http://telecomweb.com TelecomWeb.com en-us 2008 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 2:57:16 EDT   T3i Group LLC, parent company of TelecomWeb broadband, says Donald Stuart will join the firm’s InfoTech division as market research specialist. Stuart previously was a research director at Gartner Inc., where he focused on network services and collaboration technology. Earlier in his career, he... http://telecomweb.com/news/broadband/261256.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT A total of 34 telecom service providers have signed up for the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council’s network certification program – the program the council is attempting to establish as the “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval” for the FTTH industry – since the program was... http://telecomweb.com/news/broadband/261257.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Proxim Wireless is negotiating the possible sale of the money-losing Harmonix Division of its Terabeam Corporation subsidiary after declaring the unit’s products are “not core” to Proxim’s overall business – which includes wireless VoIP, last-mile access, enterprise LAN... http://telecomweb.com/news/broadband/261258.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT DuPont has traded ownership of its Photonics subsidiary plus $5 million in cash for $9.5 million worth of shares in Enablence Technologies, the Canadian outfit that’s emerged during the past two years as a conglomeration of a string of optical efforts.   The primary product made by DuPont... http://telecomweb.com/news/broadband/261259.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT The United States is now 100 years behind Japan in broadband speed – or, more accurately, at the current rate of increase of the median broadband speed in the United States, it’s going to take 100 years to catch up to the current speed available in Japan. Of course, one can only imagine what... http://telecomweb.com/news/broadband/261260.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT As reported two weeks ago (TelecomWeb news break, Aug. 5), T3i Group LLC, an investor-backed company formed by financier Richard Dorfman, is the new owner of TelecomWeb broadband's parent company the Telecom Intelligence Group, which includes TelecomWeb, Tarifica, TelecomTactics and InfoTech. As such, the... http://telecomweb.com/news/broadband/261261.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT by Hugh Carter Donahue, Ph.D.   With publicity approaching promotion of the second season of “Mad Men,” the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) singled out Comcast as a bad actor for offensively discriminating against its Internet subscribers’ access to the lawful Internet content... http://telecomweb.com/news/broadband/261262.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Comcast Corp.’s management of its broadband Internet networks, which contravenes federal policies that protect “the vibrant and open nature of the Internet,” got what amounts to a slap on the wrist from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)... http://telecomweb.com/news/broadband/261263.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Worldwide Number Two telepresence marketer Tandberg is in "preliminary talks" with an unidentified private-equity investor that wants to buy the company, and this sent Tandberg share prices soaring. As is typical in such cases, Tandberg was giving out few details and no guarantees. "The... http://telecomweb.com/news/broadband/261226.html Wed, 13 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT The global optical-networking market topped the $4 billion mark in the second quarter, but there may be trouble on the horizon because of an unexpected plunge in North American spending. According to research firm Ovum, global service-provider switching and routing equipment sales in 2Q08 grew to $3.4... http://telecomweb.com/news/broadband/261218.html Tue, 12 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT While hosted IP PBX is all the rage in some quarters, nearly half of the companies surveyed in a recent TelecomWeb Web-based Quick Poll aren’t interested, and fewer than 10 percent actually have a hosted service in place today.   A huge 40.6 percent of those responding to the poll said they... http://telecomweb.com/news/broadband/261202.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Pure-play VoIP market leader Vonage this morning said it had added only some 2,000 subs (net) in the second quarter, a stunning drop in growth from the heady days of little more than a year ago. The company reported a net loss of $7 million ($0.04 a share) on revenues of $228 million, up 11 percent from a... http://telecomweb.com/news/broadband/261185.html Thu, 7 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Delta Airlines has committed to become the first airline to put broadband on every flight it offers over the continental United States, signing with air-to-ground (ATG) in- flight broadband carrier Aircell. The deal, which will see Aircell's "Gogo" service offered on all 330 aircraft in Delta's... http://telecomweb.com/news/broadband/261172.html Wed, 6 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT LG-Nortel, the three-year-old joint venture between Nortel and South Korea’s LG Electronics, has bought Calif.-based optical Ethernet house Novera Optics, which specializes in the delivery of high-speed Carrier Ethernet services from optical core networks to customer premises – fiber to the user... http://telecomweb.com/news/broadband/261153.html Tue, 5 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Italian industrial giant Pirelli is merging its relatively small photonics group, PGT Photonics, into Indium Phosphide (InP) optical chip and component house CyOptics as the now years-long consolidation of optical broadband houses continues unabated.   Under the terms of the latest in what’s been... http://telecomweb.com/news/broadband/261154.html Tue, 5 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT The number of wireless broadband users will top 2.1 billion by 2015, according to new predictions by U.K. research house Analysys Mason. A vanishingly tiny 2 percent of global revenues will come from WiMAX, while Long Term Evolution (LTE) is growing fast. A majority still is using HSPA/HSPA+, which will by... http://telecomweb.com/news/broadband/261155.html Tue, 5 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT T3i Group LLC, an investor-backed company formed by financier Richard Dorfman, announced today that it has acquired the Telecom Intelligence Group (TIG) division of Access Intelligence, comprised of four operating units - TelecomWeb, Tarifica, TelecomTactics and InfoTech. The acquisition closed Aug. 1, 2008... http://telecomweb.com/news/broadband/261156.html Tue, 5 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT HughesNet Private Networks for small to mid-size businesses (SMBs) is the newest offering from broadband satellite services provider Hughes Network Systems. According to the Md.-based carrier, HughesNet Private Networks is a "secure and easy-to-deploy solution that provides private networking for the... http://telecomweb.com/news/broadband/261160.html Tue, 5 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT With so-called “net neutrality” a political football in the current elections, deep packet inspection (DPI) -- really the only technology around a service provider can use to determine what applications are jamming up a network -- has become almost as hot a topic.   Thus TelecomWeb broadband... http://telecomweb.com/news/broadband/261162.html Tue, 5 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., already a Top Five player in the U.S. IP PBX market just based on sales of its relatively small switches, is about to go after the high end of the market – aiming at Nortel, Avaya and Cisco with what will be Toshiba’s first 1,000-line class of IP... http://telecomweb.com/news/broadband/261163.html Tue, 5 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT