Posted on May 13, 2008 by Mari Silbey
First the news: Motorola announced the launch of a new universal edge QAM today, the APEX1000. In brief, edge quadrature amplitude modulators (QAMs) are used to translate signals from IP into radio frequency (RF). (Leslie Ellis explains it by saying this modulation turns spectrum into bandwidth.) Operators are finding they need more QAM channels of [...]
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Posted on May 9, 2008 by Mari Silbey
The Certification Wave 58 results are out! Motorola received DOCSIS 3.0 certification for its SB6120 and SBV6220 cable modems and DOCSIS 3.0 bronze qualification for the Motorola BSR 64000 cable modem termination system (CMTS). I had a chance to sit down quickly with Motorola’s Chris Kohler to discuss the modem certifications and recorded [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by Mari Silbey
First quarter shipment numbers are in, and the shift from BPON to GPON in fiber-to-the-home deployments is clear. While most 2007 shipments were BPON, in the first quarter of 2008, 90% of Motorola’s optical line terminals (OLTs) shipped were GPON. Top Motorola PON customers so far this year are Verizon and the aggregate of Motorola [...]
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Posted on May 5, 2008 by Mari Silbey
Since the acquisition of Terayon last year, Motorola’s been fairly close-mouthed about its targeted advertising activities, but today, as part of an extended lead-up to the Cable Show, Motorola announced a new version of the CherryPicker Application Platform (CAP-1000). Here’s a little background.
First, several years ago, Terayon introduced the DM6400 CherryPicker product. The DM6400 does [...]
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Posted on May 2, 2008 by Mari Silbey
Motorola co-hosted a telebriefing yesterday with Patti Reali from Gartner and Ruchir Rodrigues from Verizon. There were a number of good stats thrown out, and you can sort through some of them in the Motorola press release or listen to the audio replay of the event. However, the one that gave me pause was a [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2008 by Mari Silbey
In a serendipitous moment, I had a call this morning to talk about DOCSIS 3.0 CPE updates, and I learned that J:COM in Japan has completed trials and is starting to install Motorola’s channel-bonding modems in subscriber homes TODAY. The latest status reports from the lab have found no issues with the SB6120 modems, and [...]
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Posted on April 22, 2008 by Mari Silbey
Timed to coincide with a Motorola customer event in San Diego this week, Motorola announced today the availability of its new line of VDSL2 gateways. We saw a sample gateway back at CES, but three versions of the product have now been officially released into the wild. The line of gateways is called the Motorola [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by Mari Silbey
I’ve gotten more than few friendly nudges lately for an update on the switched digital video (SDV) tuning resolver. The Motorola device is now officially called the MTR700 and it just came through a CableLabs interop with flying colors. Next the product will be submitted to CableLabs’ Cert Wave 60, and then it will be [...]
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Posted on April 14, 2008 by Mari Silbey
Motorola has news on the wire this morning out of the NAB show, and much of it has to do with high-definition broadcasting. First, the company announced that its MPEG products will now support Active Format Description (AFD). Sounds technical, but the concept is exceedingly simple. By supporting AFD, the MPEG encoders and transcoders can [...]
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Posted on April 7, 2008 by Mari Silbey
I’m still on vacation here, but of course that doesn’t mean the news stops. Motorola racked up another DOCSIS 3.0 win today with Japan’s largest broadband operator, Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM). The deal includes both Motorola CMTSs (the BSR 64000) and cable modems (the SB6120s). For some reason the press release isn’t showing up on the [...]
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