http://www.telecomweb.com TelecomWeb.com en-us 2008 Tue, 13 May 2008 21:31:02 EDT Procera Networks, with brand new management in place following years in the red, thinks it’s found the ticket for a phoenix-like turnaround – deep packet inspection (DPI) that it says beats the best now on the market and that had been mishandled internally for nearly two years.   All is not... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/broadband/260556.html Tue, 13 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT   Martin Dawes Systems, a British software and services vendor specializing in billing and subscriber-management solutions for the convergent communications market, has snagged one of the industry’s luminaries to sit on its board – Vodafone Co-Founder Sir Julian Horn-Smith.   Canadian... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/broadband/260557.html Tue, 13 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), in another of the now frequent analyses of what’s wrong with broadband in the United States, has ranked the country 15th on its own self-crafted broadband index and, in a comparative study of nine countries, has come up with what it thinks is... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/broadband/260558.html Tue, 13 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Beleaguered chipmaker Conexant Systems has sold off yet another of its broadband product lines, this time its pioneering HomePlug AV broadband over powerline (BPL) operation, which has been purchased by an overjoyed Israeli broadband maven, CopperGate Communications, which now brags it’s “the... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/broadband/260559.html Tue, 13 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Nokia-Siemens Networks has demonstrated 10.1 Mb/s downlink performance for its Internet High Speed Packet Access (I-HSPA) technology, the 3G technology its been plugging for nearly three years now as the bridge between HSPA and Long Term Evolution (LTE).   The working demo of super-fast I-HSPA, which... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/broadband/260560.html Tue, 13 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT The law firm of Gilbert Randolph LLC recently filed a class-action suit against Comcast in the Superior Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of its client, Dr. Sanford Sidner, and all Washington, D.C., citizens who have subscribed to Comcast's high-speed Internet service during the past three years... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/broadband/260561.html Tue, 13 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Multiple system operator (MSO) Cablevision has decided to build a massive $350 million Wi-Fi mesh, covering its customer base in the New York Metropolitan area, and offer the service free to its customer base of cable TV, business broadband, residential broadband and VoIP users. Eventually it may even start... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/broadband/260538.html Fri, 9 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Interconnection/local-access service provider FiberNet Telecom Group has outlined plans for a national network expansion, both beefing up its core network and extending its tentacles into new markets. The company outlined plans for the expansion, on which it's expecting to spend about $2 million, at the same... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/broadband/260542.html Fri, 9 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Pure-play VoIP market leader Vonage, in a widely anticipated report, this morning said it had narrowed its loss to just $8.9 million in the first quarter on a 15-percent boost in sales. However, it also reported dismal subscriber growth numbers and, in a major attempt to kick-start business, it announced it... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/broadband/260532.html Thu, 8 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT According to a new white paper released earlier today by Tropos Networks, it's more advantageous for municipalities to own their own wireless broadband networks than to "rent" service from another carrier. The paper, "Build Versus Rent: Why Municipal and Industrial Organizations Should Own... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/broadband/260533.html Thu, 8 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Wholesale long-haul, fiber-optic transport company USCarrier Telecom was vetted by the Department of Homeland Security to be part of the country's Wireless Priority Service (WPS). WPS, a key critical infrastructure in the event of a national or regional emergency, provides authorized federal, state and local... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/broadband/260535.html Thu, 8 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT One of the world's first and largest municipally owned fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks is being privatized, getting just about enough money to pay off the mountain of debt it incurred to build and operate during the past few years. Private FTTH network operator Broadweave Networks has agreed to pay the... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/broadband/260536.html Thu, 8 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT The municipal Wi-Fi network in downtown Scottsdale, Ariz., has gone dark, and the company running the network has disappeared. Service, which was launched with great ballyhoo barely 24 months ago at the brief height of hype for muni broadband, was turned off without notice. A post that appeared briefly on... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/broadband/260503.html Mon, 5 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT The European Commission (EC), reacting to a pan-European survey on electronic services in healthcare (which it’s dubbed “eHealth”), has issued a prescription for the continent’s doctors: Use more broadband.   According to the European study, “Benchmarking ICT Use Among... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/broadband/260468.html Wed, 30 Apr 2008 0:00:00 EDT Chip house Conexant Systems has bailed out of a second segment of the broadband market, selling off its Broadband Media Processing product lines to NXP Semiconductors for $110 million in cash and as much as $35 million in an “earn-out” fee.   The deal was disclosed simultaneously with... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/broadband/260469.html Wed, 30 Apr 2008 0:00:00 EDT With literally millions of miles of dark fiber now crisscrossing America, Ciena has teamed with telecom consulting house NEF to put together a service to help enterprise and carrier customers find all that buried dark fiber and figure out how to best use it.   Ciena’s hoping, of course, that its... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/broadband/260470.html Wed, 30 Apr 2008 0:00:00 EDT Overheard this week: “I’ll have a Big Mac to go with my Starbucks latte and, while we’re at it, throw in a couple of hours of wireless broadband, please.”   Well, not exactly. But pretty close.   While the latest disasters in the municipal Wi-Fi mesh arena were playing... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/broadband/260471.html Wed, 30 Apr 2008 0:00:00 EDT The United Powerline Association (UPA) has put out an industry-wide call for input into what is to be a set of specifications for 400 Mb/s and even faster broadband over power lines (BPL).   Unsaid in its “help wanted” plea is the fact the UPA is the trade group put together by BPL (or as it... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/broadband/260453.html Tue, 29 Apr 2008 0:00:00 EDT VoIP hardware house Sonus Networks purchased its operating support systems (OSS) software partner Atreus Systems, paying an undisclosed amount and bringing another piece of the IP voice puzzle in house.   Boston-based Sonus had been reselling Atreus’ software for about half a decade, but it... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/broadband/260454.html Tue, 29 Apr 2008 0:00:00 EDT   Conexant President and CEO Dan Artusi walked out the door after barely nine months on the job at the troubled communications chip house. Artusi, whose future plans were described simply as being “to pursue outside opportunities,” was brought in to try to turn around the company last year... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/broadband/260455.html Tue, 29 Apr 2008 0:00:00 EDT