Thought this was worth sharing. The diagram above illustrates a proposed home network architecture. (Click to see full size) It comes from a presentation by Motorola senior director of engineering Chris Kohler at NAB and expands on some of the thinking around the transport gateway concept.
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Verizon announced earlier this week that it’s trialing new eco-friendly Motorola set-tops requiring less power and packaged with recycled and recyclable materials. What Verizon didn’t mention in the early announcement is that these same set-tops come with double the hard-drive size of current FiOS boxes. The new Motorola QIP7232 set-top model includes 320 GB of [...]
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Neurobiology meets video compression. This is starting to feel a little like something out of Neuromancer. In the video above, Motorola Technical Fellow Dr. Sean McCarthy explains how the company is using concepts from the science of neurobiology to improve compression technology. Dr. McCarthy hails originally from UC Berkeley where he studied the human visual [...]
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Maybe you noticed the off-hand mention of enhanced software for Motorola set-tops being used in 3D demos of the Masters Tournament last week. Maybe not. In any case, Motorola is making that software official today with an announcement at the 2010 NAB Show. The new software for Motorola’s DCX set-tops does two things. First, it [...]
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Cable operators are in various stages of transitioning to IP at the network headend. Traditionally, satellite receivers (and encoders, and other local media sources) have used a specification called ASI to transport content to the edge network. But since about 2007 there’s been a steady migration to IP. Today, Motorola has announced a new ASI-to-Gigabit-Ethernet [...]
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