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Cable operators are the leading providers of digital video services to consumers, whether its standard definition or high-definition television (HDTV) delivered in broadcast or on-demand formats. This is the place to learn more about the infrastructure solution providers for the digital cable market.

  • Digital Cable Set-Top Box Vendors
    Companies offering digital cable set-top boxes

    Table 1: Digital Cable Set-Top Box Vendors
    Vendor Product Notes
    Motorola DCT6400 Dual-tuner HDTV & DVR digital cable set-top
    Motorola DCT6200 Single-tuner HDTV & DVR digital cable set-top
    Scientific-Atlanta Explorer 8300 Multi-Room DVR Pending digital cable set-top will extend DVR to 4 more TV sets
    Scientific-Atlanta Explorer 8000HD Series Dual-tuner HDTV & DVR digital cable set-top
    Pace Micro Technology TDC460 Dual-tuner DVR digital cable set-top
    Pace Micro Technology DC610 & 620 2-way digital cable set-tops with built-in DOCSIS cable modems
    Pace Micro Technology TDC 775 Dual-tuner HDTV & DVR digital cable set-top
    Pace Micro Technology DC511 & 551 Single-tuner digital cable & HDTV set-tops

  • Edge QAM Platform Vendors
    Companies offering edge QAM upconversion and modulation products, an essential network element for broadcast and on-demand digital video service delivery

    Table 2: Edge QAM Platform Vendors
    Vendor Product Notes
    BigBand Networks BME50 Support for 24 QAM channels with 2:1 RF upconversion in a 1.5 RU chassis
    Motorola SmartStream Encryptor/Modulator (SEM) Supports services across 8 separate 64 or 256 QAM cable channels in 1RU
    Scientific-Atlanta QUASAR MKII QAM modulator
    VCom UCM4540 Digital QAM modulator/upconverter
    Cisco Systems uMG9850 QAM Module for Catalyst 4500 Maximum of 120 QAM channels per Catalyst switch
    RGB Networks SEP48, BNP Video Intelligence Architecture (VIA) integrates video processing & high-density edge QAM
    Tandberg Television EQ6800 Up to 24 QAM channels from a 1RU chassis
    Arris Keystone D5 DMTS Supports digital broadcast and VOD applications and can ingest up to 1,488 simultaneous MPEG-2 transport streams

  • Video Processing Platform Vendors
    Companies offering platforms for digital video grooming, rate shaping, statistical multiplexing, and digital ad insertion

    Table 3: Video Processing Platform Vendors
    Vendor Product Notes
    BigBand BMR 100 and BMR12000 Digital video statmux & bit-rate adaptation, video & data remux, splicing, MPEG & IP switching, BMR12000 supports 100 6MHz channels
    Motorola SmartStream Transcoder Provides MPEG-2 service multiplexing, grooming, video bit-rate transcoding & IP data encapsulation
    Terayon DM 6400 Network CherryPicker, DM 3200 Network CherryPicker DM 6400 handles 16 HD streams and/or 64 SD streams with any video application, DM 3200 handles 32 SD streams
    Cisco Systems 6920 RateMUX MPEG-2 statistical remultiplexing system for cable networks
    RGB Networks SEP48, BNP Video Intelligence Architecture (VIA) integrates video processing & high-density edge QAM
    SkyStream Networks Mediaplex-20 MPEG-2 encoding, multiplex & de-multiplex, in-band IP data injection & retrieval

  • VOD Server Vendors
    Providers of server platforms for video-on-demand digital streaming

    Table 4: VOD Server Vendors
    Vendor Product Notes
    Broadbus Technologies B-1 Video Server D-RAM-based product with capacity to support up to 19,200 MPEG-2 streams
    SeaChange International ITV MediaCluster 12012, 12024 & 9300 Video Servers 3 models with capacity to support up to 19,400 MPEG-2 streams
    MidStream Technologies V1, V10 & V2 Video Servers 3 models with capacity to support at least 10,000 MPEG-2 streams
    N2 Broadband OpenStream VOD Solution OpenStream platform supports video servers from multiple vendors
    Concurrent Computer MediaHawk Video Servers VOD server & software solutions
    Kasenna MediaBase XMP Video Servers Based on low-cost, standard Intel/Linux servers, 4 models offered with up to 1.6 Gbit/s per server
    Entone Technologies SL 3350 VOD Server Model supports up to 1,200 simultaneous MPEG-2 streams
    nCube n4x On Demand Server Scaleable, hypercube architecture can support up to 60,000 simultaneous MPEG-2 streams
    VBrick Systems EtherneTV-NXG VOD Servers Two Linux-based models support MPEG-2 & MPEG-4 formats
    Arroyo Video Solutions Intel-based server Arroyo Video Accelerator software can support up to 12,000 simultaneous MPEG-2 streams

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