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According to Infonetics Research, MoCA is driving growth in the home networking device market, particularly shipments of video gateways in North America. Sales of set-top boxes with embedded MoCA technology grew 23% in the second half of 2012, while MoCA … Continue reading
Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) announced the launch of its newest Xfinity Wireless Gateway, which the MSO says offers the nation’s fastest wireless speeds with the most coverage throughout the connected home. The new gateway uses the 5.0 GHz radio frequency and also … Continue reading
Multimedia home gateways are not only gateways to consumer electronics devices in subscribers’ houses and apartments. They also are the gateways to increased revenues and, to a great extent, the cable industry’s multiscreen and advanced services future. The importance of … Continue reading
According to ABI Research, the first significant shipments of the HomePlug AV2 and MoCA 2.0 standards will be seen in 2013, offering higher speeds as well as more robustness under different line conditions. ABI expects North American MoCA households to … Continue reading
At CES in Las Vegas, ARRIS (NASDAQ:ARRS) announced and demonstrated a whole-home network and entertainment system: the ARRIS Media Gateway MG2402 based on the Reference Design Kit (RDK) from Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA). Intended for quad play services, the MG2402 is designed … Continue reading
The chip vendors were out in force at CES in Las Vegas this year, with both new silicon and deployment announcements. Broadcom (NASDAQ:BRCM) announced that its fourth generation DOCSIS 3.0 system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions have achieved 1 Gbps downstream speeds by … Continue reading
NETGEAR‘s (NASDAQ:NTGR) CG4500 Voice/Data Gateway has received the CableLabs DOCSIS 3.0 certification. It’s powered by MaxLinear‘s (NYSE:MXL) MxL267 Full-Spectrum Capture (FSC) digital cable front-end receiver. The new gateway is designed for 24 x 4 channel bonding, concurrent dual band wireless, … Continue reading
Entropic Communications (NASDAQ:ENTR) and Cortina Systems announced their joint collaboration on a reference design for broadband routers and headless gateways. The reference design is intended to help service providers and equipment manufacturers address needs for higher broadband speeds, newer applications … Continue reading
DirecTV (NASDAQ:DTV) says it has joined the board of directors of the Multimedia over Coax Alliance. DirecTV, a MoCA Promoter member, joined the Alliance in 2008 and has been deploying devices integrating MoCA technology since 2009.
Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) has upgraded its membership in the Multimedia over Coax Alliance from Contributor to Promoter. Jim Crammond, CTO of gateway solutions within Intel’s service provider division, will represent Intel on MoCA’s board of directors. Contributor level members are eligible … Continue reading
The future of in-home video networking in North America for all service providers – not just cable operators – will be dominated by a combination of coax cable and WiFi, with other approaches, such as home networking over electrical networks, … Continue reading
According to Infonetics Research, MoCA is expected to become the de facto wired technology for video distribution in the home, largely driven by multiscreen video. The research house says MoCA home networking devices are growing at a faster rate than … Continue reading
Although men far outnumber women at this week’s Cable-Tec Expo in Orlando, one of the opening sessions featured four top women technologists from large MSOs. The executives shared their visions of cable’s future, with WiFi and the cloud emerging as … Continue reading
