- Comcast Eyes Gradual Move to DOCSIS 3.0
Comcast hasn't let the cat out of the bag as to when — or where — it expects to launch “wideband” cable-modem service, with the promise of download speeds topping 100 Megabits per second. But chief technology officer Tony Werner is confident that upgrading Comcast's networks to the Data Over ......
- Adelphia Adds Terayon DOCSIS 2.0 Gear
Adelphia Communications Corp. has deployed more than 200 of Terayon Communication Systems Inc.’s DOCSIS 2.0 cable-modem termination systems for the MSO’s high-speed Internet customers. It’s believed to be one of the first widespread launches of DOCSIS 2.0 gear in the U.S., according to Terayon executives. The rollout in 10-plus markets ......
- Com21 Expands U.S. Cable Efforts
After several years of silence in the U.S. cable-modem controller market, Com21 Inc. plans to make some noise in 2002, as it shifts its domestic focus from just Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification modems to more of a full-system play. The Milpitas, Calif.-based company earlier this month unveiled its ......
- Ixia Announces Solution for Testing Packet Data over Cable
Ixia has released IxVoice, its analysis solution for converged telephony testing. This release of IxVoice introduces a number of enhancements to improve and simplify the verification of packet data over cable solutions, including support for traditional PSTN and VoIP technologies and related protocols, such as MGCP, COPS, and SS7. "Ixia's ......
- Asset-Selling Com 21 Heads Into Bankruptcy
Com21 Inc. has thrown in the financial towel, announcing it has voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and intends to sell off its lines of cable-modem termination systems to Arris Group Inc. The Milpitas, Calif.-based company filed its reorganization plans with U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Northern District of California ......
- Allot Offers Ops Way To Handle the 'Peers'...
Minneapolis-based Allot Communications Ltd. is eyeing the cable market with a new bandwidth-management device designed to help operators control the amount of peer-to-peer traffic flowing out of cable-modems. "The biggest opportunity is peer-to-peer and unauthorized networks," Greg Hutterer, director of carrier sales for the bandwidth-management provider, said. "Peer-to-peer is starting ......
- No DOCSIS For Com21
In many ways, Com21 Inc. hopes to go back to the beginning. Facing a large debt load and dwindling prospects for Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification products, the longtime cable data-gear vendor is jettisoning that business as it enters Chapter 11 bankruptcy. If creditors and a U.S. bankruptcy court ......