There’s been a lot of news out of Clearwire this week, and all of it appears good for consumers. First, there are reports that investors are planning to throw another $1.5 billion into the pot for Clearwire’s national WiMAX network. The extra cash should help keep up the company’s recent market-launch momentum (can I put [...]
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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 [...]
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Motorola has worked in conjunction with Microsoft for many IPTV deployments, both in providing IP set-tops and in doing back-office integration with Microsoft Mediaroom and Motorola’s CCE software. However, today there’s a press release out announcing a more formalized relationship. Motorola is now officially providing systems integration support for Mediaroom deployments. While an IT services [...]
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Much of the television industry’s focus right now is on how to move content around – whether through multi-room DVR, TV Everywhere initiatives, or device-to-device transfers. However, there’s a corollary issue that’s also being explored: how to move user navigation features around to different devices. Let’s say you can access the content on your DVR [...]
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Motorola has passed another milestone: one million video-on-demand streams shipped globally. By my count, there are only two or three other companies who can claim that volume, which makes Motorola one of the top VOD server providers on the planet. The company’s customer list also seems to bear that out, with big-name MSOs on board [...]
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