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COMPANY CONTRIBUTION
Casa’s C100G next generation, 13 RU, highly available, fully redundant, I-CCAP platform enables MSOs to deploy MPEG video, IPTV, and DOCSIS over a single port. The C100G delivers the industry’s highest CCAP density while consuming the lowest average power per channel, minimizing both expenses and space requirements in the cable head end. CMTS vendors, Motorola (18.3%) and Casa Systems (14.7%) were able to grow their shares. Much of the growth comes at the expense of Cisco and Arris, the market leaders in Q3 2012.... Cisco and Arris have established themselves as the frontof business with one of the largest Tier 2s runners in the CMTS market, with Motorola and is in lab trials with a Tier 1. “We are now running a distant third and Casa Systems the little engine that did,” declares Sumner. continuing to grow and nearly match “Our customers tell us our products are well Motorola. With Casa’s growing list of cusahead of anything our tomers worldwide the CMTS market is getting more competitive, especially as vendors vie for share ahead of potential CCAP developments.” The market performance is reflected in the company’s expansion. Sumner says the headcount has doubled in the last 18 months, “and at least The C3200 Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) is a DOCSIS 3.0 qualified half of our 240 staff are devoted to R&D.” cable edge device in a high density, 3RU And while Casa Systems now has a global platform. footprint of customers, for maximum quality control, manufacturing competitors can offer is kept close to home at and, obviously, we really the HQ in Andover, Casa Systems will be on stand want exploit that. We Massachusetts, USA. N10 at ANGA.com. Please are a mature mid-stage “The larger boards are contact James Gayton for details. company supplying over assembled in Hudson, [email protected] 250 cable operators New Hampshire and around the world.” the smaller ones in The stats bear that out. In its Q4 2012 Boston, Massachusetts, with final assembly, market survey, Infonetics said: “In Central testing and shipping handled from our corpoand Latin America, which has become the rate office here.” The flexibility of this kind of most competitive and dynamic market for close control of production also means Casa can supply within two weeks. “It means we have to carry a lot of inventory but that’s OK, because our customers are ordering so they can develop their offerings. We are shipping product that encourages them to grow, and once they have the equipment The CC1G Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) is a new class of cable edge device that implements all of the deployed they can simply DOCSIS 3.0 features enabling service providers to cost order more channels as effectively offer highly scalable broadband services such as they expand,” explains IPTV, video-over-IP, interactive gaming, as well as tradiSumner. tional broadband access and VoIP services.
Bringing it all together
Casa Systems technology unifies the functionalities for video-over-MPEG and video-over-IP into a single platform at a cost level unimaginable with previous technologies. This unification provides a single management point for HFC spectrum resources for all digital services and a seamless migration path from one architecture to another without costly fork-lift upgrades. Casa Systems’ products provide all the functional components needed in deploying digital broadcast, digital simulcast, switched digital video, and unicast services. Casa Systems changes the economics of provisioning new services over HFC networks. By reducing initial capital expenditures and generating savings on ongoing operational expenditures, its products create the best path for cable operators to roll out new digital services. Casa products utilize advanced technologies to achieve dramatically increased flexibility and density, thereby reducing the cost of large-scale deployment of: l VoD l Interactive TV l Network-based DVR l Switched digital video l Video-over-IP l Other broadband IP services Casa products can be deployed in different scenarios to provide different types of services and migration paths: l As MPEG Edge-QAM and videoover-DOCSIS edge device: The CMTS can also be deployed as a unified platform to provide simultaneous video-over-MPEG and videoover-IP services. The RF spectrum resources are shared among MPEG and IP traffic. The ratio of MPEG traffic and IP traffic can be adjusted in real-time. l As video-over-IP edge only: The CMTS can be deployed from day one as a downstream DOCSIS edge device to provide video-over-IP services at a cost very competitive relative to video-over-MPEG services. Casa Systems manufactures the industry’s only DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem Termination Systems that have earned full gold-level DOCSIS 3.0 specification from CableLabs and comply with the full DOCSIS 3.0 feature set.
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