The multi-billion dollar revenue potential of business services for the cable industry will be the subject of discussion when experts from Charter Communications, Sanford C. Bernstein and Co., Inc., Sprint Nextel and Vyyo Inc. convene for a CED Magazine Webcast tomorrow.
"T1, Cellular Backhaul and Wireless -- Steering Cable's New Revenue Drivers" will discuss the ability of cable system operators to capitalize on the largely-untapped business services market as a means of maintaining growth in the face of increasing satellite and telco competition.
The Webcast will be held Tuesday, March 14 at 11 a.m. ET at http://www.CEDmagazine.com/webcast. Scheduled panelists include:
-- Robert Carter, vice president, Charter Business, Southeast Division;
-- Craig Moffett, vice president and senior analyst, Sanford C.
Bernstein & Co., Inc.;
-- Bruce Hoffman, corporate director, Wireline Access and Backhaul
Technology Architecture, Sprint Nextel
-- Steve Santamaria, senior vice president and general manager,
business services, Vyyo Inc.
Jeff Baumgartner, editor-in-chief, CED Magazine, will serve as moderator.
"A successful business services strategy begins with making that entire market sector a priority," said Santamaria. "Our discussion will explore the need to create a separate business services structure within your organization, the economics and payback of T1 over coax delivery, and ways in which operators can leverage their HFC plant to backhaul cellular traffic."
Kagan Research, LLC estimates that 60 percent of business in the United States will be passed by cable by 2009, and that total revenue for commercial data and voice services will exceed $10.7 billion within the same time frame. GeoResults, Inc., a telecom database marketing and consulting firm, estimates that cellular backhaul will be a $20 billion business through 2010.
About Vyyo Inc.
Vyyo provides cable and wireless broadband access solutions. Our products are designed for use by cable television and telecommunication operators, wireless internet service providers (ISPs), utilities and enterprise. Our cable solutions include cable system spectrum overlay solutions designed to expand cable operators' typical HFC (hybrid-fiber coax) network capacity in the "last mile" by up to 2x in the downstream and up to 10x in the upstream, addressing bandwidth demand for T1 and other advanced services. Our wireless broadband solutions enable utilities and other customers to operate private wireless networks for communications to their remote assets and customers. Typical applications include high-speed internet services, SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition), voice over internet protocol (VoIP) and telephony (T1/E1), all based on modified Data Over Cable System Interface Specification (DOCSIS(R)) technology. For more information, please visit http://www.vyyo.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
Statements made in this press release relating to the future, including those related to the opportunities created for our customers given our ability to provide spectrum overlay and wired and wireless T1 solutions and our ability to dramatically increase upstream and downstream bandwidth, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward- looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our business and results of operations to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others: whether we will be able to move from development stage to deployment and establish commercial relationships with cable system operators; whether we will be able to successfully produce our wireless systems and whether such systems will be adopted and deployed by utilities and other customers; the current limited visibility available in the telecommunications and broadband access equipment markets; the willingness and ability of operators to adopt our new technology and apply it in a manner that meets customer demands; our ability to produce and distribute our broadband wireless and spectrum overlay solutions in the quantities, and with the quality control, desired by the market; and other risks set forth in our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004, our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and other reports filed by us with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. We assume no duty to update these statements.
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