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To: Kerry Lee who wrote (1358)	12/9/1999 2:51:00 PM
From: zbyslaw owczarczyk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2347

More details about COM21 modems : cabledatacomnews.com Com21 and Best Data Modems Certified A Total of 13 Vendors Now Shipping CableLabs Certified DOCSIS 1.0 Cable Modems DECEMBER 9, 1999 Data Over Cable Services Interface Specification (DOCSIS) cable modems from Com21 Inc. and Best Data Products were certified by Cable Television Laboratories Inc. during wave 11 testing, which concluded in early December. DOCSIS modems from General Instrument and Thomson Consumer Electronics were re-certified. Obtaining certification is particularly sweet for Com21, which has failed to clear the bar at CableLabs throughout 1999. Com21 submitted a total of five modems for wave 11 testing, two were based on the company's DOXport 1010 design and two on its new DOXport 101 product. The DOXport 1010 is the first modem to gain DOCSIS 1.0 certification using Broadcom Corp.'s BCM3300 single-chip DOCSIS physical layer (PHY) and media access control (MAC) solution. Broadcom positions the chip as "DOCSIS 1.1 capable," meaning it has the potential to be upgraded to the next-generation DOCSIS standard via software. Com21 has also added enhanced radio frequency (RF) capabilities and a packet accelerator to the DOXport 1010 to boost performance and position the modem as a premium-priced product. Com21's lower-cost DOXport 101 modem uses a design from TurboNet Communications, including TurboNet's DOCSIS 1.0 MAC chip and a PHY from Texas Instruments. The product is intended to compete with the offerings of incumbent players like Toshiba America Information Systems, whose PCX1000 DOCSIS 1.0 modem uses the same TurboNet design. "We believe there are segments of the market that are price sensitive and we'll compete there," said Buck Gee, Com21's vice president of marketing. Best Data also used the TurboNet design in its certified modem. CableLabs is continuing to test modems submitted in wave 11 by Ericsson and Motorola that use a universal serial bus (USB) interface. Only modems with an Ethernet interface have been certified to date. It seems unlikely that Motorola's USB DOCSIS modem will pass, since two Ethernet-based modems it submitted in wave 11 did not make the grade. As a result, Motorola still will not have a certified DOCSIS modem by year-end 1999. However, through its pending acquisition of General Instrument, Motorola will gain a strong DOCSIS product portfolio in the New Year. Other vendors that failed to obtain certification for the first time in wave 11 include Conexant, Daewoo, Dassault, Elsa, GAD Line, GVC, NEC, NetGear, Sharp, and ZyXEL. CableLabs re-qualified Cisco Systems Inc.'s headend cable modem termination system (CMTS) product in wave 11. CMTS equipment submitted by 3Com Corp. and Broadband Access Systems did not pass, neither did two new products from Arris Interactive. In total, 13 DOCSIS 1.0 cable modem vendors have now obtained CableLabs certification: 3Com, Arris, Askey, Best Data, Cisco, Com21, General Instrument, Philips, Samsung, Sony, Terayon, Thomson, and Toshiba. Three vendors have obtained CMTS qualification: Arris, Cisco and Motorola. The next round of CableLabs certification testing, wave 12, starts on January 24, 2000 and will conclude in March.