2008
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Brian Roberts, Chairman & CEO, Comcast Corporation presents Richard Leghorn, Founder and Board Member Emeritus CableLabs®, with a special Vanguard Award for Outstanding Contribution. -
Honorable Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Carlos Gutierrez and Will Jennings, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Motorola, listen to Dick Green, CEO of CableLabs. -
Developers working at the Hands-On tru2way Developers' Lab. -
Marc Summers, Dick Green, and Larry Satkowiak at the 2008 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.
Voice
June 2008: Arris and Motorola receive PacketCable certification - the industry-first certification for devices that integrate DOCSIS 3.0 with the ability to deliver cable digital voice.
Video
January 2008: tru2way brand succeeds OCAP for consumer and retail settings. The announcement is made by CableLabs Chairman Brian L. Roberts during a Comcast-sponsored keynote at the CES.
January 2008: CableLabs issues public interface specifications enabling support by UDCPs that use CableCARDs™ to access switched digital services previously unavailable to such devices.
February 2008: Java.net opens OpenCable area, triggering the start of third-party applications development for OCAP and tru2way.
May 2008: In a signing ceremony with Brian Roberts, president and CEO of Comcast Communications, Samsung Electronics becomes the first consumer electronics manufacturer to sign tru2way license agreement.
May 2008: Sony Electronics and the six largest cable companies negotiate and sign a national plug-and-play agreement establishing a platform for retail devices to receive interactive cable services.
June 2008: Cable tru2way platform gains endorsements with MOU signatures from Panasonic, Samsung, ADB, Digeo and Intel Corporation.
July 2008: Funai Electric signs the multi-industry tru2way MOU.
Data
May 2008: CableLabs® awarded certification status for Data over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS®) 3.0 cable modems to Ambit, Arris, Cisco, Motorola for two modems; and SMC. This represents the first certification of DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems. CableLabs also awarded "full" qualification status for Cable Modem Termination Systems (CMTS) to Casa Systems for two devices. This is the first qualification of a DOCSIS 3.0 CMTS representing "full" or complete compliance with all requirements of the DOCSIS 3.0 specification for headends. Motorola received bronze qualification for its CMTS. The DOCSIS 3.0 specifications enable downstream data rates of 160 Mbps or higher and upstream data rates of 120 Mbps or higher.
June 2008: Arris and Motorola receive PacketCable certification - the industry-first certification for devices that integrate DOCSIS 3.0 with the ability to deliver cable digital voice.
Video
January 2008: tru2way brand succeeds OCAP for consumer and retail settings. The announcement is made by CableLabs Chairman Brian L. Roberts during a Comcast-sponsored keynote at the CES.
January 2008: CableLabs issues public interface specifications enabling support by UDCPs that use CableCARDs™ to access switched digital services previously unavailable to such devices.
February 2008: Java.net opens OpenCable area, triggering the start of third-party applications development for OCAP and tru2way.
May 2008: In a signing ceremony with Brian Roberts, president and CEO of Comcast Communications, Samsung Electronics becomes the first consumer electronics manufacturer to sign tru2way license agreement.
May 2008: Sony Electronics and the six largest cable companies negotiate and sign a national plug-and-play agreement establishing a platform for retail devices to receive interactive cable services.
June 2008: Cable tru2way platform gains endorsements with MOU signatures from Panasonic, Samsung, ADB, Digeo and Intel Corporation.
July 2008: Funai Electric signs the multi-industry tru2way MOU.
Data
May 2008: CableLabs® awarded certification status for Data over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS®) 3.0 cable modems to Ambit, Arris, Cisco, Motorola for two modems; and SMC. This represents the first certification of DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems. CableLabs also awarded "full" qualification status for Cable Modem Termination Systems (CMTS) to Casa Systems for two devices. This is the first qualification of a DOCSIS 3.0 CMTS representing "full" or complete compliance with all requirements of the DOCSIS 3.0 specification for headends. Motorola received bronze qualification for its CMTS. The DOCSIS 3.0 specifications enable downstream data rates of 160 Mbps or higher and upstream data rates of 120 Mbps or higher.