Broadband Business Forecast articles from October 2006

Broadband Business Forecast archives from October 2006

Bell Labs Breaks The 100 Gb/s Barrier.
October 4, 2006... Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs has done the broadband equivalent of breaking the sound barrier, demonstrating what is the first reported transmission of 10 channels of 107 Gb/s data over 2,000 kilometers of fiber. That's the equivalent of 1...

10 Gb/s Technology Crosses The Pond.
October 4, 2006... Hibernia Atlantic has laid claim to the distinction of becoming the first transatlantic transport provider to offer 10 Gb/s Ethernet LAN-PHY capacity across the Atlantic. The company says it is offering a full 10.31 Gb/s Ethernet...

Interop Wrap: Meet The 'Next Big Thing' In Broadband.
October 4, 2006... Allegedly the next "big thing" in networking, according to some folks, is what's being called "service oriented architecture" (SOA) - which includes broadband networks built to meet the needs of the applications running over them, indeed...

People To Watch (10/4/06).
October 4, 2006... Fujitsu Network Communications has appointed Satoshi Ikeuchi as president and CEO, replacing the retired Takanobu Yoden. Ikeuchi has been with Fujitsu since 1975, most recently as senior vice president of the Photonics Systems Group....

Verizon Expands European Ethernet Footprint.
October 4, 2006... Verizon has rolled its Business Private IP network into another half- dozen European countries. The carrier already had been offering IP network services in 10 European countries, and the offer now extends to enterprise customers in...

BroadLight Trades Transceivers For Royalties.
October 4, 2006... BroadLight has turned over its passive optical network (PON) transceiver product line to Delta Electronics in a move the company says will allow it "to focus 100 percent on PON controller development." Exact terms of the deal were not...

Motorola's Canopy Now Covers The Outback.
October 4, 2006... Australian ISP Internode has gone live with a partially solar-powered wireless broadband system built using Motorola Canopy gear. It blankets almost 100 percent of the State of South Australia's Coorong District, a 8,836-square- kilometer...

People To Watch (10/17/06).
October 17, 2006... Ray Blair, vice president for BPL Initiatives at IBM, has been elected technology co-chairman of the board of the United Power Line Council (UPLC), whose members consist of utilities and technology companies working to drive the development...

With Major Players In Place, IPTV Now Ready For Prime Time.
October 17, 2006... Lucent has gone to market with the commercial version of the IPTV software it took over from Spain's Telefonica, while Microsoft at almost the same time unveiled new set-top boxes (STBs) from a handful of vendors based on system-on-a-chip...

Azulstar's 'Wireless Boy Wonder' Looks At Muni Wi-Fi.
October 17, 2006... The same team that made headlines by capturing the high-prestige project to mesh all of Silicon Valley less than a month later has landed a similar contract, this time a Winston-Salem, N.C., municipal Wi-Fi mesh deal that could eventually...

Live From CompTel: Positing Wireless For CLEC Infrastructure.
October 17, 2006... Wireless wholesale providers and system/software makers last week continued to pitch the merits of RF infrastructure for U.S. competitive carriers to address local loop, backhaul and end-user Ethernet service gaps, but the primary challenges...

Motorola Raises A Ruckus.
October 17, 2006... Ruckus Wireless, which fashions itself as the leader in "smart-Wi-Fi" multimedia distribution systems, has picked up $16 million in what it calls "strategic" financing from the likes of Motorola Ventures and T-Online Ventures. Motorola...

The MEF Challenge: Get Tested For Carrier Ethernet.
October 31, 2006... The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), unveiling the latest of its growing suite of certifications for various aspects of Carrier Ethernet, has challenged carriers to submit their service offerings for testing of actual service delivery and...

Softswitch House Veraz Plans IPO, But Why?
October 31, 2006... VoIP house Veraz Networks has filed for a public offering, looking to raise as much as $115 million, although a chunk of the cash apparently will go to Israel's ECI Telecom, which is selling out an undisclosed part of its 40.9- percent stake...

Broadwing Pioneers MPLS Metered Billing.
October 31, 2006... Broadwing, which not many days ago agreed to be purchased by Level 3 for a handsome $1.4 billion in cash and stock (TelecomWeb news break, Oct. 17), is about to launch a new billing scheme for its converged MPLS service under which users...

Israeli PoE Pioneer Now California Dreamin'.
October 31, 2006... PowerDsine, the Israeli semiconductor startup that almost single-handedly created the concept of power-over-Ethernet (PoE), has fallen into the hands of California analog mixed-signal chip house Microsemi, which is paying what some see as a...

EV-DO Rev. A Comes To America.
October 31, 2006... Sprint has commercially launched Evolution-Data Optimization Revision A (EV-DO Rev. A) wireless broadband service in San Diego - the first known commercial launch of the high-speed wireless broadband service in the United States. The...

VoIP Inc. Unveils Survival Plan, Network Buildouts.
October 31, 2006... VoIP Inc. has completed what it calls the "initial phase" of a restructuring of its operations - a survival plan, if you will. At the same time, its key operating subsidiary Volo Communications completed the first phase of a network...

People To Watch (10/31/06).
October 31, 2006... >>BT has recruited JP Rangaswami as chief information officer for BT Global Services. Rangaswami comes to BT from investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, where he most recently headed the Alternative Market Models after serving five...