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To: John Rieman who wrote (27115)	12/27/1997 12:43:00 PM
From: CPAMarty	Respond to of 50808

MCNS Cable Modem Specs Carry The Day North American MSOs Succeed in Setting De Facto Standard, Lay Groundwork for Retail Sale of Low-Cost Consumer Modems cabledatacomnews.com At the 1996 Western Cable Show, Multimedia Cable Network System (MCNS) Partners L.P., a coalition of leading North American MSOs, announced plans to drive the development of low-cost, standardized cable modems that could be sold at retail by the end of 1998. One year later, MCNS is on track to meet its aggressive goal. Prototype cable modems based on MCNS Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) protocols will be on display at the 1997 Western Cable Show this month in Anaheim, Calif. and many vendors expect to begin field trials by April 1998. Commercial availability of two-way MCNS DOCSIS cable modems is expected by June 1998, enabling MSOs to begin limited retail distribution of the products in select markets by year end. Vendors say external two-way MCNS cable modem units will initially be priced between $300 and $350, as much as 25-percent less than existing products. As production volume grows in 1999, vendors expect the price to fall below $250. At least 20 vendors are now working to build DOCSIS cable modem equipment, including 3Com Corp., Bay Networks Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Harmonic Lightwaves Inc., Hayes Microcomputer Products Inc., Motorola Inc., NextLevel Systems Inc., Phasecom Inc., Samsung Electronics Corp. Ltd., Scientific-Atlanta Inc., Sony Corp., Thomson Consumer Electronics, and Toshiba America Inc. Additionally, four silicon suppliers are now selling chipsets for MCNS DOCIS cable modems: Broadcom Corp., Libit Signal Processing Ltd., Rockwell Semiconductor Systems Inc., and Stanford Telecommunications Inc. Notably, two strong cable modem start-ups that had been advocating proprietary solutions in the market -- Com21 Inc. and Terayon Communication Systems Inc. -- announced in November that they would also build products supporting the emerging MCNS standard. "It has become very clear to us that MCNS DOCSIS will become the common denominator across the cable modem space," said Gary Law, Terayon's vice president of marketing. "The MCNS group has done an excellent job of getting the industry rallied around a spec, getting the vendors lined up and pushing this forward."