Toshiba uses TI's silicon and software

By SUSAN RUSH
From CED Broadband Direct, August 13, 2002

Toshiba Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. are continuing to work together in the cable modem technology sector. The latest: TI has supplied the silicon and software for Toshiba's PCX2500 cable modem, the companies announced today.

The PCX2500 became the first cable modem to receive Euro-DOCSIS 1.1 certification from the Euro-DOCSIS Certification Board last month.

In the United States, several vendors have received DOCSIS 1.1 certification and are selling DOCSIS 1.1-certified modems or reference designs, including 3Com, Aastra, Accton, Ambit, Arris, Askey, Com21, Conexant, Correlant, Joohong, Motorola Broadband (three models), Quanta Network Systems, Samsung, Scientific-Atlanta, Tellabs, Terayon, Texas Instruments, Thomson, Toshiba, and Xrosstech.

The DOCSIS 2.0 specification was finalized in January and is now in the interoperability phase. DOCSIS 2.0 is an advanced physical layer addition to modem functions. The spec can increase upstream bandwidth for cable modems to 30 megabits per second — three times that of DOCSIS 1.1 units.