iUHBA's audacious 10G broadband plan

His associates put him in the "top 1% of visionaries in the world," he says. He has voiced aspirations to be the world's richest man. And next spring he plans to start rolling out 10-Gb/s broadband to millions of US homes. So who is Neal Lachman? The outspoken entrepreneur, prone to oversized ambitions and an active presence in online social networks and blogs, is currently seeking investment for iUHBA, a startup aimed at a revolutionary jump in broadband speeds that Lachman, 39, says is the culmination of nearly a decade of work developing the strategy with colleagues. "We perfected it in the last nine and a half years," he said. iUHBA, (an acronym for ultrahigh-bandwidth access) plans to roll out a converged wireless/wireline network, offering wireless service at speeds up to 100 Mb/s and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) service at 10-Gb/s using a mix of commercial 802.11n-based next-generation WiFi and active Ethernet access gear but transitioning over time to its own internally designed equipment that will make use of patents the company has acquired (and some it has yet to acquire).