DOCSIS Certification Pace Slows

DOCSIS Certification Pace Slows

Alan Breznick, Principal Analyst, Heavy Reading

May 19, 2005

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It looks like it will be an up-and-down year for CableLabs' approval of new tech equipment. In its latest certification wave, the cable industry's R&D consortium appears to have put its stamp on just one new piece of gear, a DOCSIS 2.0 cable modem from Toshiba. Specifically, CableLabs certified Toshiba's PCX3200 model during Certification Wave (CW) #35, which concluded last week. The Toshiba modem joins the Arris TTM402P Phase 2, another DOCSIS 2.0 modem that CableLabs actually certified last month during CW #34 but counted as an early CW #35 certification. The slow third certification wave of the year follows a sluggish first wave that saw CableLabs approve just three devices and a bustling second wave that saw the consortium pass 17 products. CableLabs officials say they expect to see the cycles continue to fluctuate wildly now that they are staging eight certification waves a year, twice as many as in years past.

About the Author

Alan Breznick

Principal Analyst, Heavy 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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