Cisco serves up wireless boxes to AT&T

Cisco is laying claim to an industry first with its new wireless IPTV receiver, which AT&T will offer across its entire footprint on Monday.

Cisco’s ISB7005 wireless receiver allows U-verse subscribers to send standard-definition and high-definition programming around a home via 802.11n Wi-Fi. The system also features Cisco’s VEN401 Wireless Access Point, which, along with the wireless receiver, is now part of the company’s Videoscape product stable.

“Never before has it been so easy to move your TV around the home to wherever it suits you,” said Joe Chow, vice president and general manager of connected home solutions for the Service Provider Video Technology Group at Cisco. “We are excited to reach this industry milestone, becoming the first to bring wireless TV to market with AT&T. Cisco is pleased to achieve new heights as AT&T’s wireless TV technology provider.”

The wireless platform delivers live TV channels and interactive services and also functions as a whole-home HD DVR, allowing consumers to view and manage DVR recordings wirelessly from a wired DVR in the home.

While AT&T customers will benefit from sending video content to areas that were previously not served through wires, AT&T saves on the time and money needed to wire a home.



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Pioneer picks Amino’s DVR boxes for IPTV service

Pioneer Telephone Cooperative has selected a DVR set-top box from Amino for its IPTV service.

Headquartered in Kingfisher, Okla., Pioneer serves more than 40,000 customers across more than 74 communities in western Oklahoma. The co-op was at the forefront of IPTV deployments in North America.

Pioneer is using Amino’s Aminet A540 DVR IPTV/OTT set-top boxes that include new system-on-a-chip (SoC) processors and improved over-the-top features. The new OTT features include HTML5 audio and video tags to support the new generation of televisual websites, plus HTTP live streaming (HLS) adaptive streaming technology. HTTP upgrade and recovery is also included, enabling remote firmware updating.

“We have a great reputation for quality of service and innovation, and we look for partners that share this ethos and commitment,” said Pioneer manager of broadband services Donnie Miller. “Amino products have proved to be very reliable in our testing and trials and popular with our customers. Additionally, Amino has a strong working relationship with our middleware partner, and they have a shared goal in ensuring we maintain our competitive edge in delivering the best and latest entertainment experiences to our customers.”

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Ikanos chips presage IPTV-optimized VDSL2

Ikanos Communications has introduced a family of multimode VDSL2 chipsets with integrated packet classification and noise protection circuitry, critical capabilities for IPTV. The chipsets are designed to provide the highest throughput and density, with the lowest power consumption per port.

VDSL2 provides the bandwidth DSL service providers need to offer the triple play, but only on subscriber loops much shorter than most U.S. telcos have installed. VDSL2 has been deployed more extensively in Europe and elsewhere.

Ikanos introduced two chipsets that support all VDSL2 profiles - 8a, 8b, 8c, 8d, 12a, 12b, 17a and 30a - and are optimized for 30 MHz spectrum operation to offer 100/100 Mbps performance. Two other chipsets support all VDSL2 profiles except 30a, and are optimized for 17.6 MHz spectrum utilization and 100/50 Mbps performance.

All chipsets are available in sample quantities now. Production quantities will be available late in the third quarter.


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