2.0,' according to a new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. And that's despite -...

People To Watch 5/15/07.
May 15, 2007... * BT has announced another major piece of the executive realignment that began last month (TelecomWeb news break, April 24) with the creation a pair of units to "create, deploy and operate" software-driven broadband services across its shiny...

DOCSIS 3.0: There's A Reason For The Bronze Age.
May 15, 2007... (Broadband Business Forecast's sister publication, Communications Technology, ventured out recently to The Cable Show in Las Vegas to sponsor a breakfast session examining the cable industry's new DOCSIS 3.0, its bright hope to compete in...

RAD Enters VoIP Market With LEAD Acquisition.
May 15, 2007... Veteran Israeli telecommunications house RAD Data Communications bought the assets of VoIP startup LEAD IP Systems, a fellow Israeli company. The acquisition, whose terms were not disclosed, marks the entree of 25-year-old Ethernet...

JDSU Buys Broadband Test-Gear Maker.
May 15, 2007... JDSU Uniphase is the new owner of privately held, Ottawa, Canada-based Innocor, a provider of broadband test solutions for network equipment manufacturers, but terms of the deal remain undisclosed. The deal is expected to close by June 30....

BPL Burrows Into The Xbox, Plays In The Pentagon.
May 15, 2007... Given that so many of the games on video consoles consist of war simulations, perhaps its appropriate that, in a pair of important broadband over powerline (BPL) technology highlights, Telkonet says it won a massive U.S. Department of Defense...

Global Crossing Enters Latin America.
May 15, 2007... Global Crossing closed on Impsat Fiber Networks in a $347 million deal involving debt repayment and equity for the Latin American provider of integrated broadband data, Internet, voice telecommunications and advanced hosting. The...

Holy Borat! Nortel Does NGN For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan.
May 30, 2007... JSC Kazakhtelecom, the dominant carrier in Kazakhstan, has begun rolling out what it crows is the first next-generation-nationwide network (NGN) in the Confederation of Independent States (CIS). The NGN is the creation of Nortel, which...

Captain Nemo Be Proud: Undersea Cable Rebounds.
May 30, 2007... The year 2007 has begun to look like it will be the best in at least half a decade for the submarine fiber cable business. What looks to be substantially more than a billion dollars of new business has emerged in just the past few weeks, a...

People To Watch 5/30/07.
May 30, 2007... * Andy Chen has joined mobile VoIP technology house MINO Wireless as senior vice president/business development. Prior to this appointment, Chen led the Wi-Fi and mobile-device-ecosystem partnership at Skype. He also served as senior...

Optium Buys Israeli 40 Gb/s Chip House.
May 30, 2007... High-performance optical subsystems maker Optium has snatched up Israeli 40 Gb/s transceiver startup Kailight Photonics, paying a reported $35 million in cash plus as much as $5 million more, depending on business results. Kailight,...

Warning: Cisco Will Be Watching You.
May 30, 2007... Cisco Systems signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held, IP-based, video-surveillance software house BroadWare Technologies, paying an undisclosed amount for the two-year-old startup. The purchase is Cisco's second in the...

Secrets Revealed: How Canada's Waterloo Was Crowned The World's 'Intelligent Community'.
May 30, 2007... Waterloo, Ontario - among other honors the home of Blackberry progenitor Research In Motion (RIM) - has been crowned "Intelligent Community of the Year" for 2007 by the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF). The contest is an annual competition...

Congress Continues To Debate Internet Tax Freedom Extension.
May 30, 2007... In February, Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.) introduced the "Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act of 2007," seeking to extend the moratorium on Internet access taxes and duplicative taxes on e-commerce permanently. The moratorium applies to a...