World's Fastest Cable Modem Supports Eight Downstream DOCSIS Channels Enabling Cable Operators to Deliver Advanced High-Speed Services
Announced today is the BCM3380 family of fully integrated cable solutions. Designed to be highly cost effective, the BCM3380 family is the first set of DOCSIS 3.0 silicon solutions that are truly single-chip, requiring only memory to provide complete DOCSIS functionality. The new SoC family integrates the world's first flexible QAM receiver with split wide-band tuners that do not have the channel lineup limitations of single frequency window solutions. An integrated multi-channel upstream power amplifier eliminates the need for any costly external power amplifiers, and integrated Gigabit Ethernet and USB transceivers reduce the cost of external components.
The BCM3380 family of cable modem solutions meet or exceed the minimum requirements for the DOCSIS/Euro-DOCSIS 3.0 standard. These single-chip BCM3380 silicon solutions provide complete compatibility with prior DOCSIS 2.0, 1.1 and 1.0 specifications and go well beyond the DOCSIS 3.0 specification to provide advanced features such as bonding support for up to eight simultaneous DOCSIS channels.
To meet the demands of advanced applications, the use of eight DOCSIS channels has become an industry expectation, surpassing the four channel minimum requirement set forth in the DOCSIS 3.0 specification. With eight downstream DOCSIS channels, the BCM3380 family not only delivers twice the speed of other DOCSIS 3.0 solutions, but is also optimized to support advanced services. As such, all BCM3380 solutions include IP video support hardware that allows an operator to deploy low cost Internet Protocol video to PCs and to set-top boxes (IP-STB) without costly changes to its existing infrastructure.
"DOCSIS 3.0 solutions like this are supporting the industry's evolution from broadband to wideband," said
Also designed to be highly robust, BCM3380 solutions are based on Broadcom's existing DOCSIS software platform, which has been deployed in tens of millions of DOCSIS-based solutions. Based on the proven software architecture and real time operating system (RTOS) as current DOCSIS 2.0 products, Broadcom's DOCSIS 3.0 software is fully compliant with the DOCSIS 2.0/1.x specification. Adding Broadcom's existing CablexChange(R) voice software suite and CableMedea(TM) gateway software, BCM3380-based solutions can be rapidly developed to support data, voice or gateway applications.
"The anticipated DOCSIS 3.0 specification addresses many next generation cable modem requirements and has taken the industry almost five years to fully embrace," said
Availability and Pricing
The BCM3380 family of channel bonding silicon solutions for DOCSIS/Euro-DOCSIS 3.0 applications is now sampling to early access customers and includes solutions for data cable modems, voice cable modems and gateway modems. Complete reference designs are available that provide both certification and production-ready hardware and software for turnkey solutions. Pricing is available on request.
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