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3 Most widely deployed QAM platform—700,000 units shipped and counting3 Supports SDV, VOD, broadcast video, vIP PASS™ and DOCSIS®3.0/CMTS applications3 True, space-saving density: 1.5 RU chassis, directly stackable, front-to-rear cooling3 Superior RF performance, power consumption and reliability for lowest total cost of ownership3 BEQ™ family QAMS built on the same, reliable proven platform, providing ‘mix and match’ configuration flexibility

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A powerful enabler of end-to-end triple-play services

Scalable: Highly scalable to accommodate exponential growth in traffi c at the network edge

Convergence: Serves as a convergence for DOCSIS and MPEG video services

Effi ciency: Enables QAM sharing via the Cisco Universal Session and Resource Manager for dynamic QAM sharing

Economics: Reduces CapEx through converged video and data platform

Investment Protection: Provides evolutionary roadmap to protect cable operator’s investment

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Cisco RF Gateway Series Universal Edge QAM Solutions

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Shopping for Universal Edge QAMsWith cable operators hurtling toward more personalized multicast and uni-

cast services, as well as increased deployments of applications that include switched digital video (SDV), VOD and network DVRs, the demand for Universal Edge QAMs will continue to ramp up over the coming years. According to Infon-etics Research, Universal Edge QAM channels will grow from 663,000 in 2008 to 1.8 million in 2013.

The cable industry has been working diligently to dynamically share resources through Edge QAMS between different types of services, including digital video, voice, data, and eventually video over IP, in order to achieve better effi ciencies.

In order to meet the increased demand for services and applications, service providers are looking for denser, more power-effi cient Edge QAMs with smaller rack sizes than their predecessors.

Company: LiquidxStreamProduct name: LxS-3616

Density/channels: 36 QAMs per RF port

Number of coax/Ethernet connections: 16 RF outputs - 4 10 Gig inputs or 16 1 Gig inputs

Rack size: 4 RU

Power consumption/watts per channel: 2.5 watts per QAM

Differentiator: Density; carrier class internal redundancy; frequency agility – place the QAMs anywhere in the digital band with no contiguous channel constraints; connect-once operation – never disconnect the coax from the chassis.

Deployments: Deployed, but cable operators’ names not available.

Company: BigBand Networks

Product names: BigBand BEQ6000 4:1 Edge QAM, BigBand BEQ6200 8:1 Edge QAM

Density/channels: BEQ6000 4:1 Edge QAM, 48 QAM channels; BEQ6200 dense Edge QAM has 96 QAM channels and 8:1 upconversion

Number of coax/Ethernet connections: BEQ6000 has 2+2 redundant Gigabit Ethernet ports; BEQ6200 has 4+4 redundant Gigabit Ethernet ports

Rack size: Both 1.5 RU

Power consumption/watts per channel: BEQ6000 5.5 watts/QAM including chassis power; BEQ6200 operates at under 4 watts/QAM including chassis power

Differentiator: Lowest total cost of ownership and most widely deployed; directly stackable — front-to-rear cooling; BEQ family of QAMs are built on the same platform and can be mixed and matched; TL9000 certfi cation; supports SDV, VOD, broadcast, M-CMTS and vIP Pass; low-cost IP delivery to set-top boxes.

Deployments: Deployed, but cable operators’ names not available.

Company: ArrisProduct name: D5 Universal Edge QAM

Density/channels: 192 channels in 2 RU, 2.7 W per channel

Number of coax/Ethernet connections: 24 F-ports in 2 RU; 8 GigE connections for video and dataplane – 4 management ports and 2 DTI ports

Rack size: 2 RU

Power consumption/watts per channel: Overall power ~520 W and 2.7 W per channel DC powered

Differentiator: Most number of serving groups supported (24) in a 2 RU device. Dual WAN con-trol plane for supporting video and data services with different NSI and control protocol confi gura-tions. CMTS pedigree of protocol support with full CLI-, HTTP- and Java-based element management capabilities. Lowest power per channel of cur-rently shipping 2 RU Universal Edge QAM devices. Architected and engineered from inception to sup-port QAM sharing and service convergence. Full line rate support for session-based encryption.

Deployments: Deployed, but cable operators’ names not available.

Company: CiscoProduct names: RFGW-1, RFGW-10

Density/channels: RFGW-1, 96; RFGW-10, 489

Number of coax/Ethernet connections: RFGW-1, 12, 2 per QAM card, up to 6 QAM cards per chassis; RFGW-10, 120, 12 per linecard, 10 linecards

Rack size: RFGW-1, 1 RU; RFGW-10, 13 RU

Power consumption/watts per chan-nel: RFGW-1, 360 W (fully loaded – 96 QAMs), 3.8 W/QAM; RFGW-10 2250 W (fully loaded – 480 QAMs), 4.7 W/QAM

Differentiator: RFGW-1 a chassis-based, high-density, modular and scalable EQAM with support for on board scrambling; RFGW-10 a chassis-based, highly available, high-density, modular and scalable EQAM.

Deployments: Deployed, but operators’ names not available.

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Company: Ericsson Product name: EQ8096 Universal Edge QAM

Density/channels: 96 QAMs

Number of coax/Ethernet connec-tions: 4 main and 4 redundant data ports; DTI, CA and control also have main and redundant inputs

Rack size: 2 RU chassis

Power consumption/watts per chan-nel: 410 W maximum (4.3 W per channel); 350 W power consumption for a typical confi guration

Differentiator: Supports data, SDV, broad-cast and VOD simultaneously; supports all annexes and constellations (64/256) simul-taneously from the same chassis; supports open standards; integrated and modular design; low power; lightweight and compact unit; installation by single person; hot-swap dual PSU (both AC and DC versions).

Deployments: Deployed, but cable opera-tors’ names not available.

Company: GoBackTVProduct name: GigaQAM 3000

Density/channels: 24 channels per RU, 24 channels per chassis

Number of coax/Ethernet connections: Up to 12 F-connectors (frequency-agile in bonded pairs); three Ethernet (GbE/copper) connections

Rack size: 1 RU

Power consumption/watts per channel: 280 watts for chassis delivering 24 channels

Differentiator: Supports cable IPTV with DOCSIS 1.1/2.0/3.0 cable modems via CMTS bypass in combination with the GigaQAM IP DOCSIS core, as well as traditional broadcast/narrowcast/SDV QAMs. Also available with optional DVB-CSA scrambler.

Deployments: Numericable, A+, H&B Communications, Visabeira Global, Ridgeville Telephone Co., Ottoville.

Company: HarmonicProduct name: NSG 9000 Universal EdgeQAM

Density/channels: 144 QAMs in 2 RU

Number of coax/Ethernet connections:18 RF ports in 9 modular cards, 8 GbE input ports

Rack size: 2 RU

Power consumption/watts per channel: < 4 W per QAM (~530 W total for a fully loaded system)

Differentiator: Powerful embedded soft-ware, including a fl exible encryption engine; software support tools for mass confi guration and EQAM lifecycle management; superior RF performance; ease of operation and scalable.

Deployments: Announced customers include Atlantic Broadband, Bresnan Communications, Butler-Bremer, Cox Communications, Kabel BW, NCN, Qrix, SK Broadband.

Company: RGB Networks

Product name: Universal Scalable Modulator (USM)

Density/channels: 128 x 6 MHz QAM channels

Number of coax/Ethernet connections: 8 GigE and one 10 GigE, one Ethernet and 16 RF ports

Rack size: 1 RU

Power consumption/watts per channel: 675 watts for chassis delivering 128 channels with 5 watts per channel typical

Differentiator: The USM is fully program-mable so it can be easily upgraded to support new applications. The USM can also be integrated with RGB’s Dynamic Bandwidth Manager (DBM) to save additional bandwidth in VOD and SDV applications. Supports multiple applications. Offers full redundancy options.

Deployments: Hargray Communications, other unnamed deployments.

Company: Vecima Networks

Product name: HyperQAM

Density/channels: Up to 128 QAM

Number of coax/Ethernet connections: Up to 16 x coax; up to 10 x GbE

Rack size: 2 RU

Power consumption/watts per channel: 600 W max, 4.7 W per QAM

Differentiator: The HyperQAM features RF performance that exceeds DRFI speci-fi cations to 1 GHz with DRFI +4dB power per QAM.

Deployments: Expected international deployment in 2010.

Company: MotorolaProduct names: APEX1000, Motorola APEX1500

Density/channels: Either 4 or 8 QAM channels per port, upgradable via software key

Number of coax/Ethernet connections: 4 SFP slots, allowing for up to 4 optical or electrical GigE inputs

Rack size: APEX1000, 1 RU; APEX1500, 2 RU

Power consumption/watts per channel: Power draw for APEX1000 is 4.5 watts/QAM; power draw for APEX1500 is 3.6 watts/QAM

Differentiator: High-density EQAM for full-featured, cost-effective video and data services; modular chas-sis with hot swappable modules and dual redundant power supplies; locate QAM carriers across the entire RF spectrum from 54 MHz to 1 GHz; transmit power level exceeds DRFI requirements to manage combin-ing losses; support for narrowcast, including VOD, SDV, M-CMTS; support for MediaCipher encryption for broadcast (APEX1000 only) and VOD encryption; support for 1:1 device level redundancy and N:1 RF port redundancy (with REM1000 RF switch product); fl exible QAM management, 4 or 8 QAM channels per RF port with fi eld upgrade path.

Deployments: Deployed, but cable operators’ names not available.

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