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To: pat mudge who wrote (106)	12/19/1998 4:32:00 PM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 2347

DOCSIS Certification Set for March Louisville, Colo. -- Despite word from Cable Television Laboratories Inc. that cable-modem certification won't be completed until early March, MSOs are preparing to deploy standardized modems on a fairly large scale after the first of the year. Until now, MSOs and vendors had held off from going to commercial deployments because there were too many uncertainties surrounding the arcane technical details that determine whether a modem is compliant with the standard. Those issues are now resolved, said Rouzbeh Yassini, executive consultant to CableLabs. Certification that a modem is compliant with version 1.0 of the standard -- and, therefore, interoperable with all other compliant modems and headend systems -- is vital to winning retailers' support for off-the-shelf distribution. Now, vendors said, they know enough about the details to move forward with large-scale production, confident that any tweaks needed to bring deployed modems into compliance once they are certified can be accomplished with software upgrades in the field. Yassini -- who, earlier this fall, had cautioned that the "product has to do the talking" in demonstrating DOCSIS compliance at CableLabs -- offered assurances that it was safe to move forward with deployments now, despite the longer-than-anticipated timetable for certification. He added that he was confident that certification of many vendors' products would be completed by the end of the next testing cycle, which runs from Jan. 18 to March 2. - 12/18/98