Broadband Business Forecast articles from September 2004

Broadband Business Forecast archives from September 2004

Broadband By The Numbers: A Visit To Hong Kong.
September 7, 2004... Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA), which keeps unusually detailed records of just about every Internet connection in the former British colony, just released its latest statistical update - and it's claiming a...

Stealthy Startup Targets Wired/Wireless Convergence.
September 7, 2004... The expected convergence of wired and wireless broadband networks into a unified access network has spawned its first known startup, a little fab-less semiconductor company named SiNett. The outfit has been beavering away in relative obscurity...

Certified: First Wi-Fi Products With Beefed-Up Security.
September 7, 2004... The Wi-Fi Alliance late last week handed out the first WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access) certifications to products from half a dozen companies. WPA2, which is based on the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) 802.11i...

Reborn Redback Brings Broadband To War-Torn Bosnia.
September 7, 2004... Strife-riddled Bosnia Herzegovina is getting a nationwide broadband and IP network as part of its rebuilding effort - and the winner of the key hardware contract is Redback Networks [RBAK], itself in the rebuilding stages following its...

$9M Opportunity Up For Grabs.
September 7, 2004... The board of North Carolina ILEC CT Communications [CTCI] approved a $9 million upgrade for the company's DSL capabilities. The upgrade is designed to offer 10 Mb/s service to all current CT customers receiving broadband via DSL or cable modem....

Philadelphia Aims For Net Freedom.
September 7, 2004... Philadelphia Mayor John Street appointed a committee dubbed "Wireless Philadelphia" to explore a plan to build a municipally funded wireless mesh that would blanket the city's 135 square miles, using thousands of Wi-Fi hot spots mounted on...

Deal Sheet.
September 7, 2004... Who's Doing What?: Flextronics International Ltd [FLEX], headquartered in Singapore; 011 65 62998888 Is buying everything -- lock, stock and code - belonging to Future Software Limited [privately held], headquartered in Chennai (Madras),...

What The FCC Told Congress About Broadband.
September 21, 2004... By a 3-2 vote, the Federal Communications Commission decided that the progress of broadband growth in the United States is just fine, thank you. The conclusion came in the FCC's fourth report to Congress on the Availability of Advanced...

Stocking The Broadband Value-Added Arsenal With Backup.
September 21, 2004... With many experts advising that the real goldmine in broadband is going to be the revenue from, and profit on, the value-added services that broadband enables, five-year-old backup storage house Arsenal Digital Solutions Worldwide is rushing to...

Worldwide Broadband Passes 123-Million Mark.
September 21, 2004... The total number of broadband lines worldwide passed the 123 million-mark by June 30, according to new estimates by U.K. research house Point Topic, an increase of almost 55 percent when compared with the figures a year earlier. DSL...

AT&T Promises To Deliver 5Nines IP.
September 21, 2004... AT&T [T] has upped the ante for competition in the enterprise IP services market with a promise of end-to-end 99.999-percent (5Nines) availability, starting in the middle of next month along with service level agreements (SLAs) to back up its...

Certifications Start For Wi-Fi With QoS.
September 21, 2004... The Wi-Fi Alliance certified the first flush of products for compliance with its new Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) specifications, an extension of Wi-Fi that adds quality of service (QoS) features that are needed for the use of Wi-Fi with such...

Deal Sheet.
September 21, 2004... Who's Doing What?: Cisco [CSCO], headquartered in San Jose, Calif.; 408/526-4000 Is on a bit of a buying binge and is picking up both NetSolve [NTSL], headquartered in Austin, Texas; 512/340-3000 And Dynamicsoft [privately held],...