BigBand Networks Inc., provider of broadband multimedia infrastructure for video, voice and data, and NETGEAR Inc., provider of branded networking products, have announced successful integration of their products for channel bonding.
Channel bonding is designed to combine multiple downstream cable modem channels for higher broadband access speeds. Based on emerging DOCSIS standards from CableLabs, channel bonding practices have the potential to increase broadband subscribers' downstream access speeds by factors ranging from two to 20 or more.
The companies have integrated the NETGEAR CM232 Channel Bonding Cable Modem with a modular cable modem termination system (CMTS) solution that combines the BigBand Cuda CMTS and BigBand BME (broadband multimedia-service edge). The M-CMTS (modular cable modem termination system) approach is designed to enhance cost effectiveness, density and performance in the headend by dissociating DOCSIS media access control functionality on a CMTS platform from physical quadrature amplitude modulation functionality on an edge platform.
“With increasing competition between service providers to provide the fastest Internet access, BigBand Networks and NETGEAR are providing timely solutions for the cable industry to achieve downstream speeds of 100 megabits per second or more,” said David James, director of broadband service provider products at NETGEAR. “Moreover, this integration highlights our companies’ dedication to enabling technologies like channel bonding through standards-based interoperability between best-of-breed components from multiple vendors like the BigBand modular CMTS solution and the NETGEAR CM232 Channel Bonding Cable Modem.”
BigBand Networks www.bigbandnet.com
NETGEAR Inc. www.netgear.com
