Linksys Links Into Cable-Modem Market
By Karen Brown -- Multichannel News, 4/3/2002 7:02:00 AM
Add home-networking provider Linksys Group Inc. to the list of companies now in the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification game.
The Irvine, Calif.-based company's 'EtherFast' modem won DOCSIS 1.0 certification in the latest testing round at Cable Television Laboratories Inc., and it has gained the system stamp of approval from Adelphia Communications Corp., AT&T Broadband, Cable One Inc., Cablevision Systems Corp, Charter Communications Inc., Comcast Corp., Cox Communications Inc., Mediacom Communications Corp. and Time Warner Cable.
The modem, which is DOCSIS 1.1-upgradable, will sell for $129.99.
The EtherFast modem has universal-serial-bus and Ethernet ports, the latter of which can be used to link home-networking routers to share the Internet connection between multiple computers.
Linksys is looking to the new modem to fill out its home-networking lineup, which already includes network-interface cards, routers, switches and cabling using Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, wireless, HomePNA and Powerline connection schemes.
Linksys estimated that it will ship about 1 million cable modems this year.
'The growth of broadband availability relies on complete end-to-end offerings that include the modem and network-sharing hardware like routers and network adapters,' vice president of business development and broadband services Janie Tsao said in a release.
'The addition of the cable modem to our product line enables cable subscribers to build their entire cable network on Linksys solutions,' Tsao added. 'This is a major advantage for consumers, since all of their network troubleshooting can be done with one phone call to Linksys (free of charge), [and they can] feel confident that all of the hardware will be compatible for simple setup.'
The company plans to introduce more modems and residential home-networking gateways in the coming months.
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