CED articles from December 2002

CED archives from December 2002

Dear Santa (Roberts). (in perspective).
December 1, 2002... Hi Santa. I've been really good this year-honest! I've put in long hours, written lots of stories, trying hard to get the facts straight; sat through all kinds of briefings, in spite of my skepticism about the long-term potential of some...

Cox sets the table for retail set-tops. (Up front: latest news and insight).(Cox Communications )(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... OpenCable isn't a reality yet, but that hasn't stopped Cox Communications from priming the retail pump for digital set-tops. For starters, the MSO said two consumer electronics dealers in Virginia are making Motorola Broadband's new DCP501...

CableLabs issues two new VOD specs. (Up front: latest news and insight).(video-on-demand)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... CableLabs, without much fanfare, released two video-on-demand specifications on Sept. 27 as part of an effort to help operators deploy VOD services more rapidly. The first, the 1.1 version of CabLeLabs' video-on-demand content...

The TV Linux Alliance--a consortium that is developing a Linux-based middleware for digital set-tops--has released its first specification, version 0.8. (Up front: latest news and insight).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... The TV Linux Alliance--a consortium that is developing a Linux-based middleware for digital set-tops--has released its first specification, version 0.8. The initial spec defines the basic functionality for tuner-level and device definitions,...

Vendors make initial run at DOCSIS 2.0, CableHome 1.0. (Up front: latest news and insight).(data-over-cable service interface specification)
December 1, 2002... The launch of certification wave 24 at CableLabs shaped up to be a bellwether of sorts, as several vendors stepped forward to become the first to submit products for official testing on DOCSIS 2.0, CableHome 1.0 and PacketCable 1.0. On the...

Charter, Digeo get game. (Up front: latest news and insight).(interactive games channel i-Games)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Charter Communications said it has added gaming to its interactive channel Lineup, making it available to more than 650,000 digital subscribers. The interactive games channel, called i-Games and created through the MSO's partnership with...

Study: FTTH on a fast track. (Up front: latest news and insight).(fiber-to-the-home installations )(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Fiber-to-the-home installations will jump by 330 percent this year-from 72,100 homes passed to 315,000 homes passed-ultimately reaching between 800,000 and 1.4 million homes by 2004. That forecast, courtesy of the FTTH Council and prepared...

Panasonic signs PHILA license. (Up front: latest news and insight).(Point-Of-Deployment-Host Interface License Agreement )(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Inching the industry closer to a day when TVs can be built with on-board cable set-top capabilities, Panasonic has become the first major TV manufacturer to sign the POD-Host Interface License Agreement (PHILA). The PHILA license gives...

BigBand. Fujitsu team on video bundle. (Up front: latest news and insight).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... BigBand Networks and Fujitsu Network Communications have forged a strategic relationship under which they will package BigBand's Broadband Multimedia-Service Router (BMR) gear with Fujitsu's Fiashwave 4500 optical transport platform. The...

Wi-Fi strengthens security. (Up front: latest news and insight).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Responding to criticism that 802.11x's legacy security mechanism, Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), is extremely vulnerable to hackers and the prying eyes of "wardrivers," the Wi-Fi Alliance released a new, more secure version that can co-exist...

Broadband backs `Xbox Live'. (Up front: latest news and insight).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... A total of 13 U.S. and Canadian broadband service providers are the first to publicly support the "Xbox Compatible" program, an initiative designed to make it easy for garners to experience "Xbox Live," a broadband-only multiplayer service that...

Motive, BroadJump combine forces. (Up front: latest news and insight).(Motive Communications )(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Consolidation hit the provisioning sector this fall as Motive Communications inked a deal to acquire BroadJump Inc. and combine operations in a stock-for-stock deal. The combined company will assume the Motive name and have in excess of...

SeaChange software suite targets DVD-on-Demand. (Up front: latest news and insight).
December 1, 2002... SeaChange International has introduced a new software application that aims to add DVD functionality to everyday digital cable set-tops. Available to cable operators in January 2003, the patent-pending application, part of SeaChange's...

Motorola sheds expense with DCT-1700. (Up front: latest news and insight).(new cable set-top box)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Giving operators a way to offer digital programming to additional cable outlets without racking up huge expenses, Motorola Broadband introduced the DCT-1700, a digital, cable set-top that provides the same features as the ubiquitous DCT-2000,...

Movielink marks VOD competition for cable. (Up front: latest news and insight).(video-on-demand)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Movielink LLC initiated a "soft launch" of its highly-anticipated, broadband-friendly Internet video-on-demand service last month, initially rolling out to a limited number of customers whose feedback will be used to refine the service. ...

Building on a previous alliance, Scientific-Atlanta and Luminous Networks have launched a metro area network solution for cable operators based on resilient packet ring (RPR) technology. (Up front: latest news and insight).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Building on a previous alliance, Scientific-Atlanta and Luminous Networks have launched a metro area network solution for cable operators based on resilient packet ring (RPR) technology. The latest combination will support a range of...

Pragash Pittai, senior engineer of digital video technologies for Charter Communications Inc. (Up front: latest news and insight).(receives award )(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Pragash Pittai, senior engineer of digital video technologies for Charter Communications Inc., has been named the 2003 Young Engineer of the Year. The award-sponsored by Pace Micro Technology, the Society of Cable Telecommunications...

50 CED Broadband.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Welcome to the second installment of the Broadband 50, a collection of companies, people and technologies that the editors of CED (with help from Multichannel News' Matt Stump and Karen Brown) believe will shape, define and influence the...

Who's running the ship now? (AOL Time Warner).
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 976,000 Last year: 83,300 What a year it was for AOL Time Warner. The multimedia conglomerate landed at the top of the CED Broadband 50, based on a Google Factor ranking that was probably generated as much by morbid...

Down, but not out. (Cisco Systems Inc.).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 415,000 Last year: 280,000 Love it or hate it, this bellwether technology company practically defines IP networking. Sure, there are Jots of other smart companies out there, but Cisco's expertise and early adoption of...

Renewed commitment to DSL. (Verizon Communications).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 64,000 Last year: 51,900 After a slow start, DSL is beginning to close the gap on the cable industry's lead in high-speed Internet service. So far, cable's lead could arguably be attributed to the failures of the...

Turbo-charging DOCSIS. (Texas Instruments Inc.).(data-over-cable service interface specification)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 39,900 Last year: 38,100 In the cable data sector, Texas Instruments has always represented a stern riposte to the lung of market-leading cable modem silicon provider Broadcom Corp., providing chipsets for the likes of...

Cable's future IXC? (Net2Phone).(interexchange)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 120,000 Last year: Not on list Not too long ago, conversations involving Net2Phone were typically tied to Internet telephone calls distributed to personal computers. Well, not anymore. Followed by financial backing...

Playing the broadband game. (ESPN Inc.).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 23,800 Last year: Not on list ESPN, already a ubiquitous brand and service for sports falls everywhere, is preparing to take it up a notch next year with acronyms such as HDTV and SVOD. In April, ESPN will launch...

Making content `Real'ly available. (RealNetworks).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 32,800 Last year: 33,600 One of the apparent casualties of the great Internet bubble-burst are streaming media technologies, especially ones that focus solely on the PC for delivery and display. But for...

Broadband, innovation forge keys to success. (EarthLink Inc.).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 26,400 Last year: 18,100 At EarthLink Inc., the "1" in ISP should stand for "innovative." Its forward-thinking approach to home networking, digital music availability and software that obliterates annoying advertising...

Adapting to a new bottom line. (Cox Communications Inc.).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 16,000 Last year: Not on list These guys seem to be doing everything right. As poster boys for the new, more fiscally responsible cable industry, Cox Communications will be among the first to become free cash flow...

Nimble giant. (Comcast Corp.).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 15,000 Last year: 20,820 There's a new cable king in town, and its name is Comcast. All eyes are now fixed on Philadelphia, home of the largest MSO on the planet. Though Comcast is an extremely agile and decisive...

Defining the right strategy for DSL. (BellSouth Corp.).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 18,000 Last year: Not on list In the race to reach broadband customers, DSL started out by digging its own hole. Inconsistent copper networks and inherently unstable telephone network topologies meant problems for the...

Securing a prosperous future playing the OSS game. (Liberate Technologies).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 14,900 Last year: 12,300 The future for Liberate might not look much like its recent past. But by expanding its portfolio of operator software platforms this year, the company is in the enviable position of meeting...

New lease on iTV. (Microsoft TV).(interactive television )(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 14,300 Last year: 348,000 (Microsoft Corp.) Over at Microsoft TV, the interactive wheels might be spinning, but at least they're moving. To date, Microsoft's venture into television and interactive subscriber...

Thinking big--and small. (ADC Telecommunications).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor. 13,500 Last year: 8,390 After getting into the cable modem termination system business back in September 2000 with the acquisition of Broadband Access Systems, it looks like ADC's decision is finally starting to pay some...

Unwavered on cable. (Scientific-Atlanta Inc.).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 9,430 Last year: 8,670 In an age when equipment vendors are downsizing and refocusing their efforts on a single core market, Scientific-Atlanta can perhaps take solace in the fact it never strayed from its focus on the...

Shockwaves continue to reverberate. (Adelphia Communications Corp.).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 8,120 Last year: Not on list While most of the companies on our Broadband 50 list are making positive contributions to the advancement of broadband, Adelphia Communications is included because its implosion and ultimate...

All that and a bag of chipsets. (Broadcom Corp.).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 11200 Last year: 16,100 Broadcom Corp. has been chipping in wherever it can for years now. making semiconductors for cable modems. cable modem termination systems, digital set-tops, enterprise networks, servers and home...

Cozying up to cable. (Linksys Group Inc.).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 6,960 Last year: Not on list For a white at least, home net working and the market for personal connectivity gear seemed mired in the "down the road" category of mainstream technologies. Well, the past year has seen...

Time shifting into overdrive. (TiVo Inc.).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 6,440 Last year: Not on list You know a technology has made it to the mainstream when the brand name becomes a verb in and of itself. The verb "to TiVo" has not only entered the American lexicon, it has literally changed...

Deal dead, but cable feels footsteps. (EchoStar Communications Corp.).(attempted acquisition of DirecTV)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 6,710 Last year: 4,640 Charlie Ergen definitely has guts, and that's just what the satellite payTV industry needs as it pursues a legion of disaffected cable customers. It now appears that his ambitious bid to...

In the thick and thin of it. (Motorola Broadband).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 5,050 Last year: 3,730 Although Motorola Broadband s influence and technology touches all ends of the cable spectrum, its digital set-top efforts probably remain the most intriguing subject to cover. Thick, thin, stout...

GigE for you and me. (Harmonic Inc.).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 4,580 Last year: Not on list Although the fiber sector has taken its share of hits recently, transport technologies such as Gigabit Ethernet have hit back with a vengeance when it comes to services like video-on-demand....

Spreading its international wings. (C-COR.net).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 5,110 Last year: Not on list The technology sector was hit hard again in 2002, and few companies were spared from its wrath, but that didn't stop C-COR.net from Looking ahead and carving out some new business...

Outranking outflanking. (Toshiba America Information Systems Inc.).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 4,360 Last year: Not on list Over the past year or so, normally CE-centric Toshiba has shown that it is a major player in the market for cable modem technologies, and it's done it through the typical operator-led...

Circling the iTV wagons. (Liberty Media Group).(interactive television)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 3,310 Last year: Not on list When it comes to interactive services, and the time when cable operators will become infused with enough zeal for iTV to deploy platforms on any meaningful scale, the key is a demonstrable...

Unique position with new services. (Gemstar-TV Guide International).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 4,320 Last year: 2,140 Though there are more than a few people in the cable industry who hate to admit it, the future of advanced services like video-on-demand runs right through Gemstar-TV Guide. As a dominant force in...

Movies today, everything else tomorrow. (Concurrent Computer Corp.).
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 2,430 Last year: 1,910 In the extremely competitive game of video-on-demand, Concurrent Computer Corp. has remained strong and kept pace with the other leaders in the sector, continuing to win VOD deals and deploying its...

`Hello, (cable) operator?' (Arris Group).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 2,040 Last year: 1,976 Emerging as a "real" company after being born as a joint venture between Antec and Nortel, Arris has jumped to the forefront of advanced high-speed data and cable telephony service provision. ...

VOD, and then some ... (SeaChange International Inc.).(video-on-demand)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 1,770 Last year: Not on list The demise of Diva Systems opened the door of opportunity for just about every video-on-demand vendor, but it was ever so the case for SeaChange International Inc. Although SeaChange...

Let them eat unique (and `free') VOD. (MagRack).(video-on-demand)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 1,890 Last year: Not on list It's been clear for some time now that video-on-demand can't live on movies alone, and that pay-per-view on steroids just won't give cable the long-term VOD muscle it needs. Subscription-VOD...

Broadly jumping in to full service software. (Motive Communications Inc.).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 1,250 Last year: Not on list Austin, Texas-based Motive Communications made it onto this year's Broadband 50 list just in the nick of time. In fact, before announcing that the company was acquiring self-installation and...

Picking the VOD lock. (MidStream Technologies).(video-on-demand)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 1,190 Last year: Not on list A quick look beyond incumbent video-on-demand vendors will reveal a band of bloodthirsty video server vendors that are trying to elbow their way into the cable club. Perhaps the hungriest of...

Onward, DOCSIS 2.0. (Terayon Communication Systems).(data-over-cable service interface specification)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 1,640 Last year: 3,730 It's a year Later, and there are still three certainties in Life: death, taxes and Terayon Communication Systems talking up DOCSIS 2.0. Since the introduction of DOCSIS 2.0 and the inclusion...

Ready for cable's IP era. (Nuera Communications Inc.).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 1,050 Last year: Not on list The name might be new to many CED readers, but Nuera's gear is increasingly being found in headends and central offices as the slow shift to packet-based voice networks continues. Aiming...

Striving for simplicity. (Cedar Point Communications).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 779 Last year: Not on list For new guys on the cable scene, Cedar Point has managed to turn more than a few heads. Important ones, too. Maybe that's because they took the time to listen to what cable operators had to...

A mighty fine Fellow. (David Fellows).(of Comcast)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 944 Last year: Not on list When CED staffers set out to build this year's Broadband 50, each editor started with a separate list of favorites, then a bunch of meetings were convened until one Top 50 fist was compiled....

Defining the future of wireless video distribution. (Magis Networks).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Goggle Factor: 542 Last year: Not on List As cable operators get set to bring home networking technologies into their operational fold, the first steps will be simple--offering basic routing gear to customers who want to share...

Seeking free agents for pitcher-catcher combos. (N2 Broadband).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 732 Last year: 85 Thanks to close ties to Time Warner Cable, N2 Broadband and its package of video-on-demand software and hardware blasted from the launch pad last year with both deals and deployments in tow. This year,...

Broadband evangelist. (Rouzbeh Yassini).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 500 Last year: 283 Frenetic. Tireless. Evangelical. Driven. All are words to describe the "father of the cable modem," but none of those terms completely capture the essence of the man. Since his relatively humble...

Waking up? (Jedai Broadband Networks and Narad Networks Inc.).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 397 Last year: 126 (Jedai) Like tiny Lilliputians trying desperately not to wake a sleeping Gulliver, cable operators are quietly marshaling forces and developing game plans to extend their networks and services to...

Competing in DSL's anti-competitive arena. (Covad Communications).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 394 Last year: 2,750 There are few early arrivals left from the initial heyday of the broadband bubble. In fact, on the telco side, the only ones left are the monolithic ILEC providers that have bullied their way back...

Making media centers a reality. (Digeo Inc.).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 479 Last year: Not on list Cable operators are excited about the prospect of media centers. The concept of a rich, gateway-style set-top feeding content and data to a network of smaller, cheaper thin-client boxes is an...

Building an interactive platform. (MetaTV).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 365 Last year: Not on list Operator momentum for two-way interactive television has understandably waned a bit, replaced by operator focus on delivering advanced high-speed data and VOD. But despite forecasts that...

Covering both sides of the VOD fence. (TVN Entertainment Corp.).(video-on-demand)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 372 Last year: Not on list Concurrent, InDemand, nCUBE and SeaChange weren't the only firms with video-on-demand ties to benefit from Diva Systems' tong good-bye. TVN Entertainment, a VOD and pay-per-view content player...

Hitting the bull's-eye. (Navic Networks).
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 358 Last year: Not on list After navigating down a long, dark road dotted with product announcements but no deployments, Navic finally had something to crow about when Time Warner Cable's Oceanic division in Hawaii...

An inside look. (Stargus Inc.).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 185 Last year: Not on list With virtually every cable operator now reaping the financial benefits of high-speed data deployments, it's only natural that they're slowly beginning to understand the underlying dynamics of...

Call management gear for cable. (Syndeo Corp.).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 102 Last year: Not on list Cable operators are at different stages in their network evolution to voice services, specifically in their quest to be able to offer them over an all-IP network. While operators linger in an...

Striking up a broadband tune. (BigBand Networks Inc.).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 346 Last year: Not on list It wasn't that long ago when BigBand Networks had its coming-out party, singing tunes about the big plans it had in store for cable operators that were having trouble coming to technical grips with...

MPEG-4, anyone? (e-BOX Corp.).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 32 Last year: Not on list Japan-based joint venture e-BOX Corp. made a splash in March when it became the latest to embrace MPEG-4, a compression standard whose benefits include lower bit rates than its MPEG-2 cousin and...

Internet VOD: Cable friend or foe? (Movielink LLC).(video-on-demand)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Google Factor: 19 Last year: Not on list For a "soft launch," Movielink's introduction to some trial customers Last month sure caused quite a stir in the mainstream media. Internet video-on-demand suddenly seemed so en vogue. ...

Making the right moves: with 2003 fast approaching, some of the cable industry's technology leaders discuss how they are positioning their pieces on the chessboard of advanced services. (In Depth).(Panel Discussion)
December 1, 2002... Cable's chessboard is now teeming with service and technology pieces, some more powerful, and therefore, expensive than others. Though some MSOs are moving ahead with traditional telephony and even more advanced IP-based voice services, others...

SureWest aims for all-IP world: CTO Bill DeMuth sags video will play a starring role in the future plans of the company that picked up Winfirst's assets for cents on the dollar.(Interview)
December 1, 2002... The boom times of broadband have turned to bust for some overbuilders. But that hasn't stopped some companies from picking up the pieces and trying to salvage something from the wreckage. Over the summer, SureWest Communications, an...

Look both ways before crossing the network: VAMs valuable for non-intrusive monitoring. (Fiberline: fiber optic technology).(value added modules)
December 1, 2002... Value Added Modules, sometimes called splitter modules, are finding acceptance at fiber demarcation and handoff points, which are proliferating in today's metro buildouts. Though VAMs can perform a variety of network functions, including...

Out of the garage and into the limelight. (CableNET 10th).
December 1, 2002... It's fitting that CableNET's beginning 10 years ago can be traced to a loaned warehouse fondly referred to as "the garage." After all, haven't the friendly confines of the garage inspired many an engineering and technological feat? As...

Summoning the ghost of CableNET past. (CableNET 10th).
December 1, 2002... I remember walking around at one of the very first CableNET exhibits feeling, "This is it; the cable industry has arrived." Surrounded by modems in racks, well before consumer prototypes were even developed, CableNET demonstrated that our...

A living, breathing laboratory. (CableNET 10th).
December 1, 2002... CABLENET is a hands-on educational forum on broadband that happens to be celebrating its 10th anniversary this year in Anaheim as a cable industry exhibit that is part of The Western Show (known this year as BroadbandPlus). This brainchild...

Making the [carrier] grade: debating the virtues of the carrier-class CMTS. (Networking: advanced networking technology).
December 1, 2002... Before IP telephony and other QoS-sensitive, packet-based services entered cable's fold, the legacy cable modem termination system was perfectly capable of helping operators deliver best-effort high-speed data services. Now, as some...

Breathing new life into layer 4: a new advance adds intelligence to content routing decisions. (Networking: advanced networking technology).
December 1, 2002... Over the years, the Internet has grown and changed in many ways, adding more functionality, applications, and most importantly, users. In order to respond to these changes, broad band and enterprise networks are evolving to handle...

Predictive modeling: learning from the past: creating business intelligence from subscriber usage information. (Networking: advanced networking technology).
December 1, 2002... Predictive modeling is a means of looking at current events through special lenses (which are shaped and defined by the analysis of historical data) to identify patterns-as well as predict future events. Once thought of as science fiction,...

Can cable capture limited VC? Turmoil in venture capital community could pay off for cable operators. (Broadand: business and news perspective).
December 1, 2002... In the year 2000, venture capitalists and much of the investment community at-large were tripping over their portfolios to lend money to start-up companies extolling the next greatest technological advancements-business plans, management teams...

Who wants HDTV? Part 2. (Ciciora's Corner).
December 1, 2002... Latency is a technical term used in cable propagation studies, but it applies elsewhere in life as well. My column appears every other month, and two columns ago, I wrote about "Who wants HDTV?," and got several strong e-mail responses. But I...

Ingesting digital TV's acronym soup: getting to know DASE, GEM, MHP, OCAP and PHILA. (Broadband: business and news perspective).(DTV Applications Software Environment )(Globally Executable Multimedia Home Platform)(OpenCable Applications Platform)(POD Host Interface Agreement)
December 1, 2002... Watch for OpenCable--now entering its sixth year of existence--to edge firmly into the foreground next year, bringing with it a tall stack of cross-industry problems to solve. A sharper focus on the core video business couldn't be...

Noise module for interface testing. (New products: product reviews).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... PARSIPPANY, N.J. -- Noise Com has announced the NC1128A, a new amplified noise module for 10 Gbps electro/opto interface testing. Offering a broad frequency range, the module produces amplified noise over the entire 10 MHz to 10 GHz range. The...

Wireless cable/DSL router. (New products: product reviews).(U.S. Robotics Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... CHICAGO -- U.S. Robotics is now enabling multiple users on a network to share cable, DSL or dial-up Internet access at work, home and wireless hot spots. The 22 Mbps Wireless Cable/DSL Router is currently shipping, and includes: a two-port...

Universal remote. (Customer Premise).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... INDIANAPOLIS -- Thomson has introduced a new RCA eight-device universal teaming remote control with a backlit LCD touchscreen keypad. The new remote enables viewers to control their audio and video components with a single device that combines...

10 GigE PHY and backplane transceiver. (New products: product reviews).(Mysticom)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Mysticom has announced a 10 Gigabit Ethernet PHY and backplane transceiver (MY3104) with integrated forward error correction (FEC). The MY3104 is based on Mysticom's enhanced encoding scheme, which integrates forward...