Broadband Business Forecast articles from November 2004

Broadband Business Forecast archives from November 2004

10 GigE Chip Sales Pass Major Milestone.
November 2, 2004... Quake Technologies, which claims a massive 80-percent market share in the admittedly infant market for 10 Gb/s Ethernet (10 GigE) semiconductors, has just shipped its 100,000th chip. The milestone took about two years to reach, and it's no...

Wireless, Powerline Team For Showcase Deployment.
November 2, 2004... Down around Baton Rouge, La., one of the most unusual broadband deployments in the United States is underway - a hybrid melange of a pre-WiMax wireless backbone, proprietary in-building broadband over powerline (BPL) technology where the user...

Japanese Cablecos Band Together For VoIP Assault.
November 2, 2004... A coalition of otherwise competing Japanese cable broadband companies has banded together to study the possibility of providing primary VoIP phone services as a group. The group includes a dozen of the 18 different cable operators in the Kansai...

Aussie Regulators Look At VoIP.
November 2, 2004... The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) has published a "discussion paper" to elicit comment before it sits down to draft regulations for the technology. So far, voice over IP (VoIP) has made only minor penetration into the consumer...

Vonage Launches U.K. Virtual Numbers.
November 2, 2004... Vonage has started handing out so-called "virtual numbers" with London city codes. The numbers allow local callers in the U.K. to reach Vonage subscribers in the United States or Canada without any long-distance fees. The London numbers...

S&P Tells Utilities How To Play The Broadband Power Game.
November 2, 2004... Power utilities in the United States have a second chance to cash in on the broadband revolution - if they do it right this time, according to an analysis by Standard & Poor's. With broadband over power lines (BPL) suddenly a hot topic...

BPL Rules Published.
November 2, 2004... The Federal Communications Commission's approval of rules governing broadband over powerline (BPL) early last month was followed last week with the release of the formal regulations that had been approved - a 86-page document that includes such...

MCI Vets Form New VoIP Carrier With Nokia Backing.
November 2, 2004... Yet another VoIP carrier has been born - an outfit called SunRocket, founded by a pair of former MCI [MCI] execs and with first-round investment cash from a group led by Nokia [NOK] venture capital arm Nokia Venture Partners. EX-MCI...

Covad Finds A Silver Lining In FCC Fiber Ruling.
November 2, 2004... While pretty much the entire telecom industry has been buzzing about the FCC's decision to exempt fiber to the curb (FTTC) and to the premises (FTTP) from unbundling, the folks over at Covad [COVD] have been reading the decision in a different...

T-Com Rolls Out Lucent-Powered GigE Service.
November 2, 2004... Deutsche Telekom's [DT] T-Com subsidiary launched a fast Ethernet business service throughout its service area in Germany called EthernetConnect, with speeds of 10, 50 and 100 Mb/s and, optionally, gigabit Ethernet. The new service is built...

Deal Sheet.
November 2, 2004... Who's Doing What?: C-Cor [CCBL], headquartered in State College, Pa.; 814/238-2461 In its fifth acquisition of the year is buying nCube Inc. [privately held], headquartered Beaverton, Ore.; 503/629-5088 What To Expect Near-Term: C-Cor is...

Alcoa Unit Enters U.S. Active FTTx Market.
November 16, 2004... AFL Telecommunications, in which American industrial giant Alcoa [AA] holds a 51-percent stake and Japanese conglomerate Fujikura [FKURF] holds the rest, is entering the U.S. active Ethernet FTTx market. It's begun selling active Ethernet...

Mobile Video: 3 Proves The Future Is Now.
November 16, 2004... Broadband services are alive and well in the wireless arena, especially in the U.K., where 3, a 3G mobile operator owned by Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa, already is seeing 20 percent of its revenues coming from non-voice services, serving as...

C-Cor Nabs Piece Of Israeli VoIP-Over-Cable Project.
November 16, 2004... C-Cor [CCBL] nabbed a piece of the pie in the $100 million PacketCablebased IP telephony network that a consortium of Israeli cable- television vendors are building. Under a contract of undisclosed value, C-Cor said its Service Activation...

Adva First To Ace EFM Standards Test.
November 16, 2004... Adva Optical Networking [ADVOF] has won the race to be first to pass the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory's (UNH-IOL) Ethernet-in-the-first-mile testing (EFM) program, a 100-point test suite based on the IEEE's...

Dial-Up Dying Down Under.
November 16, 2004... A majority of Australians will have moved from dial-up to broadband by the middle of 2006, with a majority of New Zealanders following suit by the middle of the following year, according to a study of the market down under done by Ericsson's...

Nortel Wins Ausssie WiFi Mesh Shootout.
November 16, 2004... Nortel [NT] beat a field of 10 competitors to provide Edith Cowan University with what is believed will be the first wireless mesh network in Australia. The 23,000-student university, located in Western Australia, has ordered a network...

Home Sweet 100 Mb/s Home.
November 16, 2004... The "tech-savvy" broadband home in the United States will be consuming nearly 100 Mb/s in bandwidth by 2009, predicts a research note from Jupiter Research. The company envisions in-home networks linking PCs, TVs, entertainment centers, phones...

People To Watch.
November 16, 2004... Decker Retakes Helm At Conexant Dwight Decker, chairman of broadband chip house Conexant Systems [CNXT], has returned to the post of CEO. Decker, who also will continue as chairman, had been CEO from the time that Conexant spun off from...

Deal Sheet.
November 16, 2004... Who's Doing What?: Westell Technologies Inc., [WSTL], headquartered in Aurora, Ill.; 630/898-2500 Expanded its ongoing supplier contract with BellSouth [BLS], headquartered in Atlanta; 404/249-2000 What To Expect Near-Term: Westell, a...

History Lesson: Brits Enshrine Their First Internet Exchange.
November 30, 2004... The switch used to build the United Kingdom's first Internet exchange - an event that happened just a brief 10 years ago - last Monday was enshrined at the Science Museum in South Kensington, London. The device, an early version of Cisco's...

How A Hong Kong ISP Will Be First To Offer Gigabit-To-The-Home.
November 30, 2004... While most people in the world can only hope for 5 Mb/s asymmetrical broadband in the near future, and just a relative handful can look forward to 20 Mb/s or faster delivered by such technologies as FTTx and ADSL2+, residents of Hong Kong are...

First All-Optical Switching System Ready For Market.
November 30, 2004... Lambda Opticalsystems has completed development of and has begun to market what are arguably the industry's first all-optical devices for building large metro and regional broadband networks. The news that Lambda had completed work on its...

Polish Telecom Software House Sales Soar.
November 30, 2004... Comarch [Warsaw Exchange: CMR], arguably the leading publicly traded telecom house in Poland, has reported 100.5 percent year-over-year sales growth for the third quarter of the year, to $27.5 million in the quarter. Net income was $800,000,...

Router Market In Quarterly Rebound.
November 30, 2004... The router market, in the doldrums earlier this year with a scant 1-percent growth in the second quarter, has rebounded with a healthier 7-percent growth in the September-ended quarter, according to a new report from the Synergy Research Group....

Taiwan PC Motherboard Company Leaps Into VoIP At 3 Cents A Minute.
November 30, 2004... Veteran Taiwanese motherboard maker Soyo [SOYO] jumped into the VoIP fray a couple of weeks ago to little note, which is hardly a surprise given the speed at which VoIP entrants have been popping up this year. By the latest count, there are now...

New To Market - Nov. 30, 2004.
November 30, 2004... Coaxsys Unveils In-Home IPTV System Coaxsys has come to market with an in-home IPTV distribution system that uses existing in-home coaxial cable, essentially the wiring from a cable TV system, rather than requiring new Cat 5 wiring. The...

People To Watch - Nov 30, 2004.
November 30, 2004... Conexant Shakes Up Top Management Lewis Brewster has been named executive vice president and COO of broadband chip house Conexant Systems [CNXT], barely a week after the company's chairman, Dwight Decker, returned to the post of CEO (BBF,...

World Wide Packets Names Engineering VP.
November 30, 2004... Bower Diamond has been name vice president of engineering at active Ethernet FTTx house World Wide Packets. Diamond had been responsible for product engineering at Gluon Networks and, before that, served as vice president of entering for...

WITSA Director Named To U.N. Internet Group.
November 30, 2004... Allen Miller, executive director of the World Information Technology Alliance (WITSA), has been named to the United Nation's newly created Working Group on Internet Governance. The working group was set up by mandate of the World Summit on the...

Scientific-Atlanta Readies New VoIP Adapters.
November 30, 2004... Scientific-Atlanta [SFA] is developing a new generation of VoIP adapters built around Broadcom [BRCM] chips and software. The deal is a continuation of a relationship between the two companies under which Scientific-Atlanta has been using...

Tiscali Turns To RAD TDMoIP Technology.
November 30, 2004... Tiscali France [TIS] is using RAD Data Communications' IPmux 16 to handle TDM over IP (TDMoIP) voice traffic over its IP network. The gear allows Tiscali to route both traditional voice traffic and IP-based data traffic over a single...

IPtimize Chooses Kagoor Border Controllers.
November 30, 2004... VoIP services provider IPtimize has deployed Kagoor Networks' VoiceFlow session border controllers. IPtimize is using the hardware to manage the VoIP services it provides to its small- to medium-sized business customers. >>Jim Greenway,...

Intellon, BridgeCo Partner For Music Over HomePlug.
November 30, 2004... Intellon and BridgeCo have joined forces to produce the reference design for an in-home, audio-distribution system that uses the HomePlug powerline broadband standard. The in-home system will allow users to plug in an adapter to any power...

Deal Sheet.
November 30, 2004... Who's Doing What?: Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) [employee owned], headquartered in San Diego, Calif.; 858/826-6000 Is selling its subsidiary Telcordia Technologies, headquartered in Piscataway, N.J.; 732/699-2000 To...