Call it a bonding experience. BigBand Networks and Netgear are teaming up to offer an end-to-end channel bonding solution to cable operators so that they can offer data speeds of more than 100 Mbps to broadband customers.

Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading

May 17, 2006

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BigBand & Netgear Team on Channel Bonding

Call it a bonding experience. BigBand Networks and Netgear are teaming up to offer an end-to-end channel bonding solution to cable operators so that they can offer data speeds of more than 100 Mbps to their broadband subscribers. The two cable tech vendors announced earlier today that they are working to integrate Netgear's Channel Bonding Cable Modem (model CM232) with a modular CMTS solution that combines BigBand's Cuda CMTS and Broadband Multimedia-Service Edge (BME) devices. They said the joint effort will result in integrated end-to-end products that will enable MSOs to more than quadruple their current cable modem speeds. The channel bonding technology is based on the emerging DOCSIS 3.0 spec, which CableLabs is now preparing for release. Netgear and BigBand said they plan to demonstrate their integrated solution at several upcoming broadband industry events around the world.

About the Author(s)

Alan Breznick

Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading

Alan Breznick is a business editor and research analyst who has tracked the cable, broadband and video markets like an over-bred bloodhound for more than 20 years.

As a senior analyst at Light Reading's research arm, Heavy Reading, for six years, Alan authored numerous reports, columns, white papers and case studies, moderated dozens of webinars, and organized and hosted more than 15 -- count 'em --regional conferences on cable, broadband and IPTV technology topics. And all this while maintaining a summer job as an ostrich wrangler.

Before that, he was the founding editor of Light Reading Cable, transforming a monthly newsletter into a daily website. Prior to joining Light Reading, Alan was a broadband analyst for Kinetic Strategies and a contributing analyst for One Touch Intelligence.

He is based in the Toronto area, though is New York born and bred. Just ask, and he will take you on a power-walking tour of Manhattan, pointing out the tourist hotspots and the places that make up his personal timeline: The bench where he smoked his first pipe; the alley where he won his first fist fight. That kind of thing.

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