BEIJING, March 20, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- China Content Broadcasting Network Exhibition – Hall: 3; Booth # 3403 -- Entropic (Nasdaq:ENTR), a world leader in semiconductor solutions for the connected home, announced today Coship Electronics (Coship), one of the leading set-top box (STB) vendors in the world, has selected its c.LINK® Ethernet-over-Coax (EoC) Broadband Access solution for integration into its High Definition (HD) STBs to simplify China operators' deployments of new advanced services. By using the embedded c.LINK EoC solution, the HD STB platform is highly scalable in an operator's network; having the ability to be deployed in multiple STBs throughout a home, wherever a coax outlet in the room exists.
Under the China NGB initiative, multiple service operators (MSOs) are looking to deploy more advanced video services. Many MSOs are investing in EoC solutions to ensure network reliability of these video services. To increase MSOs' average revenue per user (ARPU), many MSOs are turning to turnkey single-box STBs integrated with EoC technology to ensure a robust, complete multimedia and broadband access-ready network.
Coship selected Entropic's latest EoC solution, c.LINK 1.1, as it is a proven and trusted technology, deployed within multiple operator networks in China. By integrating c.LINK into the STB solution, operators can more seamlessly roll-out advanced services as part of their NGB cable TV transformation plans. The Coship solution enables the delivery of advanced IP-based broadband and interactive services, such as IPTV and IP VoD (video on demand), among other services over the same coaxial network that is shared with the operator's cable TV service.
"Entropic's c.LINK EoC solution provides an excellent broadband connectivity backbone for advanced IP video," said Pippen Ye, vice president of Digital Home Product Line of Coship. "The solution offers robust performance and large-scale coverage to enable MSOs' timely migration from Standard Definition to High Definition. We plan to integrate Entropic's c.LINK EoC Broadband Access technology into our advanced products to enable a new generation of HD STBs that can seamlessly be added to operators' c.LINK EoC networks; allowing operators to roll out value-added VOD services with lower cost STBs and lower operational costs."
"Coship is one of the top STB suppliers in the world, and their adoption of our c.LINK EoC further validates the power and performance of Entropic's EoC solution," said Al Servati, vice president, Marketing, Connectivity Group, Entropic. "As the market in China moves toward delivering more HD video and advanced services as part of China's NGB initiative for the cable market, we are proud to enable Coship's STBs to provide an unparalleled two-way interactivity using existing Coax network."
Entropic's c.LINK 1.1 EoC solution is based on the EN3511 Network Controller (NC) and the EN3530 Client Premise Equipment (CPE). Key technical features include:
- Reliability – based on the field proven MoCA® (Multimedia over Coax) 1.1 chipset technology, for which Entropic has already shipped more than 50-million MoCA 1.0/1.1 chipsets;
- Lower Total Systems Cost – achieved through its highly integrated 65nm single-chip SoC and optimized bill of materials (BOM) costs;
- Increased Performance – providing more than 270 Mbps of raw data bandwidth and more than 175 Mbps of application throughput;
- Backward Compatibility – to the currently deployed system (EN3011/EN3230) in the field offering a seamless upgrade path; and
- Support for Quality of Service (QoS) Performance Attributes – with high immunity to electrical interference and stringent low latency time-division-multiplexing protocol (TDM).
Availability
The Coship interactive HD STB samples will be available in Q2 2013, with mass production in Q3 2013.
About COSHIP Electronics
COSHIP Electronics Co., Ltd. founded in 1994, is a listed well-known Hi-tech enterprise in China, specializing in R&D, manufacture and marketing of satellite/cable/terrestrial digital TV receivers, professional head-end IRD, IP STB (Set-Top Box), cable modem, GPS products, security products and LED displays. As the China's largest and one of global leading STB manufacturers, COSHIP provides global Pay TV operators with a variety of STBs worldwide deployed in Europe, Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, South America and Africa. Furthermore, COSHIP maintains tremendous growth and has been the number one STB exporter in China for the past six consecutive years.
About Entropic
Entropic (Nasdaq:ENTR) is a world leader in semiconductor solutions for the connected home. The Company transforms how traditional HDTV broadcast and IP-based streaming video content is seamlessly, reliably, and securely delivered, processed, and distributed into and throughout the home. Entropic's next-generation Set-top Box (STB) System-on-a-Chip (SoC) and Connectivity solutions enable Pay-TV operators to offer consumers more captivating whole-home entertainment experiences by transforming the way digital entertainment is delivered, connected and consumed – in the home and on the go. For more information, visit Entropic at: www.entropic.com.
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