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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 …

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, …

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’s Community Wi-Fi Named Finalist for Best New Cable Service

 By: Dana Brzozkiewicz Posted: Oct. 08, 2012

The spotlight is on Broadcom’s Community Wi-Fi software service as the newest go-to technology for cable subscribers, according to Light Reading, a top source for news for the communications industry.

Community Wi-Fi was recently named as a finalist in the“Best New Cable Service or Application” category by for Light Reading’s Leading Lights awards. A run down on the technology: Broadcom’s software, coupled with a DOCSIS 3.0-enabled cable set-top box or media gateway allows cable operators to offer on …

Cable Connections Power Community Wi-Fi at IBC

 By: Sarah Murry Posted: Sep. 07, 2012

Everybody loves a Wi-Fi hot spot – that instant wireless signal that connects most mobile devices to the vast world of online content. But the reality is that connecting to a hot spot is sometimes more trouble than it’s worth.

Sometimes hot spots are crowded with other users, bogging down connection speeds. Other times, logging in can be a drawn-out, intrusive registration process that compromises your privacy and time. Even worse, if a Wi-Fi hot spot connection is less-than-secure, checking …

IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine: Broadcom’s Stephen Palm on the future of the connected home

 By: Dana Brzozkiewicz Posted: Jul. 05, 2012

Connectivity starts at home.

From the first TV set-top box chips to the creation of the DOCSIS cable architecture standard,  Broadcom has shaped the connected home over its 21-year history.

But what will the future of home connectivity look like?

Stephen Palm, Broadcom Senior Technical Director, Broadband Communications Group, looks back at more than two decades of home networking and considers how the next generation of technologies need to evolve in this article featured in the June issue of IEEE …

Broadcom Enhances Standard Technology to Boost China’s Cable Overhaul

 By: Dana Brzozkiewicz Posted: Apr. 02, 2012

When the Chinese government began its Next Generation Broadcast (NGB) initiative to create state-of-the-art networks that converge telecommunication, Internet and television, China’s cable operators were faced with major overhauls to existing systems. To take advantage of this new opportunity, cable operators looked to Broadcom for help.

By extending proven DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Systems Interface Standard) technology with Ethernet over Coax (EoC), Broadcom has created DOCSIS-based EoC as the ideal platform to address China’s unique challenges in launching converged communications.…

Pay-TV in China Reaches New Heights with Broadcom Technology

 By: Dana Brzozkiewicz Posted: Mar. 20, 2012

BEIJING – Today, Broadcom announced several key wins and higher speed technology that is changing the pay-TV landscape in China. Cable operators there are in the midst of converging their networks to offer telecom, Internet and TV services together to their subscribers.  They are putting the plumbing in – so to speak – so that Chinese consumers can watch high-quality HDTV, enjoy high-speed Internet and even new services like video chat through a TV.

Broadcom engineers put their heads together …

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