BCD Forum Sets Mandate for Accelerated Broadband Service Deployment for Industry Profitability.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 2002 Newly Elected Board Members from Alcatel Alcatel Société Alsacienne de Constructions Atomiques, de Télécomunications et d'Electronique , Allegro (operating system) Allegro - The code name for the major Mac OS release due in mid-1998. http://devworld.apple.com/mkt/informed/appledirections/mar97/roadmap.html. Networks, Aliant Telecom, Hewlett-Packard, Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony , SkyStream Networks, and Sprint Set Forum's Direction The BCD (Binary Coded Decimal) The storage of numbers in which each decimal digit is converted into binary and is stored in a single character or byte. For example, a 12-digit number would take 12 bytes. See binary numbers. Forum, the only independent industry association that serves the entire value chain of the broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). industry, today announced the new slate of officials elected to the Board of Directors. The board, consisting of representatives from Alcatel, Aliant Telecom, Allegro Networks, Hewlett-Packard, Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks, SkyStream Networks and Sprint, will focus on accelerating the pace of broadband service See broadband and broadband service provider. deployment. The Forum takes a "show-me" approach, by focusing on actual deployments of broadband applications and demonstrating that the necessary technologies and standards are in place - they need only be deployed for profitable services, as demonstrated by the Forum's successful multi-vendor "billing to set-top box The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. " network at Supercomm 2002 (http://www.bcdforum.org/supercomm2002). "It is time for the industry to move on from discussion and debate, into actual deployment of profitable services. This transition will act as a catalyst for greater broadband deployment and revenue generation across wireline and wireless networks," said Marie Hattar, incoming chair of the BCD Forum. As the Forum begins its third year, it continues to attract new members across service providers, content developers, and vendors in both the wireline and wireless spaces. Its message is even more relevant in today's economic climate, where the industry seeks profitability from costly broadband deployments. The BCD Forum's Board of Directors includes: -- Chair Marie Hattar, Nortel Networks, Director of Enterprise and Security Marketing (www.nortelnetworks.com) -- Vice Chairman Wil Walkoe, Sprint, Director of Advanced Technology (www.sprint.com) -- Secretary Robert Hess, Lucent Technologies, Director of Strategic Alliances (www.lucent.com) -- Treasurer Phaik-Foon Kamp, Hewlett-Packard, Strategy and Business Development (www.hp.com) -- Officer Dave Ginsburg, Allegro Networks, Vice President of Marketing (www.allegronetworks.com) -- Officer David Mayes, Independent Consultant -- Officer Joe Mosher, Aliant Telecom, Director of Strategy and Business Development (www.aliant.ca) -- Officer Scott Robinson, Alcatel, Director of Carrier Service Market Development (www.alcatel.fr) -- Officer Tom Sauer, SkyStream Networks, Director of Business Development and Strategic Alliances (www.skystream.com) Next BCD Forum Meeting The next meeting will be held on September 18-19, 2002 in Halifax, Nova Scotia For other uses, see Halifax. Halifax, Nova Scotia may refer to any of the following:
About The BCD Forum The BCD Forum is an independent, non-profit trade association that addresses the business of broadband. Members, which include some of the most important players in the broadband industry, work collaboratively to identify the issues, options and opportunities associated with monetizing broadband networks  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. and to demonstrate that multi-vendor solutions can profitably deliver content-rich consumer and business services across both wireline and wireless networks. The membership consists of network service providers, content delivery providers, content developers and hardware and software developers focused on DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary , cable, satellite, broadcast, telecom and Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the technologies. For more information, please visit www.bcdforum.org. |
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