Quick Hits
by Staff -- Multichannel News, 6/2/2008
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Motorola Releases 'Wideband’ Module
Horsham, Pa. — Motorola announced commercial availability of a high-density card for its BSR 64000 cable-modem termination system — which supports the channel-bonding features of DOCSIS 3.0 — increasing the CMTS’s downstream capacity more than fivefold.
The TX32 Decoupled Downstream Module supports 32 quadrature amplitude modulation channels in a single slot in the Motorola BSR 64000. The module also incorporates Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and Advanced Encryption Services (AES).
When it originally announced the TX32 last June, Motorola expected to ship the module by the end of 2007.
The TX32’s downstream QAMs can be coupled with the downstream and upstream channels on existing 2:8 CMTS modules to provide up to 138 downstream channels in a single BSR 64000, for up to 5 Gigabits per second of aggregate downstream capacity. Without the TX32, the BSR 64000 supports a maximum of 24 downstream QAM channels.
Internet TV Startup Akimbo Shuts Down
San Mateo, Calif. — Akimbo, which had developed one of the first set-top boxes for playing Internet video on the TV, ceased operations after failing to get traction with its business-to-business services play.
Akimbo’s demise was first reported by blog site VentureBeat. The San Mateo, Calif., company recently had as many as 25 employees. Investors in the company included Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, AT&T, Blueprint Ventures and Cisco Systems. According to VentureBeat, Akimbo had raised a total of $47 million.
