We’ve been talking about RF-over-Glass (RFOG) for well over a year now, but the technology got a major boost this week when Time Warner Cable issued an RFOG RFI. The major benefit of RFOG is the ability for cable operators to extend fiber to the home while still using existing equipment and traditional RF video [...]
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Motorola has already cemented its leadership role in IPTV as far as set-tops are concerned, but the company has a software play too. Today Motorola announced a deal with CODETEL in the Caribbean (a subsidiary of America Movil) to provide its CCE platform for managing IPTV content and services. As briefly as I can describe [...]
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It pays to certify devices for use on a public network. Certification for network use protects quality of service and sets a baseline for subscriber security. It’s a business that Motorola has been in for years, and one that now reaches into the realm of WiMAX. The WiMAX Forum has selected Motorola’s public key infrastructure [...]
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Until mobile data services went through the roof, cable had limited interest in the wireless aspect of the so-called quad play. But now that mobile broadband has evolved into an extension of the home Internet connection, every major MSO has a wireless strategy. Today, Comcast launched a trial Wi-Fi service in conjunction with Cablevision in [...]
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The quarterly earnings reports have been less than fun of late, but in the good news column, the Motorola Home and Networks Mobility business continues to perform well. Operating margins are up, and Motorola shipped 4.7 million “digital entertainment devices” (i.e. set-tops) in Q4 this year compared to 3.4 million in the fourth quarter of [...]
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