Tuesday, August 26, 2003

Surveillance Ingram spies potential in surveillance. The giant distributor of information-technology products steps into the surveillance market, in a move to provide one-stop shopping for its resellers and customers. [CNET News.com] 12:59:13 PM    comment []

Friday, August 22, 2003

UNE-P Rules From FCC The FCC released it's 576 page order on UNE-P yesterday. It's hard to tell whether there are any surprises in such a massive thing, but it doesn't appear so. This is the link to the order [ http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2003/db0821/FCC-03-36A1.pdf] And this is Chairman Powell's comment [http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2003/db0821/FCC-03-36A2.pdf] F.C.C. Discloses New Rules for Telecom Industry. The rules elaborate on an F.C.C. decision that local telephone companies must share older equipment but not newer technology dedicated to high-speed data. By Jennifer Lee. [New York Times: Technology] 12:18:49 PM    comment []

Wednesday, August 06, 2003

SBC WiFi Deal With Wayport Reacting to Verizon's previous wifi announcements, SBC is now getting into the act. SBC, Wayport sign hot spot deal. The telecommunications giant becomes the latest major company to ink an agreement that will let its customers use Wayport's 650 Wi-Fi hot spots across the nation. [CNET News.com] 12:52:00 PM    comment []

Monday, July 21, 2003

RBOC Broadband Plans Some Bet the Broadband Belongs to Regional Bells, Not Cable. Spurred by an onslaught from cable operators and buoyed by a recent regulatory ruling, the regional phone companies are aggressively expanding their broadband services. By Bernard Simon. [New York Times: Technology] 12:24:27 PM    comment []

Tuesday, July 08, 2003

Alloptic Patents Alloptic announced today that they have been awarded U.S. Patent 6,470,032 for "transporting legacy time division multiplexing (TDM) services over Ethernet-based passive optical networks (EPON)." 4:47:21 PM    comment []

Tuesday, June 10, 2003

VONAGE Vonage is claiming the first "direct-to-consumer" deal for VoIP telephony with a cable MSO. 3:35:51 PM    comment []

Thursday, June 05, 2003

Telecom Industry Launches DSLHome Initiative DSL Forum launched a new initiative at Supercom to challenge the cable industry for dominance of the Home Network. It's called "DSLHome" and is described in there press release as follows: "DSLHome has two components: technical innovation and support, as well as market awareness and promotion. This two-tiered approach in tandem with DSL Forum's drive toward fully interoperable equipment will create a real broadband DSL mass market with low consumer prices and simple setup of high-speed broadband powered home networks. As part of this program, the DSL Forum has initiated new technical work to address some key areas: LAN side DSL customer premise equipment (CPE) configuration specifications Dual port router requirements WAN-side DSL CPE management specifications Interface & System configuration for ADSL on customer premises Privacy and Protection Security In addition to this technical work, the DSL Forum will be launching programs to improve users’ knowledge of DSL powered home networks, and equip these users to make educated home network decisions and broadband choices. The first outcome of this effort is a pair of home networking user guides, currently under development and scheduled to be released in 4Q03. " 1:15:08 PM    comment []

DSL Growth The DSL Forum announced that broadband DSL experienced its largest quarterly increase ever, adding 5.5 million new DSL subscribers worldwide in Q1- 2003. They estimate that there are now 41.3 million DSL subscribers worldwide [residential and business] and they are projecting this to grow to 200 million by 2005. 1:08:47 PM    comment []

Thursday, May 29, 2003

RBOCs FTTH RFP Bell South, Verizon and SBC put out press releases today announcing a "joint RFP" for FTTH equipment. Here are the three versions of this announcement: Verizon http://newscenter.verizon.com/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=80434 SBC http://www.sbc.com/press_room/1,5932,31,00.html?query=20507 Bell South http://bellsouthcorp.com/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=43087 4:11:11 PM    comment []

Wednesday, May 28, 2003

Cisco Announces TWC VoIP Win Cisco announced today that Time Warner Cable "is now delivering the first Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) cable primary-line residential telephone service, Digital Phone, to customers in Portland, Maine. Using the industry-leading Cisco® Internet Protocol (IP) voice solution" Here's the article in telephony online about this announcement. http://telephonyonline.com/ar/telecom_time_warner_cable/index.htm 9:59:27 AM    comment []

Friday, May 16, 2003

Alcatel acquires ImagicTV ImagicTV has a TV software platform that is deployed mainly in DSL platforms. Alcatel is acquiring them as part of their effort to complete the "triple-play" with DSL. 4:51:08 PM    comment []

Ananex acquiring Alcatel and Corning Optical Units Avanex is acquiring the optical businesses of Corning and Alcatel for stock representing about 45% of Avanex's value or $65 million. They are acquiring optical components, modules and subsystems for fiber optic transmission networks that should enable Avanex to offer one of the broadest lines of optical and intelligent photonic solutions for enhancing speed and capacity of optical communications systems. Avanex products will now include optical wavelength generation and modulation, multiplexing and demultiplexing, signal amplification, wavelength routing and dispersion compensation. 4:41:13 PM    comment []

Monday, May 05, 2003

Broadband High Speed Data Prices Falling Verizon announced that it would use promotions to lower pricing and attract new subscribers to its bundled Telephone & DSL services. Verizon's standard DSL pricing is $49.95 per month. Promotion includes: New subscriber promotional rate for DSL of $29.95 for the first 6 months. The promotion expires on 5/20/03. Bundled subscribers [those who take DSL + any level of local telephony] get a discount of $15 per month from the regular DSL rate [effectively pricing DSL at $34.95 for DSL]. Bundled subscribers that take Verizon's premium $59.95 per month Veriation Freedom package (full featured plan with unlimited local and long-distance telephone) + DSL get an extra $5 per month discount on DSL reducing the DSL price to $29.95 per month. 11:35:20 AM    comment []

Friday, April 04, 2003

The Work Foundation iSociety Project Research Cost 'barrier' to future phones. A study of how real people interact with their mobiles reveals that third generation phones might not take off as the operators hope. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]   10:34:41 AM    comment []

SBC Rumored To Be Out Of DirecTV Bidding Siting sources close to the negotiations a number of news organizations are reporting today that SBC has dropped out of the bidding for DirecTV. SBC Drops Out of Bidding for Hughes and DirecTV. SBC Communications dropped out of bidding for Hughes Electronics and its DirecTV satellite television operation. By Andrew Ross Sorkin. [New York Times: Technology] http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/5539187.htm [San Jose Mercury News] 10:24:59 AM    comment []

Thursday, April 03, 2003

VoIP Over WiFi Two interesting players in the VoIP space [Calypso Wireless Inc. and VoiceTech Communications Corp. USA] announced a licensing agreement related to technology for delivering WiFi wireless VoIP services to cellular handsets. Calypso had also previously announced a large project in China ( http://www.nasdaq.com//asp/quotes_news.asp?pageName=Company%20News&;selected=CLYW&consumer=NDQ&StoryTargetFrame=_top&market=Other%20OTC&coname=CALYPSO%20WIRELESS%20INC&symbol=CLYW&cpath=20030206%5C200302060815CTXBIZ34330565.htm) 1:27:53 PM    comment []

DSL Conference Says xDSL "Video Is Ready" A premsis of this Pulver.com "Fast Net" conference is that DSL is "ready" for video. 1:21:42 PM    comment []

Friday, March 28, 2003

DirecTV Bidders Now Include Cablevision According to this article in Forbes, the bidders for DirecTV now include Cablevision, News Corp. Liberty and SBC, http://www.forbes.com/newswire/2003/03/27/rtr922735.html 10:52:42 AM    comment []