Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Broadcom launch first DOCSIS 3.0 chip

Options
  • 06-01-2006 8:14pm
    #1
    crawler
    Registered Users Posts: 1,660 ✭✭✭


    Seeking to seize the advantage in the silicon market, Broadcom Corp. unveiled a chip for
    advanced digital cable set-top boxes that incorporates channel-bonding technology at the
    Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas earlier today.

    Broadcom officials said the new BCM 3255 chip, designed to meet the standard of the cable
    industry's still emerging DOCSIS 3.0 spec, can bond up to three channels at one time.
    They said the chip can support channel speeds of up to 120 Mbps downstream rates with
    multiple HD AVC streams, downloadable conditional access system (DCAS) security features,
    up to 1600 DMIPs of processing power and a complete home networking package.

    Broadcom crafted the new set-top box chip to work with its equally new BCM 7400 dual HD
    advanced video coding (AVC)/VC/MPEG-2 decoder chip. They said the set-top box chip can be
    configured to operate with either current video channels or in a channel-bonding mode.
    Available today in sample quantities, it's priced at $32 each in 10,000-unit volumes.


Comments

  • Options
    #2
    paulm17781
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,858 ✭✭✭paulm17781


    How complex is channel bonding? Could all the channels be bonded to one very high speed one, for IPTV etc?


Advertisement