Remember the new gateway Motorola announced at the SCTE show? The SB6180 has a hefty eight downstream and four upstream channels, and it just came through CableLabs Certification Wave 70 for DOCSIS 3.0 with flying colors. If all that was gibberish to you, it means the gateway is certified to support channel bonding. Eight bonded channels downstream and four bonded channels upstream give the gateway potential speeds of up to 300 Mbps and more than 100 Mbps respectively.
As Jeff Baumgartner points out, the new SB6180 is the first D3-certified product from Motorola with a Broadcom chip. It also has an embedded 802.11n wireless access point, four-port router, and remote management capabilities.
Filed under: Bandwidth, CE, DOCSIS 3.0, Internet, Motorola News
[...] showcased the RX48 decoupled upstream module for cable modem termination systems, and the high-end SB6180 DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem. Both products launched late last year, and are now being made available for the Latin American [...]