TEXAS INSTRUMENTS PROJECTS 600% GROWTH IN CABLE MODEM CHIP MARKET SHARE IN 2000.In less than a year and a half in the cable modem cable modem Modem used to convert analog data signals to digital form and vise versa, for transmission or receipt over cable television lines, especially for connecting to the Internet. business, Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. Incorporated (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : TXN TXN Texas Instruments (stock symbol) TXN Transaction (databases) TXN Tunxi, China (Airport Code) TXN Tarxien (postal locality, Malta) ) (TI) has garnered 30 percent of the market for 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 (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) A cable modem standard from the CableLabs research consortium (www.cablelabs.com), which provides equipment certification for interoperability. ) chips. TI estimates it will deliver three million of the nearly 10 million total units expected to ship this year, increasing TI's market share by 600 percent from 1999. Gartner Dataquest projects continued high growth in worldwide cable modem shipments during the next five years, with the potential to reach annual shipments of nearly 30 million units by the end of 2004, 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. Patti Reali, senior analyst for Dataquest. North America will start to shift away from worldwide standalone cable modem units as the market shifts to integrated broadband access and voice devices, Reali said. Additionally, Dataquest forecasts strong regional growth in Asia Pacific countries, including Japan, Korea and Taiwan, as well as selected Latin American countries. As the focus of the cable market shifts from high-speed data-only delivery to next-generation digital services such as voice and video, TI is uniquely positioned to realize even greater gains in market presence. TI already is the leader in voice-enabled cable modem technology with DOCSIS 1.1-ready hardware and software, industry-leading Telogy Software products and the world's most popular digital signal processors (DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive ). As the market grows, TI is equipped to grow with it. "Toshiba Corp. also has increased its share in the cable modem market in 2000," said Naotake Kurotsu, general manager of Toshiba's computer network platform division. "We appreciate TI's participation in our cable modem product development and we opted for TI because they share our commitment to deliver the high-performance, high-quality technology that is easily upgradeable as the market and our needs change." TI recently unveiled its newest voice-enabled cable modem solution. By building upon its industry-leading voice technology, TI has enabled cable operators to provide bundled services across all market segments such as primary line telephony for residential gateways, secondary line telephony for voice enabled cable modems, and multi-line offerings for multi-dwelling units (MDUs). "TI's DSP and software combination provides the technology required for real-time operations to enable digital voice and video services," said Eric Dewannain, general manager of TI's cable broadband communications business unit. "The market for next-generation services is ready to explode and TI is at the forefront of the technology vendors who will make it happen." |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion