This year CableNET® ’99 will go "Outside the Box" to showcase the growing number of communications products and services that cable systems soon will make available to consumers.
As a part of the Western Show convention, CableNET ’99 will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center from December 15 –17, 1999, where more than 60 companies will demonstrate high-speed cable modems, digital set-top boxes and IP telephony services that will meet consumers’ information and entertainment needs.
Co-sponsored by the California Cable Television Association (CCTA) and CableLabs®, CableNET is an educational forum demonstrating the potential of the cable industry’s hybrid fiber/coaxial systems — and the expanding number of video, telecommunications and entertainment applications it will deliver to cable customers.
"This year’s exhibit theme, Outside the Box, really hits the mark," said CableLabs president and CEO, Dr. Richard R. Green, "because it exemplifies the innovative thinking that has lead to a host of advanced services that will change consumers’ lives. And CableNET once again contains a wide array of products and services that are available already, or are soon to be deployed on cable systems."
The CableNET® ’99 exhibit will cover about 10,000 square feet, where approximately 110 pedestals will be showcasing and demonstrating the service delivery options of the companies participating in this year’s event. Information on the exhibit can be found at www.cablenet.org.
Following is a brief description of what each company will be exhibiting.
3Com
will demonstrate a number of applications that show the advancement of connected cable applications and services and their integration into everyday life.ADC Telecommunications
will display primary line telephone services using Internet protocol and a broadband in-home networking system that uses telephone wiring already in the home via an environmentally hardened outside mounted subscriber unit.ATI Technologies
will demonstrate a multimedia set-top box that will show high-definition television (HDTV), advanced 3D gaming, and electronic mail/web browsing.Broadband Access Systems, Inc.
will demonstrate Cuda™ , a 12000 IP Access Switch that is carrier class for cable access and that includes a DOCSIS cable modem termination system (CMTS), routing, service provisioning, and network management system.Broadcom Corp.
plans a number of demonstrations showing cable modems with Quality of Service, a set-top box with a built-in CableLabs® Certified™ cable modem, in-home networking using cable devices and telephone lines, and multi-channel toll quality voice-over-cable using Internet protocol.Cabletron
will be displaying the SSR 8000 with a DOCSIS CMTS module, combining routing and control of application flows. It also will show a cable network management system supporting devices from multiple vendors, CableLabs® Certified™ cable modems, and CMTSs.CANAL+ U.S. TECHNOLOGIES
will present its interoperable, open-architecture, interactive television middleware MEDIAHIGHWAY, and MEDIAGUARD, a conditional access system.Canon Information Systems, Inc.
will demonstrate direct printing of Internet content from a cable headend to a digital set-top box printer using a newly developed cable network software infrastructure.Cisco Systems
will demonstrate digital video, voice, and data using a digital set-top box that contains a CableLabs® Certified™ cable modem.Clarent Corporation
will exhibit is voice-over-IP solution, including its MGCP call agent, which enables IP phone-to-phone calls over cable networks.Com21, Inc.
will show broadband telecommuting using a cable modem with firewall appliance and four-port Ethernet hub.Conexant Systems Inc.
will demonstrate a DOCSIS cable modem based on its integrated and programmable CN9414 single-chip platform.Criterion Software Ltd.
plans to demonstrate its Renderware toolkit for producing advanced interactive content incorporating integrated video and 3-D graphics on advanced digital cable set-top boxes.Daewoo
is set to exhibit high-speed Internet access via a cable modem.DiviCom Inc.
will exhibit a digital video headend interacting with different conditional access systems as an OpenCable interoperability demonstration. It also will show high-definition encoding, then HDTV content running through a cable set-top box.Elmsdale Media Ltd.
will demonstrate video-on-demand.Equator Technologies, Inc.
plans to display streaming video, dual MPEG-decoded programs for digital picture-in-picture, video conferencing, analog time-shifting and digital post-filtering, all enabled by its low-cost media processor.Ericsson, Inc.
will be demonstrating a cable modem with embedded telephony technologies that allow PacketCable communications. An additional demonstration will include a USB DOCSIS 1.0 cable modem.Fore Systems
will exhibit network management and multiple services running over an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network.GAD Line Ltd.
plans to demonstrate voice-over-IP.General Instrument
is planning to show services enabled by its CableLabs® Certified™ cable modem.IBM
will display electronic commerce and transactional demonstrations that enable Intranet shopping through a Scientific-Atlanta set-top box.ICTV Inc.
will show its open platform that delivers interactive broadband content and high-speed Internet access through a set-top box to a television.Intelogis, Inc.
will demonstrate a power line home network distributing high-speed cable modem content to multiple PCs over standard electrical wiring.Interactive Channel
will exhibit an electronic program guide, Internet content and e-mail on a television set.IPCell Technologies, Inc.
will demonstrate its call agent, which enables residential tele-phony over a cable network using IP technology.Lucent Technologies
will demonstrate carrier-class packet telephony over cable with real-time billing, an IP-based distributed PBX with a built-in cable modem interface, and the capability to provide seamless delivery of data and voice services between corporate and home offices.Media Station, Inc.
will exhibit CD-based content-on-demand over cable modem networks.Microtune
will demonstrate how its solid-state dual conversion broadband tuner may handle analog and digital modes in a multimedia setting enabled by a cable modem.Mindport, Inc.
will showcase its conditional access on a point-of-deployment (POD) module as part of an OpenCable interoperability demonstra-tion, as well as a billing system.Motorola Multimedia Networks
Division will use its universal serial bus cable modem for streaming video and high-speed Internet access. It also will show a wireless in-home networking system, IP-based interactive and multimedia services, and voice-over-IP applications.MuNet.com
plans to display its WebGate™ Internet residential and commercial information systems, which enable utilities and other service businesses to acquire, control, and manage data collected remotely, and then to publish this information to authorized users via the Internet.NagraVision
will demonstrate conditional access interoperability using an OpenCable-based POD module across multiple digital set-top boxes.nCUBE
will demonstrate in excess of 1,000 three-megabit-per-second simultaneous video streams in one 19-inch headend rack.NDS
will demonstrate its OpenVideo Guard OpenCable conditional access system integrated in a POD module, highlighting NDS interoperability at the headend and the set-top box.Netcom Systems
plans to exhibit a network test and management system for high-speed cable modems.NetSpeak
will demonstrate it’s call agent, CLASS and custom calling features, announcement server, routing, and record keeping servers for delivering IP telephony service over DOCSIS cable networks.Nortel Networks
will offer a number of demonstrations using its CableLabs® Certified™ cable modems and qualified headend equipment: e-commerce and cable commuting; voice-over-IP; media streaming; network management services; in-home networking of appliances and devices; and Quality-of-Service capabilities.Oren Semiconductor
will show single-chip demodulation of both OpenCable and off-air HDTV signals for cable-ready digital television applications.Pace Micro Technology Plc.
plans to demonstrate a digital cable set-top box with an internal DOCSIS cable modem and display high-speed data content as well as video.Panasonic AVC American Laboratories
will show an integrated digital cable television prototype with an active POD module slot. The exhibit will utilize video content that consists of clear and scrambled (utilizing keys) digital streams to demonstrate conditional access operation with multiple POD module suppliers.Philips
will demonstrate an OpenCable set-top box with POD module in the OpenCable interoperability area.Pioneer New Media Technologies, Inc.
plans to show two set-top approaches to pass high-definition video to a plasma display: one set top has a built-in HD decoder, while the other passes compressed video over an IEEE 1394 interface.Portal Software, Inc.
intends to exhibit an integrated subscriber management and real-time billing system to support a new generation of cable services including DOCSIS cable modems.Probita Inc.
will demonstrate its network resource manager, which allows cable operators to deploy services across a wide variety of plant designs and consumer premise devices, which supports dynamic session resource management functions.RealNetworks
will present its latest technologies for delivering live and on-demand broadband streaming media.Redback Networks
will demonstrate automated provisioning of IP services such as basic Internet access, video and audio. Another demonstration will show how a telecommuter virtual private network (VPN) service may be implemented.Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
plans to show high-speed data, voice, and video convergence using its DOCSIS-based integrated telephony cable modem (ITCM) over a cable data system. Samsung also will demonstrate a set-top box with POD as part of an OpenCable interoperability section.Scientific-Atlanta
will exhibit an OpenCable set-top box with POD module and multiple applications that are enabled by a set-top box and that appear on a television set. It also plans to provide baseband digital-reverse technology.SCM Microsystems
is part of a group that will demonstrate a new POD module platform that provides secure access to digital cable services running over an OpenCable system.SeaChange International
will demonstrate interactive advertising, video-on-demand and on-demand education.ShareWave, Inc.
will show high-speed wireless networking inside a home, delivering data and multimedia with throughput of 11 Mbps. Applications include broadband modem extensions, residential gateways, and network interface cards (NICs).Telcordia Technologies
plans to demonstrate voice-over-IP calls placed using their TelCordia Call Agent within a cable network.TeraLogic, Inc.
will present its development platform for cable-ready TV and set-top box with a POD module, which includes the capability to deliver all-format digital television.Terayon Communication Sytems
plans to demonstrate high-speed residential Internet access using a current generation DOCSIS cable modem.Texas Instrument’s Cable Broadband Communications
(formerly Libit Signal Processing) will showcase a DOCSIS cable modem reference design with quality-of-service, voice-over-IP, and CMTS burst receiver with INCA technology for improved robustness and increased capacity on cable upstream channels.Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc.
will exhibit multimedia services, including voice-over-IP, running over a cable system.V-Bits, Inc.
will be demonstrating digital ad insertion into a progressive refresh MPEG transport stream, showing comparisons of digital program insertion with and without V-Bits I-Frame inserter.Visionetics
will demonstrate an advanced integrated digital set-top-box and multimedia gateway with a built-in DOCSIS cable modem and Web browser.WorldGate Communications Inc.
will demonstrate high-speed Internet access through a digital set-top box, and channel hyper-linking SM ability from TV programming to related Web content with the press of a button on a remote control.Zenith Electronics Corp.
will exhibit its ability as an interim solution to allow cable operators to deliver off-air transmissions of digital television.Zoom Telephonics, Inc.
will show a home gateway DOCSIS cable modem with universal serial bus, Ethernet, home phone line, and wireless networking interfaces to demonstrate streaming video and high-speed Internet access.Among the companies supporting CableNET’ 99 with services and in-kind assistance are Cisco Systems, CommScope, Gilbert Engineering, MediaOne Group, Mountain Cable Industries, PPC, RoadRunner, TeleCrafter, and Thomson Consumer Electronics.
