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Vyyo (News - Alert) Inc., Motorola, Inc. and StarHub have successfully tested the DOCSIS 3.0 services with speeds of more than 145 Mbps. The testing involved StarHub’s hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) network, Motorola’s (News - Alert) network products and Vyyo’s UltraBand Spectrum Overlay solutions.

 

With a spectrum of up to 3 GHz, Vyyo's Spectrum Overlay solutions provide increased upstream and downstream bandwidth. These solutions, together with DOCSIS 3.0 network equipment, enable MSOs to achieve higher bandwidth speeds.

 

In addition, Vyyo's solutions including the XHUB node product, XFR trunk amplifier and XTB CPE device which increase downstream bandwidth two-fold and upstream bandwidth four-fold. These, combined with Motorola’s distinguished HFC network solutions like the Motorola BSR 64000 Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) and Motorola SB6100 channel-bonding cable modems, have met with considerable success in lab and field trials in Singapore.

"There has been considerable discussion over the past year regarding cable's ability to meet future residential and business services bandwidth needs," said Kevin Keefe, vice president of marketing and business development, Motorola Connected Home Solutions. "Through our work in Singapore and elsewhere with technologies like Vyyo Spectrum Overlay, we are proving that the industry has the flexibility within its existing HFC plant and DOCSIS 3.0 based network equipment like the Motorola BSR 64000 CMTS, to deliver the Ultra-Broadband data services that readily meet and exceed consumer broadband needs of the future."

 

"As we plan the network facility necessary to deliver DOCSIS 3.0 Ultra-Broadband services, the ability to leverage our existing infrastructure investment will be critically important," said Thomas Ee, senior vice president for StarHub's Cable, Fixed and IP Services. "Our tests with Motorola and Vyyo are an important step down the path toward delivering the services that are envisioned as part of the Next Generation National Broadband Network."

"Cable system operators worldwide have tremendous investments and expertise in HFC architectures," said Al Johnson, senior vice president and general manager, Spectrum Overlay services for Vyyo. "We're pleased to be working with Motorola and StarHub, two leading companies, to show how operators can cost-effectively deliver new services using the bandwidth created by our Spectrum Overlay solution."

Divya Narain is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.

 

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