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June 21, 2006
BigBand and NETGEAR Unite for Faster Broadband Access
By Johanne Torres, TMCnet Contributing Editor
BigBand Networks and NETGEAR announced on Wednesday their successful integration of their products for channel bonding. The move will combine multiple downstream cable modem channels to enable higher broadband access speeds.
“With increasing competition between service providers to provide the fastest Internet access, BigBand Networks and NETGEAR are providing timely solutions for the cable industry to achieve downstream speeds of 100 megabits per second or more,” said David James, director of broadband service provider products for NETGEAR, in a statement.
James continued: “Moreover, this integration highlights our companies' dedication to enabling technologies like channel bonding through standards-based interoperability between best-of-breed components from multiple vendors like the BigBand modular CMTS solution and the NETGEAR CM232 Channel Bonding Cable Modem.”
According to the companies' news release, “channel bonding practices have potential to increase broadband subscribers' downstream access speeds by factors ranging from 2 to 20 or more.”
The new partnership will enable NETGEAR CM232 Channel Bonding Cable Modem with a modular CMTS (cable modem termination system) to integrate with the BigBand Cuda CMTS and BigBand BME (Broadband Multimedia-Service Edge).
The M-CMTS will offer reduced costs, density and performance in the headend by dissociating DOCSIS MAC (media access control) functionality on a CMTS platform from physical QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) functionality on an edge platform.
BigBand made news last week when it announced that OneLink Communications completed deployment of the BigBand Cuda CMTS (cable modem termination system). The Puerto Rican operator selected this platform to replace previously deployed equipment in its upgrade to DOCSIS 2.0 which in order to achieve high access speeds at improved reliability and quality of service.
With 138,000 subscribers in the greater San Juan area, OneLink Communications is one of the largest cable operator in Puerto Rico.
BigBand Networks, Inc.
NETGEAR, Inc.
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Johanne Torres is contributing editor for TMCnet and Internet Telephony magazine. To see more articles by Johanne Torres, please visit Johanne's columnist page.
(source: http://news.tmcnet.com/news/-bigband-networks-netgear-broadband-access-speed-/2006/06/21/1691710.htm)
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