Broadband Business Forecast articles from October 2007

Broadband Business Forecast archives from October 2007

Cablecos Discover Muni Wireless.
October 2, 2007... In a recent Broadband Business Forecast feature, we examined the prospects for municipal wireless mesh (Broadband Business Forecast, Sept. 18) in light of the implosion of EarthLink. Most of that examination looked at muni mesh based on...

Broadband Take Rate Climbs At Rural Telcos.
October 2, 2007... Broadband take rates are climbing at rural telcos, according to this year's study by the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA) that surveyed its roughly 560 members, of which 175 provided detailed information about their...

Network-Management Maven NetScout Gobbles Up Network General.
October 2, 2007... Network performance monitoring and management specialist NetScout is buying privately held Network General, a post-event packet analysis specialist, in a $205 million cash, stock and debt deal that will result in a company roughly double the...

People To Watch 10/02/07.
October 2, 2007... * Optical networking hardware house BTI Photonic Systems has hired a pair of new vice presidents, reaching into competitors Juniper Networks and Ciena to expand its executive team. Named BTI vice president of solutions marketing is Gary...

CWA Sez: "Speed Matters".
October 2, 2007... Most assessments of the availability (or lack thereof) of broadband and the speed (or, again, the lack thereof) of that broadband are actually based on self-reporting by providers - the regular reports that must be filed with the Federal...

Alcatel-Lucent Grabs Interactive IPTV App Pioneer.
October 2, 2007... Alcatel-Lucent has gobbled up tiny Tamblin, a British 13-person outfit specializing in interactive IPTV applications that's started to turn heads with a string of wins in the U.K, starting at heavyweights BBC, BSkyB, the Disney Channel UK,...

Internet Taxation, Broadband Proliferation, E911 Heat The House.
October 16, 2007... Last week, the House Judiciary Committee passed a bill extending the Internet tax moratorium that is slated to expire Nov. 1. If signed, the bill (which now heads to the full House for a vote) would extend the moratorium on Internet access...

DSL Forum: IPTV Uses Soars As DSL Dominates.
October 16, 2007... Driven by growth in Europe, the number of IPTV viewers in the world spiked by 179 percent during the past year, according to new numbers compiled by researcher Point Topic for the DSL Forum. The Forum, of course, is most interested in how...

FTTH Council: Fiber To The Home Growing Fast.
October 16, 2007... The number of homes in North America now connected directly to fiber has passed the 2 million mark, more than double the number connected a year ago - and among the news is a growing use of fiber to the home (FTTH) for business as well as...

Infinera Tries For A Double Financial Dip.
October 16, 2007... Infinera has filed papers with the Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC) indicating it plans a secondary public offering - this time for a cool quarter of a billion dollars, more than it raked in earlier this year in its initial public...

Israeli Military Tech Could Triple 700 MHz WiMAX Bandwidth.
October 16, 2007... What once was top secret Israeli military technology is about to be launched, in modified form, as the only way known to as much as triple the usable data rate of the broadband that can be pumped over a 700 MHz wireless channel using...

People To Watch 10/16/07.
October 16, 2007... * The struggling Nokia Siemens Networks, which has been trying mightily to find its place in the world ever since Nokia and Siemens joined forces to create the unit, has named Eric Simonsen as its permanent CFO. Simonsen since June had been...

Vodafone Buy Into Spanish, Italian Broadband Markets.
October 16, 2007... Vodafone won the bidding for Tele2's broadband and fixed-line businesses in Spain and Italy, agreeing to pay a handsome $1.1 billion for the two units and making it clear that its target was the prospect for broadband growth. Tele2 had...

Zayo Adds Another Knot To The Acquisition String.
October 16, 2007... Zayo Bandwidth has closed on the third of what's planned to be a string of acquisitions of smaller bandwidth providers around the country, paying an undisclosed amount for Indiana Fiber Works (IFW). IFW adds 2,200 route miles of fiber,...

ATIS Creates GPON Standards Committee.
October 16, 2007... The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) has set up an Optical Access Network Subcommittee (OAN), tasked with maintaining standards, implementing agreements and providing technical reports for systems and associated...

It's About Time: 56-Percent FTTH Take Rate Predicted.
October 31, 2007... End users are just waiting to gobble up fiber to the home (FTTH), according to new predictions by ABI Research, whose crystal ball shows a take rate of more than 56 percent by 2011. The research house says it sees the demand for high-speed...

Broadband Speed Racers Go Faster, Faster.
October 31, 2007... Two key emerging technologies for shuttling broadband around a home or other building are getting faster - as much as a blazing 400 Mb/s - in a game of one-upmanship that shows no sign of abating. In essence, it's once again cableco versus...

Pirelli Buys Alcatel-Lucent Stake In Optical Modules Maker Avanex.
October 31, 2007... Alcatel-Lucent has divested its last vestige of ownership in the telecommunications optical modules business, the 12.4-percent stake in Avanex Corp. it walked away with in trade for its own (then-Alcatel owned) Alcatel Optronics optical...

Platinum Equity To Take Covad Private.
October 31, 2007... Platinum Equity has agreed to pay an estimated $304 million for broadband service provider Covad, taking advantage of Covad's recent financial weaknesses to pick up the company. The deal needs the approval of Covad shareholders but, by...

BPL House Telkonet Buys Into Geeks Services Outfit.
October 31, 2007... In-building broadband over powerline (BPL) specialist Telkonet purchased a 30-percent stake in on-site computer services provider Geeks On Call (which strongly prefers to be known by its current marketing identity of 1-800-905- GEEK) in an...

People To Watch 10/30/07.
October 31, 2007... * VoIP switching platform specialist Cedar Point Communications snagged industry veteran John Murphy for the post of executive vice president/worldwide sales. Murphy was most recently at Cantata Technology. As president of Excel Switching...

'Smart21' Intelligent Communities Named.
October 31, 2007... The votes are in, and the 21 communities around the world that will do battle to be named the Intelligent Community Forum's (ICF) Intelligent Community of 2008 have been chosen. And once again, five of the semi-finalists are U.S....

Company To Watch: Xtendwave Extends DSL.
October 31, 2007... Xtendwave - a small 35-person semi-stealth startup with its center in the great state of Texas led and staffed by a bunch of former Texas Instruments (TI) wizards - thinks it's invented one of the golden fleeces of broadband. It's taken the...