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by Staff -- Multichannel News, 12/21/2009 2:00:00 AM
CableLabs OKs DOCSIS 3.0 Devices
Louisville, Colo. — CableLabs bestowed holiday blessings on six DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems and voice modems, certifying customer-premises gear from Motorola, Netgear, SMC, Ubee Interactive and CastleNet.
Products approved for DOCSIS 3.0 in CableLabs’ Certification Wave 71 were: Motorola’s SurfBoard SBG6580 wireless cable modem gateway; Netgear’s CMD31B 8-by-4 cable modem and CG3200D Wireless-N voice/data cable gateway; CastleNet’s CBC-381 cable modem; SMC’s D3USG embedded multimedia terminal adapter (eMTA); and Ubee’s DVW3200 eMTA. The eMTAs from SMC and Ubee were also certified for PacketCable 1.5.
In addition, the cable R&D consortium certified two DOCSIS 2.0 products: Arris’ TM632A eMTA and AM Communications’ DSM3 cable modem.
Liberty Global Invests In Widevine
Seattle — Content-security firm Widevine Technologies has raised $15 million from international cable operator Liberty Global, Samsung Electronics and a third unnamed corporate investor.
Also last week, Blockbuster said it will use Widevine’s digital rights management and video-optimization software as a part of its video-on-demand service delivered to Internet-connected retail consumer electronics devices.
Previous investors in Widevine include Cisco Systems, Charter Ventures, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Telus and other venture-capital firms.
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