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To: John Rieman who wrote (37451)	11/26/1998 9:24:00 PM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

Motorola cable modem for data and voice......... techweb.com Motorola Powers Up New Cable Services (11/25/98, 2:14 p.m. ET) By Chuck Moozakis, InternetWeek Cable-television operators are about to take some big steps forward in their pursuit of the corporate high-speed access market. Motorola's cable-products division will take the wraps off its Multimedia Terminal Adapter during next week's Western Cable Television Show in Anaheim, Calif. The MTA, scheduled to be released in mid-1999, will let cable-TV service providers offer data and IP telephony through a single modem, according to Andy Audet, general manager of the Motorola unit. The adapter will blend the functionalities of Motorola's Vanguard frame relay access device with IP telephony software from NetSpeak, Motorola said. Calls and data flow will be managed across a hybrid fiber/coaxial cable network that uses the forthcoming Multimedia Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP), a specification supported by Cable Television Laboratories and other industry groups. MGCP is a combination of two other standards -- the Simple Gateway Control Protocol (SGCP) and Internet Device Control Protocol (IDCP)-- and is an alternative to the H.323 specification used in many available data/IP telephony gateways. Motorola's MTA will be able to support either specification, Audet said, once the standards are solidified. "MTA is geared to help cable operators expand their market space," Audet said. "Certainly, cable's infrastructure is robust enough to offer a variety of services. Data is one, but voice is a large market opportunity. The question is how we take voice applications and make them first-line capable," he said. Cable service providers probably will initially aim their data and voice services toward the SOHO market, Audet said. IT managers who must support telecommuters may be attracted by the services' ability to provide both voice and data access to remote locations through an inexpensive, high-speed pipe, he said. Tom Eagan, who follows the cable industry for PaineWebber, agreed. "Cable operators have the marketing ability," he said. "The question is whether they have the capacity to roll out these services. Cable operators don't want to do anything that outstrips their ability to provide these services, but they've done well so far." Motorola won't be the only vendor demonstrating IP voice and data modems at the cable convention. San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco also is expected to join the fray, unveiling a device that offers similar capabilities.