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De-regulation & Demand for Improved Reliability Provides Investment Opportunities in Indian Ocean, P

Howard Kidorf — 2003-04-15T04:00:00+00:00

De-regulation & Demand for Improved Reliability Provides Investment Opportunities in Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, & Red Sea.

Bandwidth Demand for Regional Systems Seen Driving Growth at nearly 50% per year

Asia Pacific Submarine Demand Still Strong But Market Dynamics Changing.

Howard Kidorf — 2004-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

Annual Demand Growth to Average over 40%. Incumbents Reasserting Dominance.

Software Defined Radio Threatens To Re-Balance Wireless Value Chain

Pioneer Consulting Site Admin — 2005-01-25T05:00:00+00:00

Annual Demand Growth to Average over 60% with US Market Leading the Way

Software-defined Radio Could Re-define Wireless Value Chain, Says Pioneer Consulting

Pioneer Consulting Site Admin — 2005-02-09T20:09:00+00:00

Software-defined Radio Could Re-define Wireless Value Chain, Says Pioneer Consulting

Asia-Pacific submarine cable market is on the upswing

Howard Kidorf — 2005-03-02T20:46:00+00:00

Link: Lightwave Magazine, March 2, 2005

Asia-Pacific submarine cable market is on the upswing

Pioneer Consulting Site Admin — 2005-03-02T20:46:00+00:00

Asia-Pacific submarine cable market is on the upswing
Lightwave Magazine

Alcatel Consolidates Position in Submarine System Supply But Competitors Promise a Fight

Pioneer Consulting Site Admin — 2005-06-02T04:00:00+00:00

Bandwidth Demand Still Growing 40% per year. Capacity Deficits Forecast in Some Regions.

Point-to-Multipoint Technology Adoption Forecast to Grow Rapidly in Wireless Backhaul Market

Pioneer Consulting Site Admin — 2005-06-21T04:00:00+00:00

Capacity demand keeps submarine fiber afloat

Pioneer Consulting Site Admin — 2005-08-15T19:57:00+00:00

Link: Lightwave Magazine , August 2005

Market Watch: Capacity demand keeps submarine fiber afloat

Pioneer Consulting Site Admin — 2005-08-15T19:57:00+00:00

Market Watch: Capacity demand keeps submarine fiber afloat

JDSU Successfully Completes Qualification Tests on Industry-Leading 980 nm Pump Module

Pioneer Consulting Site Admin — 2005-09-25T19:49:00+00:00

Link: JDSU Web Site
JDSU Press Release, also Morningstar, Yahoo Finance

Undersea Pump Module Offers Power For Submarine Cable Systems

Pioneer Consulting Site Admin — 2005-09-27T20:24:00+00:00

Link: Fiber Optics Online, September 27, 2005

Consultancies Join Forces to Offer Submarine Fiber Optic Market Insight & Technical Advice

Howard Kidorf — 2005-10-20T04:00:00+00:00

Consultancies Join Forces to Offer Submarine Fiber Optic Market Insight & Technical Advice Under One Roof

Pioneer Consulting & Kidorf Innovative Methods see synergy and strength in collaboration

PON/FTTx Market Offers Glimmer of Hope to All-Optical Switch Manufacturers

Howard Kidorf — 2006-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

Market Acceptance as a Remote Test and Measurement Tool Could Create a New $40-75M per year Market Worldwide

ECI Offers One-Stop Optical Solutions to One of the World's Largest Mobile Operators

Pioneer Consulting Site Admin — 2006-01-10T16:35:00+00:00

ECI Offers One-Stop Optical Solutions to One of the World's Largest Mobile Operators

Senior Analyst Aditya Kaul's Blog - Kaulout

Pioneer Consulting Site Admin — 2006-03-14T05:00:00+00:00

Pioneer Consulting Senior Analyst Aditya Kaul writes about emerging wireless technologies on his personal blog Kaulout

WiMax May Be Waiting for Godot

Pioneer Consulting Site Admin — 2006-03-31T01:01:00+00:00

WiMax May Be Waiting for Godot
Barron's Online

Pioneer Consulting completes West African traffic study

Howard Kidorf — 2006-09-13T04:00:00+00:00

Pioneer Consulting completes West African traffic study

Global Crossing Picks Xtera

Howard Kidorf — 2006-10-16T04:00:00+00:00

Link: Lightwave Magazine, October 16, 2006

Lightwave Magazine

Pioneer Consulting Site Admin — 2006-10-16T23:57:00+00:00

Lightwave Magazine
"Activity in the submarine market is on the rise, especially unrepeatered systems supporting regional networks. Xtera's ability to offer longer distances for new links and significant capacity upgrades for existing links provide operators with new cost"

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Submarine systems supply market rebounds

Howard Kidorf — 2006-11-02T00:59:00+00:00

Link: Lightwave Magazine, November 1, 2006

MuniWireless.com

Pioneer Consulting Site Admin — 2006-12-29T00:51:00+00:00

MuniWireless.com
Mobile WiMAX goes far beyond WiFi. In my view, WiFi has opened the doors for the Wireless Internet, but Mobile WiMAX will take the experience further allowing for anytime, anywhere access.

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Growing Industry Acceptance of Fixed & Mobile 4G Networks

Pioneer Consulting Site Admin — 2007-02-05T04:45:00+00:00

Global WiMAX Backhaul Equipment Market Value Forecast to Reach US$2B in 2010

Consultancies Join Forces

Pioneer Consulting Site Admin — 2007-02-05T04:49:00+00:00

North Adams, Massachusetts and Red Bank, NJ – September 20, 2005 Pioneer Consulting, LLC and Kidorf Innovative Methods have today forged a strategic alliance to offer an integrated package of commercial and technical products and services to their respective clients in the field of submarine fiber optics.

Tyco to Sell Undersea Cable Unit to an Indian Telecom Company

Howard Kidorf — 2007-02-11T19:59:00+00:00

Link: New York Times, November 2, 2004

New York Times

Pioneer Consulting Site Admin — 2007-02-11T19:59:00+00:00

"There is certainly demand, especially from the Indian Ocean looking west." But with so much new cable being laid, he said, "we'll see the same kind of prices collapse like they had in the trans-Atlantic market."

- New York Times

WiMax.co.uk

Pioneer Consulting Site Admin — 2007-02-11T20:01:00+00:00

"WiMAX has received a lot of negative publicity recently" says Julian Rawle, Managing Partner, "but when you look beyond the hype and anti-hype, there is a viable business case for the fixed standard and maybe also for the mobile standard."

- WiMax.co.uk

Light Reading

Pioneer Consulting Site Admin — 2007-02-11T20:02:00+00:00

"Everyone involved in this industry knows that there are good times and bad times. What Pioneer has done is to define what those cycles look like and how long they last," said Julian Rawle, senior market analyst, submarine fibre optic at Pioneer Consulting. "This should assist companies in their business planning and allocation of resources."

- Light Reading

Lightwave Magazine

Pioneer Consulting Site Admin — 2007-02-11T20:53:00+00:00

"North America clearly leads the metro-optical-networking marketplace over the next five-year period because of its intense competitive environment, leadership in equipment production and supply, concentration of Internet traffic, and metro fiber-optic infrastructure opportunity. The European market will represent the second-largest market through the five-year period because of its intense competition, while other global markets remain well behind as they strive to build-out their core optical-network markets first," explains Douglas McEuen, senior market analyst, optical networks at Pioneer Consulting.

- Lightwave Magazine

Lightwave Magazine Quotes Pioneer Senior Analyst

Pioneer Consulting Site Admin — 2007-04-21T23:58:00+00:00

Pioneer Senior Analyst Aditya Kaul was quoted in Lightwave Magazine as saying “There is clearly going to be a demarcation of the TDM-based voice (2G) traffic and ATM- or IP-based data (3G) traffic in the backhaul, and so we might see a hybrid approach in the near and medium term trying to carry voice and data over different networks and thus the need for aggregation boxes that combine different traffic flows,”

Wireless Backhaul geared to embrace Ethernet/IP in Cellular Networks

Julian Rawle — 2007-05-08T13:47:43+00:00

Worldwide market value set to peak this year at US$3 billion

Pioneer Consulting Appoints Keith Schofield to head up its Submarine Network Consulting Practice

Howard Kidorf — 2007-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

Pioneer Consulting Appoints Keith Schofield to head up its Submarine Network Consulting Practice

Web Item Formatting

Howard Kidorf — 2008-01-28T22:34:22+00:00

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Press Releases

Pioneer Issues Positive Forecast for Caribbean but Warns of the Potential for Price Erosion

Christine Schinella — 2008-02-12T22:27:18+00:00

On the first day of “Capacity Caribbean 2008” hosted by Capacity Magazine, Julian Rawle, Managing Partner at Pioneer Consulting presented the company’s forecast of demand for capacity in the Caribbean for the next five years. He said that the market was on track to achieve at least 30% compound annual growth in the coming years as fixed and mobile broadband services continue to grow exponentially.

New Owners Promise Additional Capital to Provide New Products & Services to Clients

Howard Kidorf — 2008-02-22T16:54:59+00:00

New Owners Promise Additional Capital to Provide New Products & Services to Clients

Pioneer Consulting Predicts Global Wavelength Services Market to Reach Nearly $1.6 Billion by 2007

Howard Kidorf — 2008-02-22T17:16:49+00:00

Ericsson Acknowledges the Importance of 'Common' Base Station Platforms (Finally!)

Christine Schinella — 2008-02-25T15:38:09+00:00

Aditya Kaul’s (Pioneer Consulting's, Senior Analyst) response to the original article “Ericsson Launches Groundbreaking Multi-Standard Radio Base Stations”.

Mr. Rawle's Response to "Google Buys A Piece Of Transpacific Cable"

Christine Schinella — 2008-02-29T02:56:57+00:00

Google is buying a piece of a new transpacific fiber optic cable, according to research firm TeleGeography. This will be yet another piece of what can be loosely described as GoogleNet, a fiber network built and leased by the search engine and advertising giant to meet its ever-growing bandwidth requirements. Google is one of the six investors in the “Unity” undersea cable that will connect the U.S. and Japan. The new cable is going to be built by Tyco Telecommunications and NEC for about $300 million.

Mr. Kaul's Response to: "Ericsson Expects Mass LTE Deployment in 2012"

Christine Schinella — 2008-02-29T03:09:16+00:00

Just when the average consumer was learning to take advantage of the 3G network (while perhaps noticing the limits of the 2.5G Edge network on the iPhone), it’s time to prep for 4G. Verizon and Vodafone are already testing 4G equipment that relies on the Long-Term Evolution standard.

Pioneer Among the Eight New Members to Join SDR Forum

Christine Schinella — 2008-03-03T15:54:40+00:00

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The SDR Forum announced today that eight organizations and educational institutions that develop and promote new and innovative technologies have joined the Forum as new members.

JULIAN RAWLE

Howard Kidorf — 2008-03-05T22:40:35+00:00

JULIAN RAWLE, MBA

Managing Partner

Julian is well-known throughout the submarine fiber optic industry for his insightful market analysis and project management skills. He has worked in emerging and developed international markets for nearly 20 years with blue-chip companies such as Global Marine, NTT, Cable & Wireless, Chevron, and BP. Since joining Pioneer in 2001, Julian has led projects for clients from all segments of the submarine fiber optic industry and continues to publish his research on submarine fiber optic markets around the world. In addition to regular quotes in the Press and articles for industry publications, he regularly chairs industry conferences.

HOWARD KIDORF

Howard Kidorf — 2008-03-05T22:41:07+00:00

HOWARD KIDORF, MEng

Managing Partner

Howard is a recognized expert in optical transmission and telecommunications networks and an experienced manager of research and development teams. Before becoming a partner in Pioneer Consulting, he was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff for Forward-Looking Technology Assessment at Tyco Telecommunications and Director of Services Engineering at Tyco Submarine Systems Ltd. He holds numerous U.S. and foreign patents in the field of fiber-optic communications and has authored many technical papers. Howard also owns his own consulting practice which specialises in U.S. Government contracts. He is a highly effective communicator with industry-leading technical skills which he leverages to add value for our clients.

KEITH SCHOFIELD

Howard Kidorf — 2008-03-05T22:41:31+00:00

KEITH SCHOFIELD, CEng MIMechE MCMI
Director, Submarine Networks

Keith is a seasoned commercial development director and general manager of complex telecommunications infrastructure projects. He has more than 25 years’ experience of successfully implementing consultancy programs in the submarine fiber optics industry, having previously worked for Cable & Wireless and STC. Keith’s ability to find innovative solutions to complex problems, to manage relationships at all levels of the organization, and his sound business and commercial judgment help our clients to achieve strategic goals and long-term profitability.

ADITYA KAUL

Howard Kidorf — 2008-03-05T22:41:56+00:00

Aditya Kaul

Senior Analyst Emerging Wireless Technologies

Aditya is leading Pioneer’s efforts in the Emerging Wireless Technologies space. He has worked on numerous consulting projects and written reports on topics covering Software Defined Radio, Wireless Backhaul, Nanotech in Wireless, Mobile Content Distribution, WiMAX, In-Building Cellular, Mobile TV and many others. He has two Masters degrees from the US in Electrical Engineering and Industrial Engineering and has worked in the wireless industry for Qualcomm and Siemens. Aditya is frequently invited to chair workshops and conferences, moderate panel sessions, speak at conferences, and make contributions to magazines and industry journals.

Introducing Wireless Backhaul

Christine Schinella — 2008-03-11T17:14:20+00:00

Telecommunications providers, especially those that offer wireless services, are increasingly feeling the bandwidth pinch. Multimedia services and applications, including those that make use of voice and video, demand more and more bandwidth to work properly.

Pioneer Expects Market for Nanotechnology in Wireless Handsets to Reach $15 Billion by 2012

Christine Schinella — 2008-03-18T17:30:27+00:00

Batteries, Displays, Processor and Memory components will be key markets for nanotechnology.

Wireless Handset Makers Plug into Nanotech

Christine Schinella — 2008-04-01T20:07:08+00:00

Batteries, displays, processor and memory components will be key.

JENNIFER ASPELL

Howard Kidorf — 2008-04-14T20:35:27+00:00

Senior Analyst

KAUSTUBHA PARKHI

Howard Kidorf — 2008-04-14T21:01:32+00:00

Doubts Raised Over Android Fragmentation

Christine Schinella — 2008-06-17T00:50:03+00:00

Senior Analyst Aditya Kaul quoted on ZDNet

$16.4 Billion Worth of Revenue at Risk by 2012 Due to End User Mobile Content Sharing, says Pioneer

Aditya Kaul — 2008-06-27T09:57:44+00:00