May 20, 1996 Electronic Engineering Times
Santa Clara, Calif. -- Cable-modem startup Terayon Corp. and its financial backer Cisco Systems Inc., will present to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) new extensions to IP for a two-way data-over-CATV environment.
Cisco and Terayon plan to jointly develop a high-capascity cable head end based on Terayon's synchronous code-division-multiple-acciess technology. The two will work on the proposed I/F4 standard, defining the interface between routers and the Terayon head-end concentrator.
Terayon vice president of marketing Jacob Tanz said that the effort will complement existing standards efforts for cable modems within the IEEE 802.14 working group, the Davic ouncil, CableLabs, and the ATM Forum's Residential Broadband group.
Meanwhile, Terayon has expanded its executive staff with two key appointments. Dennis Picker, formerly the director of Motorola's cable data products business unit, has joined Terayon as vice president of engineering, a new position reporting to president and chief technology officer Shlomo Rakib. Masuma Ahmed, PhD, former standards project manager at CableLabs, has become Terayon's director of technical marketing, reporting to Tanz. |
