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Cisco and Texas Instruments Complete First Interoperability Testing of DOCSIS 3.0 Network Upstream Channel Bonding
Cable Operators May Soon See Faster Uploads
| Source: Cisco
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - August 13, 2007) - Cisco® (NASDAQ : CSCO ) today announced
successful completion of interoperability testing of the Cisco uBR10012
Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) platform with Texas Instruments' Puma
5 DOCSIS® 3.0 CPE development platform. The Cisco uBR10012 CMTS solution
demonstrated upstream channel bonding, an important feature of
CableLabs'® DOCSIS 3.0 specifications and a key advancement for cable
operators.
The DOCSIS 3.0 specification defines interface requirements for cable
modems involved in high-speed data distribution over cable television
system networks. Channel bonding -- logically combining several radio
frequency channels -- provides cable operators with a flexible way to
increase upstream and downstream throughput for customers. Downstream
data-transmission rates are in the hundreds of megabits and can scale to
potentially gigabits per second.
The interoperability testing at CableLabs helps ensure that the
industry-leading Cisco uBR10012 CMTS platform and Texas Instruments' Puma 5
DOCSIS 3.0 CPE development platform can be used together to as part of a
DOCSIS 3.0 network. Already leading the industry in terms of density,
performance and features, the addition of upstream channel bonding further
extends the versatility of the Cisco uBR10012 CMTS solution.
The Cisco and Texas Instruments upstream channel-bonding interoperability
testing demonstrates that the Cisco uBR10012 CMTS platform may support
cable operators' high-speed cable-modem services with the promise of upload
speeds far greater than those available today.
"This successful demonstration of upstream channel bonding clearly shows
there is significant momentum for DOCSIS 3.0," said Tony Werner, Comcast
Cable chief technology officer. "We believe this as an important milestone
with DOCSIS 3.0 enabling a new generation of high-bandwidth services that
will benefit businesses and consumers around the world."
"As cable operators migrate to DOCSIS 3.0, they need a seamlessly flexible
solution that can deliver the power and reliability required for equipment
to bond several channels together and act as a single virtual pipe upstream
and downstream," said John Mattson, director of marketing, CMTS products,
Cisco. "Successfully demonstrating upstream channel bonding demonstrates
the versatility and DOCSIS 3.0 leadership of the Cisco uBR10012 CMTS
platform, which provides a seamless migration path from today's DOCSIS
services to DOCSIS 3.0."
The demonstration of upstream channel bonding is one of many firsts for
Cisco. Cisco was also the first to demonstrate downstream channel bonding,
multicast and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) -- all major components of
DOCSIS 3.0 -- further proving its industry leadership in this area. More
information about the Cisco uBR10012 CMTS platform and other cable
solutions is available at www.cisco.com/go/serviceprovider.
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