A ComNet coming-out party

At ComNet last week, a start-up company had its coming-out party with an enticing proposition: products that let carriers preprovision broadband Internet access for entire neighborhoods, leaving no other provisioning work except to have customers buy and plug in the company’s home broadband modems. Celite, an 18-month-old Austin, Texas, company claims it can cut the per-customer deployment cost for DSL from $275 to as low as $69 in areas where 40% of customers sign up for the service – savings providers could pass on to customers. Celite’s modem is designed to deliver DSL-like services over regular phone lines. It does this by employing multicast Ethernet over a proprietary very-high-speed DSL technology called VDSL+ to reach customer sites. Bandwidth delivery should rival the 386K bit/sec DSL residential service carriers offer now, as well as shared-bandwidth cable-modem services, Celite officials say. Story: http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2003/0127celite.html

At ComNet last week, a start-up company had its coming-out party with an enticing proposition: products that let carriers preprovision broadband Internet access for entire neighborhoods, leaving no other provisioning work except to have customers buy and plug in the company’s home broadband modems. Celite, an 18-month-old Austin, Texas, company claims it can cut the per-customer deployment cost for DSL from $275 to as low as $69 in areas where 40% of customers sign up for the service – savings providers could pass on to customers. Celite’s modem is designed to deliver DSL-like services over regular phone lines. It does this by employing multicast Ethernet over a proprietary very-high-speed DSL technology called VDSL+ to reach customer sites. Bandwidth delivery should rival the 386K bit/sec DSL residential service carriers offer now, as well as shared-bandwidth cable-modem services, Celite officials say.

Story:

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2003/0127celite.html

Also at ComNet, TeleGea added reporting and analysis capabilities to its service-provisioning software. The enhancements, called Service Delivery Assurance, monitor provisioning and service-ordering processes, and examine provisioning efficiency. Based on this analysis, providers can then fine-tune their service offerings to make them even more efficient, TeleGea says.

Story:

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2003/0127telegea.html

Consolidation in our industry is not confined to vendors and service providers. Even our hallowed forums are susceptible. The MPLS Forum and the Frame Relay Forum are planning to merge by March 31, pending approval of their respective members. The combination will result in technical synergies, operational efficiencies and reduced cost, forum manager AMS apparently hopes. Frame relay access into MPLS cores is coming into vogue, so the forums want to align their work. The result will be a 76-member organization that up to now only had a handful of overlapping participants.

Story:

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2003/0129forummerge.html