Broadband Business Forecast articles from November 2007

Broadband Business Forecast archives from November 2007

Company To Watch: Aztek Backs Up VoIP.(Company overview)
November 13, 2007... One of the big attractions of replacing traditional telephony with IP- based voice communications - voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) - is that a carrier can drastically slash the number of switches needed in its network. But that coin has...

Canadian Business WISP Makes Cross-Border Foray.
November 13, 2007... Wireless broadband provider MetroBridge Networks International, in its second foray "south of the border," is buying Utah Broadband LLC of Salt Lake City for $5.4 million in cash and stock. The deal, expected to close early next year,...

DSL Forum Rationalizes Its Specs.
November 13, 2007... The DSL Forum, admitting that figuring out which of its dozens and dozens of specifications apply to a given situation can be a bit of an exercise in head-scratching, has crafted what it calls a "BroadbandSuite Release Plan" that puts some...

India Fiber House Plans To Double Output.
November 13, 2007... India's premier fiber-optic manufacturer Sterlite Technologies Limited, which lays claim to a 4-percent share of the world's fiber market - and 45 percent of the exploding Indian market - says it's decided to double its manufacturing...

Forget The Last Train - Clarksville Rides The Light Now.
November 13, 2007... While most of the recent attention to municipal broadband has focused on Wi-Fi mesh because of the spectacular failures in that area - and we all know that bad news sells newspapers - the installation of government-owned fiber, usually all...

BBF Analysis: Fiber Tops WiMAX In Aussie Election.
November 27, 2007... To most observers around the world, during last week's election in Australia, in which long-serving Conservative leader John Howard was ousted by new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his Labor Party, the biggest issues were things like the war...

People To Watch 11/28/07.
November 27, 2007... * Wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) transport technologies house Novera Optics has recruited John Barton as its CEO. Barton comes to Novera from Flextronics, where he was vice president and general manager. * Turin Networks, a...

BPL Chip Startup Gigle Banks $20M In New Funding.
November 27, 2007... Gigle Semiconductor, the curiously named startup that's working on what would be the world's first 1 Gb/s broadband over powerline (BPL) chip, has pulled in another $20 million in venture capital to fund its development efforts. The...

IMS Declared Ready For Prime Time.
November 27, 2007... IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) technology has made the grade and is production-ready, the IMS Forum has concluded, following a recent "plugfest" - the third of its kind - at which the Forum issued what it called a "report card" on how the...

Optimum Ethernet Tops 2,500 Buildings In The Big Apple.
November 27, 2007... Cable company Cablevision's business broadband subsidiary Optimum Lightpath has lit up fiber to its 2,500th building in the New York City region - something of a record in Carrier Ethernet deployments. "Optimum Lightpath's success in...

FCC Rural Broadband Initiative Aims To Improve Healthcare.
November 27, 2007... Broadband deployment is one of the Federal Communications Commission's top priorities - particularly in rural America. And nowhere is the need for broadband greater than in rural healthcare, it says, where isolated clinics can save lives by...