From CCBN: Set-Top Box Tech Tailored For China’s Growing Cable Market

By: Sarah Murry Posted: Mar. 21, 2013

BEIJING — From the floor of the China Content Broadcasting Network show this week, one trend is clear: Growth is on the horizon for the cable television landscape in China.

Today’s cable industry in China is expanding at full tilt for a number of reasons. First, a change in administration is expected to bring a boost to the economy and increase capital spending on infrastructure. Second, a sweeping Next-Generation Broadband initiative and a nationwide transition from analog to digital broadcast …

Broadcom at CCBN: Beijing Brings Cable to the Forefront

By: Aaron Schmidt Posted: Mar. 20, 2013

The growth of China’s middle class — which has already surpassed 300 million people — is being met with initiatives to update the country’s cable TV infrastructure. The most up-to-the-minute technologies will give consumers the opportunity to experience new digital features and services that come with stronger broadband connections.

This week, Broadcom will be showcasing its innovative technologies for the cable industry at the China Content Broadcasting Network Exhibition (CCBN) in Beijing, where companies ranging from service providers to embedded …

Report: China, India Big Drivers for Smartphone Growth

By: Sarah Murry Posted: Mar. 06, 2013

Earlier this week, market researcher IDC came out with a headline-grabbing statistic: Mobile phone sales scales will tip in favor of smartphones, which are expected to out-ship feature phones for the first time ever later this year.

At Broadcom, this moment is something we’ve predicted — and anticipated — for nearly a decade.

IDC forecasts vendors shipping some 919 million smartphones in 2013, just over the halfway mark of the global total mobile phone shipments for the year.

Perhaps …

Broadband Around the Globe: Highlights from Broadcom’s International Press Event

By: Rachel Rosmarin Posted: Jan. 11, 2013

Along the halls of the Consumer Electronics Show, its impossible to ignore the international feel of the show. Attendees flock to Las Vegas from around the world and converge on the show floor speaking dozens of languages.

As a global company, Broadcom certainly launches products that drive innovation in different international markets and has an interest in demonstrating the technology trends from across the globe.

At the show this week, Broadcom hosted a press conference for the journalists who …

Global Connectivity Converges at CES 2013

By: Sam Diaz Posted: Jan. 03, 2013

It’s a big world out there. Broadcom recognizes that the love of — and the demand for — the latest and greatest consumer electronics technologies knows no geographic bounds.

As Broadcom heads to Las Vegas for the International Consumer Electronics show this week — where the gadget pageantry is set to dominate the tech media in the U.S. — we’re looking beyond Western borders.

Broadcom’s products are found everywhere on the planet, from urban corporate data centers and the cloud, …

3G Mobile Portfolio Nabs Awards in China

By: Susan Vander May Posted: Jan. 02, 2013

As more users shift from 2G feature phones to sophisticated 3G smartphones — and marching onward to 4G devices, 2013 may herald the first year that smartphones make up more than half of all cellphones shipped globally. By the end of this year, smartphone shipments are expected to grow 45 percent to more than 717 million units, according to research firm IDC, while sales of feature phones decline.

Part of this growth can be attributed to the immense popularity …

C-DOCSIS Greenlighted, Ushers Next-Gen Broadband to China

By: Dana Brzozkiewicz Posted: Nov. 01, 2012

As the cable TV and broadband experience in China goes through an upgrade, government officials are looking to standardize the underlying architecture so that operators not only can offer a reliable, high quality TV and Internet experience but also accelerate deployment of services for cable devices.

This initiative, known as Next Generation Broadband, or NGB, is driving the convergence of networks in China to accelerate so-called “triple play” services of voice, video and data that are bundled for consumers.

Broadcom …

Pay TV Goes Global: China on the Verge

By: Sarah Murry Posted: Oct. 31, 2012

Chinese consumers are poised for a major change in the way they watch TV.

As it stands, dozens of operators duke it out by region with a patchwork of competing services—cable, Internet Protocol TV (IPTV), satellite and passive optical networking (PON), to name a few. A fragmented market is the norm in the country of more than a billion people, bit that’s changing as TV offerings are set to converge around broadband technologies.

As the world’s most-populous nation with a …

Broadcom Powers Huawei’s Small Cell Rollout

By: Dana Brzozkiewicz Posted: Oct. 30, 2012

Small cells are big business for telecom service providers looking to better serve their data-hungry customers.

Yet as data use skyrockets, so does demand on the networks. Information and communication technology companies are challenged to find ways to deliver faster and more efficient cellular connectivity with their existing 3G networks.

The answer may lie in small cells, a relatively new market for Broadcom that helps operators get the most out of their networks and delivers seamless connectivity to heavy data …

Broadcom Fuels the Affordable Smartphone Revolution

By: Emily Weisburg Posted: Jun. 28, 2012

Today’s smartphones are more like handheld computers with elegant touch screens: Internet-connected devices that allow consumers to do things like share photos and stream videos, get directions and play games.

But under the hood, complex pieces of hardware power a robust software system to make such a seamless experience possible. This hardware-software combination is the result of years of research, development, design and assembly work – and a lot of money, making the devices cost a small fortune when they …

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