10-21-96
C-Cor Announces Integration Services and Deal with Bay Networks
Nynex CableComm in UK chooses Motorola’s CyberSURFR modem
3Com Aims to Acquire OnStream
Jupiter Plans Cable Telephony Service in Japan
West End Systems Announces Taiwanese Distributors
Jupiter Study Predicts Slow Growth of Cable Modem Market
Nynex Chooses GI for Upgrading Network Equipment
TCI HITS Launched
@Home Ahead of Schedule
C-Cor Announces Integration Services and Deal with Bay Networks
Roll out the carpet....again, here comes another player in this industry.
C-Cor announced during the Atlantic Cable Show in Baltimore that the 40-year old company was hungry for a piece of the data communications over cable pie. C-Cor plans to offer the industry integration services and products including market assessment/trunk-node prioritization, network design, training, fiber optic transmitters, AM fiber nodes, RF amps, activation of the return path including balancing and sweeping, and network management. C-Cor will distribute Bay Networks ’s cable modem and other networking equipment as part of their integration package. C-Cor’s data communications ala carte solution will be known as DataSelect.
Bay Networks will be working side by side with C-Cor, marketing the products and services, testing the products, and writing white papers together.
The partnership is just another step towards Bay Networks ’s concrete prescence in the cable modem industry. It wasn’t long ago that Bay Networks was a tiny Massachusetts start up in the shadow of the big corps such as HP, IBM, and Motorola. They had no purchasing commitments and their outlook was questionable. However, now, their future is looking as bright as it possibly could, with successful deployments of thousands of modems worldwide (over 40,000 shipped), purchasing commitments from major MSO’s (TCI, Continental Cablevision, and Adelphia), selection by @Home for their initial deployment in Silicon Valley, the acquisition by Bay Networks and the soon to be announced next generation product line. C-Cor’s promotional efforts and integration package will provide Bay Networks with the much needed end to end solution offerings and the promotional boost to keep the momentum alive.
NYNEX CABLECOMM IN UK CHOOSES MOTOROLA’S CABLE MODEM
Nynex Cablecomm, England’s second largest cable operator will use Motorola’s CyberSURFR modem and related networking products for a cable modem trial to be conducted in the operator’s northwest regions and in Manchester. Nynex hopes to upgrade the trial to a commercial service in the first quarter of next year.
With the introduction of 200 cable modems initially, Nynex plans to offer residential, institutional and business services including:
local interactive multimedia content
remote LAN access
small business data
3D image viewing capabilities
CD ROM access - Nynex will develop a central library providing information and interactive games
Local services will be offered before Nynex offers internet access.
Motorola
http://www.mot.com/Multimedia
Nynex
http://www.worldserver.pipex.com/nynex/
JUPITER PLANS CABLE TELEPHONY SERVICES IN JAPAN
Jupiter Telecom, a Japanese MSO managing 17 cable tv stations and aspiring to take over the Japanese cable market has announced that they will offer telephony services beginning in July of next year. The joint venture will launch domestic telephone service in Suginami, offering rates 15% lower than NTT fees. Jupiter plans to expand the service to cover 3 million Japanese households costing the company over 3.7 billion in yen in capital over the next six years. To date, only Jupiter and Titus (another super company joint venture) have applied for CATV telephone service licenses in the country.
3COM AIMS TO ACQUIRE ONSTREAM
3Com Corp announced that it has plans to acquire OnStream (formerly T3plus Networks) through a $245 million deal that has 3Com exchanging 3.8 million shares of its common stock for all the outstanding shares of OnsStream. If the deal goes through as planned on November 30th of this year, 3Com will begin immediately selling OnStream products. OnStream’s market includes broadband multiplexer and ATM access concentrator fields.
3Com
http://www.3com.com
WEST END SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES TAIWANESE DISTRIBUTORS
Sun Moon Star Co, Ltd. and Toyon Technology Corp of Taiwan will
distribute West End System’s Westbound 9600 products in that area of the world. The deal includes marketing, distribution and support.
West End Systems
http://www.westendsys.com
JUPITER STUDY PREDICTS SLOW GROWTH OF CABLE MODEM MARKET
Jupiter, a research and consulting firm estimates that in 1998, 50% of PC modems in use will be 56Kbps dial-up modems. The study indicates that the US cable modem market share will be:
1997 - 2.2%
1998 - 2.4%
1999 - 4.1%
2000 - 7.5%
ADSL modems are projected to claim market shares half of that of the cable modem market.
The 160-page report is available for purchase by calling 1-800-488-4345 or by visiting Jupiter’s web site at http://www.jup.com - The report goes for $1295.00. As always, the CATV CyberLab discourages the purchase of reports that attempt to predict the future of a technology based industry.
NYNEX CHOOSES GI FOR UPGRADING NETWORK EQUIPMENT
Nynex has chosen Next Level Communications (a subsidiary of GI) to provide them with FTTC technology. The technology which will replace copper lines includes approximately one million transport lines that will be deployed in the Boston and NYC markets. The contract includes the option to extend the purchase to five million lines.
GI will supply Nynex with the NL3 Switched Digital Services system which provides a high speed digital broadband support architecture that will support voice, video and data over an ATM based network.
Nynex
http://www.nynex.com
GI
http://www.gi.com
TCI HITS LAUNCHED
This month TCI launched its heavily publicized Headend In The Sky service to cable operators. Around 100 small cable systems have signed up for the service.
TCI
http://www.tcinc.com
@HOME AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
Believe it or not, @Home is claiming that they’re ahead of schedule with deployments and that expansion of the service in the Silicon Valley area will come earlier than expected.
@Home
http://www.home.net
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