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Leslie Ellis contributed to this story. The cable modem vendor and operations communities will cross a major milestone in the standardization process this week, just as the route toward selling [...]

Microtune Inc. filed a lawsuit against chip giant Broadcom Corp. last week, claiming its competitor's 'BCM3415' microchip infringes on its 'tuner-on-a-chip' patent. Microtune, which filed the suit on Jan. 24 [...]

Cable Television Laboratories Inc. has tapped VeriSign Inc. as its root-certificate authority (root CA), charged with handling the digital certificates used to shield cable modems and multimedia terminal adapters from [...]

MILPITAS, CALIF. -- Com21 Inc. said the National Cable Television Cooperative Inc. (NCTC) has selected it as the organization's preferred vendor for cable modems, headend equipment and other broadband gear. [...]

Top 5 percentage gainers: Pegasus Communications 9.33 Crown Media Holdings 7.87 Insight Communications Inc. 6.63 EchoStar Communications Corp. 6.27 Shop at Home 5.56 Top 5 percentage losers: Antec -32.52 C-COR.net [...]

MINNEAPOLIS -- ADC Telecommunications Inc. said Cox Communications will integrate its 'Cuda 12000 IP Access Switch' in the MSO's Mid-America Region. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. ADC's [...]

DALLAS - ZyXEL Communications Corp. said it would integrate Microtune Inc.'s 'MT2030' single-chip tuner in its line of 'Prestige' cable modems, which support both the North American and European versions [...]

BroadJump Inc. said cable giant AT&T Broadband has agreed to deploy its 'Virtual Truck Installer' provisioning software in six markets, following a six-month evaluation by the MSO. After completing a [...]

Terayon Communications Systems Inc. took another step toward becoming more than just a player in the digital-video and high-speed data realm with its introduction of 'BandLeader,' a switched voice-over-Internet protocol [...]

Cable-modem maker Com21 shot up 31 percent over a week, from $10.50 on Nov. 1 to $13.75 on Nov. 7, as investors began to warm up to broadband stocks again. [...]

Eight companies are seeking certification for cable modems and CMTSs. With sharpened No. 2 pencils in hand, a small cadre of cable-equipment vendors stands ready to face the biggest test [...]

OYSTER BAY, N.Y. -- Helped in part by early market entry, the cable modem will continue to dominate the residential highspeed sector, Allied Business Intelligence forecast in a recent report. [...]

SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -- Com21 Inc. has agreed to license SonicWALL Inc.'s Internet-security technology and integrate it with its line of cable modems, allowing operators to provide secure access to high-speed [...]

It was one of those one-liners that make you put the paper down and say, 'Hmmm. How could that be?' The last sentence in a consumer-electronics trade magazine article about [...]

With little fanfare, the first batch of DOCSIS 1.1-based cable modems entered CableLabs' test queue late last month -- the week after Diversity Week, to be exact. The testing mile-marker [...]

Louisville, Colo. -- Cable Television Laboratories Inc. said three more headend-equipment vendors have obtained Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification 1.0-qualified status: RiverDelta Networks Inc., Riverstone Networks Inc. and Terayon [...]

Terayon Corp., best known in the U.S. for its cable modems, is ramping up efforts to become a global satellite-equipment vendor. Two announcements at last month's International Broadcasting Conference in [...]

HORSHAM, PA. -- Motorola Broadband Communications Sector said Charter Communications Inc. has placed an order to purchase at least 300,000 'SB3100' and 'SB4100' 'SURFborad' cable modems by the end of [...]

Lucent Technologies' heritage as a provider of advanced technologies to the global communications market is a key component to the company's drive into the cable industry. Cutting-edge technological expertise is [...]

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, consider digital subscriber line providers a big fan of the cable industry's long-standing strategy of building a mass retail market for cable [...]

Mark your calendars. Oct. 23 could become an important date in the evolution of the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification and the PacketCable initiative. Following several delays that pushed [...]

The long and winding road to retail for so called cable-ready PCs is garnering wider support in the wake of Cable Television Laboratories Inc.'s recent certification of internal cable modems [...]

LOUISVILLE, COLO. -- Cable Television Laboratories Inc. certified five cable modems, including two more 'plug-and-play' universal-serial-bus models. Equipment vendor ASUSTeK Computer Inc. was the only new supplier to gain the [...]

Giving the cable-modem retail market a shot in the arm, Cable Television Laboratories Inc. announced last week that it had granted Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification 1.0 certification to [...]

MILPITAS, CALIF. -- Cable-modem manufacturer Com2l Inc. is buying BitCom Inc., a privately held engineering-consulting firm based in Germantown, Md., for $4 million in cash. BitCom -- which specializes in [...]

The move to digital-based distribution channels is giving rise to a whole new array of opportunities for cable operators, including Internet-provision services, Webcasting, interactivity, home shopping and content on-demand. But [...]

Powerful forces are reshaping the computing, communications and content landscape, creating new partnerships, driving mergers and spurring acquisitions. Armed with a vision, the cable industry is in the midst of [...]

Riding the wave of popularity for PC-based home-networking applications, vendors are beginning to target the cable industry with new products and services to make home networks more palatable for uneasy [...]

Los ANGELES -- Hughes Network Systems said last Friday that it would add two-way broadband capabilities to its DirecPC satellite-data service in the fourth quarter. The company will keep serving [...]

Shareholders filed five lawsuits last week against modem-maker Terayon Communication Systems Inc., claiming that the company violated securities laws by disseminating false and misleading statements concerning cable-modem certification. The suits [...]

STOCK FOCUS Top 5 Percentage Gainers: Antec 18.92 Insight Communications 15.27 ADC Telecommunications 6.05 CSG Systems 5.36 Lucent 2.72 Top 5 Percentage Losers: Terayon Communication -53.65 TiVo Inc. -26.76 ValueVision [...]

NEW YORK -- Cable companies may face some bumps in the road if they continue to stick to a closed-system architecture in an Internet-protocol world. So said Intertainer Inc. CEO [...]

Cable-modem technology is gaining new traction in the marketplace with the introduction of the first standards-based units with plug-and-play functionality, as well as new deals that support retail distribution of [...]

Cable engineers sizing up ways to move to a more distributed data-network architecture will have an ever broader array of options to choose from as a new generation of edge [...]

Offering its cable modems through Cablevision's The Wiz stores 'has been enormously successful for us,' Falese said. 'We'd like to see last year's activity accelerated.' Newly promoted Cablevision Systems Corp. [...]

Comcast Corp.'s announcement that it will purchase 1 million interactive digital consumer terminals and cable modems from Motorola Inc.'s broadband-communications sector is further evidence that cable companies are making a [...]

Revenue more than tripled at Terayon Communication Systems Inc. for the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31, and the company reported its first pro forma profit since its formation [...]

Former AT&T Broadband & Internet Services CEO Leo J. Hindery Jr. has re-entered the cable business -- on the programming side -- making what he termed a 'significant' investment in [...]

ANAHEIM, CALIF. -- Home networks and the interconnection of household devices and appliances through wired and wireless applications are gaining momentum, pushing technology deep into customers' homes. 'Home networks are [...]

Leading suppliers of full-rate and 'Lite' digital-subscriber-line platforms have set the stage for wide-scale retail availability of their modems this year, using the recent Consumer Electronics Show as a forum [...]

LOS ANGELES -- With deployments of standards-based cable modems well under way, vendors have started to push self-provisioning and other solutions expected to kick the rollouts into high gear. Major [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Interactive television grabbed the technology spotlight at last week's Western Show here, less for any blockbuster new products than for the wave of development, deployment and investment [...]

LOUISVILLE, COLO. -- In some ways, the past is prologue for Rouzbeh Yassini, who is wrapping up his role as leader of the industry's cable-modem-interoperability initiative and focusing on the [...]

Terayon Communication Systems Inc. has landed Cable Television Laboratories Inc. veteran Richard Prodan to help spearhead its push beyond the high-speed-data side of the cable-infrastructure business. Prodan -- a nine-year [...]

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. -- 3Com Corp. said it has begun shipping its first product based on the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HomePNA) 2.0 standard for 10-megabit-per-second data speeds. The company's [...]

DENVER -- Several MSO senior engineers were scratching their heads late last week over how they were going to get their new six-foot surfboards home. General Instrument Corp. apparently sent [...]

Cable operators' deployment of advanced services is trickling down to their vendors' bottom lines. A handful of cable-technology companies released earnings reports last week, and by and large, all of [...]

Silicon giant Intel Corp. made its long-awaited entry into the cable market, buying the telecommunications components business of Stanford Telecommunications Inc. in an all-cash deal. The acquisition immediately gives Intel [...]

NEW YORK -- Like Broadway producers who start their plays in New Haven, Time Warner Cable marketed Road Runner elsewhere and learned from its mistakes before hitting the big time [...]

SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- Sprint Communications Co. agreed to invest $11 million in Hybrid Newtworks Inc. and to buy another $10 million of equipment from the wireless-cable modem provider. In [...]