CableLabs Certifies General Instrument and Arris Interactive Cable Modems.LOUISVILLE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 6, 1999-- Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., (CableLabs(R)) today announced that it has certified for retail sale cable modems from General Instrument (GI) and Arris ar·ris n. pl. arris or ar·ris·es The sharp edge or ridge formed by two surfaces meeting at an angle, as in a molding. [Alteration of Old French areste, fishbone, spine Interactive (formerly Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony ). This announcement means that five suppliers' products now are supported for retail sale. The other certified suppliers are 3Com, Toshiba, and Thomson Consumer Electronics. Additionally, CableLabs has qualified headend equipment needed for interoperable high-speed data distribution from Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. . The GI and Arris announcement results from additional testing necessary to isolate the source of nonconformance with the cable modem specification which otherwise would have resulted in these suppliers' products not being certified. In the cases of GI and Arris, this conformance issue was the only reason for their failing certification, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Rouzbeh Yassini Rouzbeh Yassini is an Iranian-American engineer, self-credited with creating the cable modem and helped propel broadband through cable. He was the founder of LANcity and helped establish the cable modem industry standard (DOCSIS) through Cable Television Laboratories. , executive consultant to CableLabs and leader of the CableLabs(R) Certified(TM) cable modem program. The Certification Committee authorized additional time to conduct testing to isolate the nonconformance. Once the issue was identified, and it was determined that the modems were not the source of the nonconformance, the Committee authorized certification. The next certification wave will start on May 12 as previously scheduled, and is the third such wave scheduled for this year. It is anticipated that as many as a dozen vendors will apply for certification in this wave. "Testing and evaluation to determine certification is a very complex and sophisticated process," said Dr. Richard R. Green, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of CableLabs. "Finding these kinds of glitches and remedying them is an important part of this certification process," Green added. "We want to make sure that our members and retail customers have as many certified modems to choose from as possible without compromising the cable modem specification conformance. At the same time, we have to make sure our data are unquestionable," he added. The retail certified modems are identifiable by a CableLabs(R) Certified(TM) seal. This seal will inform consumers and cable operators that a modem complies with the CableLabs' cable modem specification. It also states that it will interoperate with qualified cable system headends, which soon will be deployed in a substantial number of systems worldwide. Cable modems are used to provide high-speed Internet See broadband. and data access. Cable modems are always connected and, unlike telephone industry modems, do not require re-dialing to a service provider. In addition, because the connection is via two-way cable, consumers do not tie up their telephone line for Internet surfing when using a cable modem to access the Internet. The certified cable modems can coexist in cable systems with existing, proprietary cable modems. Manufacturers who receive CableLabs certification for their high-speed cable modems have successfully completed an extensive series of interoperability tests supported by CableLabs' membership. Modems were tested against headend equipment supplied by four different manufacturers. As part of the certification test process, suppliers were asked to work in CableLabs facilities in pre-market, pre-competitive testing and evaluation in order to prove their compliance with the industry-supported program and technology. As part of the certification process, suppliers self-test their products at their own facilities prior to submission to CableLabs. CableLabs certification focuses on how well suppliers' cable modem and headend equipment adhere to adhere to verb 1. follow, keep, maintain, respect, observe, be true, fulfil, obey, heed, keep to, abide by, be loyal, mind, be constant, be faithful 2. the defined interface specifications. The existing DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) A cable modem standard from the CableLabs research consortium (www.cablelabs.com), which provides equipment certification for interoperability. cable modem architecture is flexible enough to enable each broadband service provider An ISP, telephone company, cable company or other carrier that offers high-speed communications to homes and businesses, typically for Internet access. Cable modems, DSL and T1 lines are the common technologies. See broadband, cable modem, DSL and T1. to customize multiple service tiers. In addition to the unprecedented speed, cable modems also offer ease of installation, robust reliability, and data encryption of all information conveyed by the certified modems. CableLabs has managed the interoperable cable modem process, previously known as Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (communications, networking) Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification - (DOCSIS) ITU-approved interface requirements for cable modems involved in high-speed data distribution over a cable television network. (DOCSIS) for the past three years. In that time, the effort has achieved cable and vendor consensus on a series of definitions of key interconnection points in a cable data distribution network. It also has achieved North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. (by the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers) and international (by the International Telecommunications Union See ITU. (body, standard) International Telecommunications Union - (ITU) ITU-T, the telecommunication standardisation sector of ITU, is responsible for making technical recommendations about telephone and data (including fax) communications systems for PTTs and suppliers. ) standardization using key elements of DOCSIS. CableLabs is a research and development consortium of cable television system operators representing the continents of North America and South America. CableLabs plans and funds research and development projects that will help cable companies take advantage of future opportunities and meet future challenges in provision of television, data, and Internet services to consumers. It also transfers relevant technologies to member companies and to the industry. In addition, CableLabs acts as a clearinghouse to provide information on current and prospective technological developments that are of interest to the cable industry. CableLabs maintains web sites at www.cablelabs.com; www.cablemodem.com; www.cablenet.org; www.opencable.com; and www.packetcable.com |
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