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Broadcom Introduces New Voice Chip

By: By Multi Channel News Staff Oct 21 2005 - 9:27am

Broadcom Corp. has introduced a new voice-over-cable-modem chip that it said reduces current costs and delivers improved performance.

The “BCM3368” incorporates new voice-over-Internet-protocol on enhanced RISC (reduced-instruction-set computer) processor architecture, and it cuts modem costs by 20%, Broadcom said.

The chip set can handle PacketCable and SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), plus potential cellular applications over cable plant. It includes advanced firewall technology.

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Study: Voice Drives Profitability

By: By Linda Haugsted Nov 26 2005 - 1:00am

Converged services could generate $1 trillion per year in sales by 2010, with voice-over-Internet protocol emerging as the most significant product development, according to a recent research study issued by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.

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Arris Voice Gear Raises 4Q Revenue

By: By Karen Brown Feb 9 2006 - 12:06pm

The booming cable-telephony-service market was good to Arris in the fourth quarter, as the cable-telephony and broadband-data gear provider showed strong revenue gains and a 39% jump in revenue for the full year.

In its preliminary fourth-quarter-2005 and year-end financial report, Suwanee, Ga.-based Arris posted revenues of $181.3 million for the fourth quarter, up from $129 million posted in the same quarter last year but a drop from the $201 million gathered in the third quarter of 2005.

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Voice, Broadband Poised For 'Bumper Year': Study

By: By Todd Spangler Mar 20 2008 - 9:38am

IBIS World Says Sectors Among Top 10 Growth Areas for 2008

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Arris Voice-Data Cable Modem Shipments Hit 20 Million

By: By Todd Spangler Jan 26 2009 - 5:17pm

Comcast Is Vendor's Largest Worldwide Customer

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Broadcom, Global IP Voice Codecs Pass Muster

By: By Matt Stump Aug 3 2004 - 9:20am

Voice codecs from Broadcom Corp. and Global IP Sound AB have been chosen by Cable Television Laboratories Inc. for future PacketCable 1.1- and 1.0-certified and qualified embedded multimedia-terminal adapters and public-switch-telephone-network media gateways.

The designations are pending successful conclusion of certain conditions, including demonstrations of multivendor interoperability, and they should kick in next April.

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Voice, Broadband Poised For 'Bumper Year': Study

IBIS World Says Sectors Among Top 10 Growth Areas for 2008
By: Todd Spangler Mar 20 2008 - 9:38am
IBIS World Says Sectors Among Top 10 Growth Areas for 2008

 

Even as the U.S. economy appears to be in a recession, two cable industry services – voice over Internet Protocol and broadband – will see double-digit growth in 2008, according to a study by research firm IBISWorld.

VoIP service topped IBISWorld’s list of the top 10 growth sectors for the year, with the firm predicting a 24.3% annual increase in revenues, to reach $3.19 billion.

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Arris Voice-Data Cable Modem Shipments Hit 20 Million

Comcast Is Vendor's Largest Worldwide Customer
By: Todd Spangler Jan 26 2009 - 9:17pm
Comcast Is Vendor's Largest Worldwide Customer

 

Arris announced Monday it has shipped 20 million embedded multimedia terminal adapters to cable operators worldwide, which include Comcast, its largest single customer.

 

Arris's Touchstone eMTAs are consumer-premises devices that deliver an Internet connection plus between one and 12 voice ports. According to research firm Infonetics, Arris has held the top market share worldwide in IP-based voice-and-data CPE for the past 15 quarters.

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IP Voice Suits Up for Business

Next-Generation Services Must Battle the Status Quo
By: Todd Spangler Apr 19 2009 - 12:05pm
Next-Generation Services Must Battle the Status Quo

 

Sometimes customers can't be persuaded to switch to a next-generation service, even if it far outshines what they're currently using.

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SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2010: Suddenlink Makes IP Voice Fail-Safe

MSO Deploys Genband C20 Softswitches for Disaster Recovery
By: Todd Spangler Oct 20 2010 - 4:01am
MSO Deploys Genband C20 Softswitches for Disaster Recovery

 

Suddenlink Communications will lets its voice-over-IP subscribers keep talking -- even in the event a hurricane or other disaster knocks one of its facilities offline.

The MSO, the seventh-largest U.S. cable operator with 1.3 million customers, has fully deployed Genband's C20 Converged Softswitch with a geographically survivable telecommunications systems core to ensure subscriber IP voice calls can go through.

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