Broadband Business Forecast articles from September 2007

Broadband Business Forecast archives from September 2007

Level 3 Vets Crafting New Bandwidth Provider.(Company overview)
September 6, 2007... A pair of former Level 3 veterans, armed with a $225 million acquisition war chest, have begun buying up small bandwidth providers around the country and forging them into a new larger company they've christened Zayo Bandwidth. So far,...

ATIS Plans 'Shocking' Broadband Study.
September 6, 2007... ATIS has decided to conduct a study of the effects of surge-protection techniques on ADSLx and VDSLx services in terms of signal degradation. The study, to be done by ATIS' Network Interface, Power, and Protection Committee (NIPP)'s...

Special Report: Cable Bandwidth, Schmandwidth.
September 6, 2007... Broadband Business Forecast's sister publication Communications Technology recently took a look at the bandwidth "crisis" in the cable industry as it attempts to compete with the onslaught of a telephone industry moving onto its turf with...

BirdStep Feathers Its Nest With Another Acquisition.
September 6, 2007... Mobile IP specialist BirdStep Technology ASA is buying the 45 percent of Norwegian mobile VoIP startup VoiceRoaming Technology AS it doesn't already own, trading $2.4 million of its stock for the equity. VoiceRoaming was created in the...

Two Dozen Vendors Test Carrier Ethernet Interoperability.
September 6, 2007... In a technological tour de force, 24 vendors have shown up at the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) in Berlin for what is being touted as the "most diverse Carrier Ethernet multi-vendor interoperability demonstration ever...

M2Z Loses Broadband Battle...For Now.
September 6, 2007... M2Z Networks, NetfreeUS LLC, NextWave Broadband Inc., Commnet Wireless LLC, McElroy Electronics Corp., Open Range Communications Inc. and TowerStream Corporation saw their proposals to build a nationwide wireless broadband network via...

District Court Upholds Broadband Gag Rule.
September 6, 2007... The Center for Public Integrity's lawsuit to obtain broadband records from the Federal Communication Commission was denied in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle on the grounds that public...

The Real Push For Internet Tax Freedom Begins.
September 18, 2007... The U.S. Department of Justice has cautioned against imposing regulations that could hamper the development of the Internet and related services in response to a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Notice of Inquiry regarding broadband...

Lucent/Bell Labs EPON Heir Crashes.
September 18, 2007... Amedia Networks, the little outfit that took over what had been Lucent's Ethernet PON (EPON) technology back in 2004, looks to have crashed and burned. Everyone but the CEO and CFO - neither of whom were reachable by post time - have...

BBF Analysis: Is Muni Wi-Fi Dead Or Is It Just EarthLink?
September 18, 2007... The EarthLink death watch, following its "little" downsizing - half the company gone in a single swoop (TelecomWeb news break, Aug. 29) - begs the inevitable question of just who or what is really dying. Is it municipal Wi-Fi, is it Wi-Fi...

Intel Divests Communications Platform Business.
September 18, 2007... Intel has sold off the last big chunk left of its single-board computer business - its modular communications platform business - to RadiSys Corp. The sale ends what's been a quarter century in that business for Intel, which says it wants to...

VCs Plow More Cash Into 'EtherBurst' Optical Startup.
September 18, 2007... Optical switching startup Matisse Networks, which claims its "EtherBurst" technology can be used to build metro aggregation networks that will scale from 10 Gb/s to 640 Gb/s, has picked up $45 million in third-round venture funding. The...

DS2 BPL Update: Telcos & Standards.
September 18, 2007... Broadband over powerline (BPL) house DS2, in large part on the strength of a win at BT, is claiming a 70-percent share of the nascent carrier market for BPL use to distribute IPTV around homes. It says it's already shipped 200,000 chips for...

DSL Forum Now Focuses On IPTV.
September 18, 2007... At a regular quarterly meeting, the DSL Forum laid out an ambitious work plan to expedite IPTV standards and best practices, creating an IPTV Oversight Committee. "The successful mass deployment of IPTV is at the top of the DSL Forum's...

'Inventory Correction' Blamed For Optical Component Decline.(Correction notice)
September 18, 2007... Sales of optical components fell 5 percent in the second quarter of 2007, the second quarter in a row of declines, according to new estimates by Ovum RHK. Total sales for the quarter were $936 million, Ovum says, both 5 percent lower than in...

People To Watch 9/18/07.
September 18, 2007... * Italian VoIP hardware and services house Italtel has hired industry veteran Giorgio Bertolina as its CEO. Most recently, Beroklina was CEO of Italian ICT company Enterprise Digital Architects, but he's best known as the chairman and CEO of...