Motorola Inc. (MOT) announced Monday it will be the first to sell DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems at retail. The gearmaker has an agreement to sell its DOCSIS 3.0-certified Motorola SURFboard modems through Fry’s Electronics stores across the United States.
The DOCSIS 3.0 standard enables faster Internet download / upload speeds — up to four times faster than DOCSIS 2.0 — and supports high-bandwidth Internet services as well as gaming, streaming video and multimedia downloads.
Motorola was awarded DOCSIS 3.0 certification by CableLabs in 2008 for both the Motorola SURFboard SB6120 cable modem and the Motorola SURFboard SBV6220 digital voice modem.
Motorola’s DOCSIS 3.0 modems include downstream channel bonding, support for IPv4 and IPv6, and advanced encryption services. They are also backwards compatible to DOCSIS 1.x /2.0 and can be deployed without service interruption.
The Motorola SB6120 and SBV6220 work in concert with Motorola’s NBBS Device Management Software Platform and Motorola’s eCare solution for remote customer configuration to provide service assurance to the consumer.
