Broadband Business Forecast articles from November 2006

Broadband Business Forecast archives from November 2006

Colorado Towns Band Together In Muni Wireless Bid.
November 14, 2006... A consortium of 10 Colorado cities, with a combined population of 620,000, has become the latest in the United States to decide to provide their residents with low-cost wireless broadband. And like so many others, the cities want to do it...

America Faces Afghanistan Again In Intelligent Community Contest.
November 14, 2006... The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) has taken the wraps off the 21 nominees for next year's title of Intelligent Community Of The Year and, once again, it's America versus Afghanistan. An Afghan agency, it will be recalled, aced the...

Optical Industry Searches For A Cheaper Way To 40 Gb/s.
November 14, 2006... A powerful combine of nine optical broadband companies has forged a working group to define what will be a multi-sourced implementation of 40 Gb/s technology - a move the group hopes will result in significantly slashing the cost of 40 Gb/s...

Occam Snags More Capital.
November 14, 2006... Broadband loop carrier vendor Occam Networks has raised $48.3 million in new working capital in a secondary offering. The cash looks to be the capital the company needs now that triple play suddenly is getting hot, and Occam is right in the...

People To Watch (11/14/06).
November 14, 2006... >>Kristina M. Johnson, dean of Duke University's Edmund T. Pratt Jr., School of Engineering, has been appointed to the Nortel board. >>Margaret "Maggie" Bellville has joined the board at broadband access equipment house Vyyo Inc....

Executive Q&A: Swisscom CEO Tells All About Microsoft.(Company overview)
November 14, 2006... After much delay, Swisscom finally launched its IPTV service in Switzerland at the end of last month (TelecomWeb news break, Oct. 31) - a launch that was one of the most closely watched in the IPTV world because the operator was the first...

Korea's SK Telecom Buys Into Canada's Wavesat.
November 14, 2006... South Korea's SK Telecom has taken an equity position of undisclosed size in Canadian wireless chip house Wavesat - one of only 12 companies in the world that can so far legitimately claim the right to use the WiMAX logo on its products. ...

Fiber Vs. Satellite: Pass The DTM Please, And Forget The MPEG.
November 28, 2006... Between the rapid onslaught of IPTV and the death throes of analog TV as Europe, the United States and other places around the world move to digital TV, there's something of a perfect broadband video storm brewing around the world - and...

BPL Company To Watch: Corinex Plays It Both Ways.
November 28, 2006... With predictions that 2007 will be the hottest year yet for broadband over power line (BPL), an unexpected trend appears to be emerging: More and more device makers are embracing both of the competing BPL architectures vying for industry...

NeoPhotonics Grabs Tunable Laser Start-Up Paxera.
November 28, 2006... NeoPhotonics has picked up tuneable laser startup Paxera Corp. for an undisclosed amount of cash and stock in a move to fill a hole in its dense wave division multiplexer (DWDM) product line. In particular, it's targeting the...

GI Partners Buys 'Meet Me' Specialist tel(x).
November 28, 2006... Privately owned tel(x) Group, Inc., which operates two of the most heavily populated "meet-me-room" network interconnection facilities, has been purchased by GI Partners, a trans-Atlantic private equity firm. Terms of the deal were not...

People To Watch (11/28/06).
November 28, 2006... >>Ericsson has named the entire executive lineup for its new three-unit organizational structure that goes into effect Jan. 1, 2007. As reported (TelecomWeb news break, Sept. 15), in a move it says is designed to accelerate R&D in multimedia...