Broadband Business Forecast articles from September 2006

Broadband Business Forecast archives from September 2006

How To Make Broadband Hot: Microwave It.
September 6, 2006... Talk about the growth in wireless broadband bandwidth today and the sexy stuff is perhaps 802.16 wireless metropolitan area networks (MANs) (what's being called WiMAX) or any of a few other competing technologies whose proponents hope to...

Toshiba Goes All The Way With VoIP.
September 6, 2006... It's the end of an era - or the start of a new one. It all depends on how one looks at it. Toshiba has replaced the last non-Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) PBX in its product line with a shiny new VoIP-based widget, becoming the first...

Omron Buys Rival FTTH Coupler Business.
September 6, 2006... Omron Corporation has cut a preliminary agreement with NHK Spring Co. Ltd. to acquire NHK Spring's rival fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) optical coupler business. The result, Omron thinks, will be a combined Japanese and U.S. optical coupler...

People To Watch 09/06/06.
September 6, 2006... Vittorio Colao will join the Vodafone board Oct. 9 as chief executive of Vodafone's European region. Colao has been CEO of Italian publishing and media company RCS MediaGroup for the last two years, but before that he was a Vodafone...

Tasmania Readies Broadband Assault On Telstra.
September 6, 2006... The government of Australia's Tasmania, which for more than three years has been stuck with a Tasmanian devil of a dilemma surrounding 500 kilometers of dark fiber it didn't really want to own in the first place, will seek bidders to turn...

MoCA Certifies Its First FTTH Terminals.
September 6, 2006... The Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) has certified its first two pieces of hardware to terminate fiber to the home (FTTH). Existence of such widgetry - the first two are from Motorola and Tellabs - is critical to MoCA's chances of being...

NeoPhotonics Buying Binge Continues.
September 6, 2006... Fiber-optic component house NeoPhotonics, continuing a buying binge that started earlier this year with the acquisition of a pair of smaller optics component houses and of a rich patent portfolio, has gobbled up BeamExpress, a specialist in...

Lucent, Alcatel Share A Dutch Treat.
September 6, 2006... Lucent and Alcatel, soon to be a single company if all goes according to plan, have scored twin wins at KPN as part of the Netherlands-based incumbent's program to build an all-IP next generation network (NGN). Lucent has been hired to...

China Soon To Top U.S. In Broadband Penetration.
September 6, 2006... The Sleeping Giant is awakening - by the end of this year there will be more broadband subscribers in China than in the United States, according to estimates this week by U.K. research house Ovum. As of this moment, there are more...

BBF Analysis: Motorola Spreads Its 'Canopy' Over BPL.
September 19, 2006... Motorola has jumped into the broadband over powerline (BPL) market with an offering that combines BPL with its market-leading Canopy fixed broadband as the "preferred" last-mile delivery method. The move is hardly a shocking surprise -...

Final Fight Looms In Broadband Battle Of The Bayou.
September 19, 2006... The Louisiana city of Lafayette has gone to the state's Supreme Court in what now looks like it will be the final chapter in the city's battle to win the right to build its own municipal fiber network. The ruling, whichever way it goes, is...

Intel Sheds Optical-Networking Components.
September 19, 2006... Intel has sold off its optical network product line to Cortina Systems Inc., a relatively unknown startup. The divestiture is just a tiny part of the sweeping overhaul Intel announced earlier this month. Five-year-old Cortina reportedly...

Company To Watch: Jamcracker Delivers On Demand.
September 19, 2006... During the last few years of the twentieth century, there was a craze surrounding what was then the infant industry called "application service provider (ASP)" - a business built on the delivery of software as a service (SaaS) rather than on...

People To Watch (09/18/06).
September 19, 2006... >>Canada's Telecommunications Hall of Fame has disclosed the names of six telecom pioneers and industry leaders who will be inducted in 2006, including the putative inventor of the walkie-talkie, Donald L. Hings of Burnaby, British Columbia....

Aussies Seek 'Clever' Broadband Ideas.
September 19, 2006... The Australian government has put out a call to the broadband industry to put on its aggregate thinking cap and come up with "clever" ideas of how to use broadband to improve life in the great outback. The lure is $85 million in contracts...

BBF Tests Flash VoIP: Nero Fiddles While Skype Burns.
September 19, 2006... Skype's attempt to counter Vonage's sexy little flash-memory stick "phone" has been stymied by the highly popular Nero CD/DVD authoring package and other similar software, according to tests by Broadband Business Forecast. The fault, it...