TI, Motorola team for cable modems
By Susan Rush
from BroadbandWeek Direct, May 7, 2002
Texas Instruments Inc. and Motorola Broadband Communications
Sector are joining forces to speed the delivery of DOCSIS 1.0,
1.1 and 2.0 certified cable modems to the broadband cable market.
The deal calls for Motorola to incorporate TI's complete DOCSIS
system into its SURFboard SB4220 cable modem. TI's complete DOCSIS
system integrates DOCSIS physical (PHY) and media access control
(MAC) layers of the open system interconnect (OSI) reference model,
with a high performance communications processor and peripherals
for networking and communication applications.
The SURFboard SB4220 also will incorporate TI's A-TDMA advanced
physical layer capability specified in the CableLabs DOCSIS 2.0
standard.
Motorola has been in the cable modem business for eight years,
and has shipped roughly 8 million cable modems into the market.
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