3Com, Arris and GI Modems
Certified By CableLabs
Eight Vendors Fail to Make the Grade,
DOCSIS 1.1 Certification Will Not
Begin Until April 2000
<Picture>3Com Corp., Arris Interactive and General Instrument Corp. obtained certification from Cable Television Laboratories Inc. for their Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) 1.0 modem during "Wave 8" testing that ended in late April.
The total number of "CableLabs Certified" vendors now stands at five,as Thomson Consumer Electronics and Toshiba America InformationSystems Inc. were certified in March.
These vendors earn the right to affix a CableLabs seal on their DOCSIS modems, informing buyers that the product is guaranteed to interoperate with other certified products.
Eight vendors failed to make the grade in the latest CableLabs tests -- Askey, Cisco Systems, Com21, Motorola, Philips, Samsung, Sony, and Zenith.
With only five certified DOCSIS vendors, the possibility of a major cable modem retail push in 1999 is increasingly remote. A number of retail trials are underway, but vendors do not expect to ship DOCSIS modems through retail in volume until 2000. |
