According to a press release, Motorola demonstrated products that highlight the company’s unique leadership in designing and deploying end-to-end cable systems – from infrastructure to consumer premise equipment. These devices are designed to further leverage an operator’s existing network while providing consumers with video entertainment options and new ways to extend their high-speed connections.

A release says that the recently launched (in North America) Motorola DCT6000 family of set-tops are examples of devices that enable operators to deliver compelling, high-interest services such as PVR, high-definition television (HDTV), and other processing-intensive applications, to their cable customers.

“Motorola IP networking solutions and digital set-tops are designed to facilitate the delivery of, and increase the demand for, new broadband services and applications,” Motorola Broadband – Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) corporate VP and GM Paul King was quoted as saying. “The Motorola products being demonstrated at Mediacast are designed to enable operators across Europe to establish new revenue streams, and deliver those value-added services that allow them to not only retain subscribers, but increase their customer base.”

The release added that the digital set-tops, cable modems, wireless networking, and infrastructure products extend Motorola’s robust offerings of broadband solutions for European network operators. These products, along with presentations highlighting Motorola’s network infrastructure solutions business and the company’s 75-year heritage of innovation, will be displayed at Motorola Broadband’s stand (G30) at Mediacast 2003.

The following products and solutions were showcased by the company:

Digital Set-Top Solutions
Motorola DCT6000 Platform. Recently announced in North America, the platform offers operators a single solution for PVR, HD, and advanced interactive applications. The Motorola DCT6000 family increases processing power, while adding digital interfaces to digital television (DTV) and related consumer electronics, an integrated DOCSIS™-compatible cable modem, and features such as pausing live TV and recording programs via the electronic program guide (EPG) interface. Motorola introduced the DCT6000 platform in North America in response to consumer demand. There is growing interest in Europe for the PVR capabilities provided in the DCT6000 platform, and it’s being featured to demonstrate Motorola’s PVR technology to European operators.

Motorola DVi1000:
This DVB-compliant set-top is an enhanced-broadcast digital cable platform that can be deployed at a similar price point as basic analog cable set-tops while delivering more programming channels and the subscriber benefits that come with digital cable. Subscribers with a DVi1000 set-top benefit from an expanded channel line-up, a superior user interface, and telco-return for impulse pay-per-view (PPV).

Motorola DVi3000:
This DVB-compliant core digital-interactive cable platform provides expanded channel capacity, virtual channels, and hyperlinking capabilities. In addition, the interactive DVi3000 set-top supports real-time reverse-path communications, providing a gateway to interactive services such as video-on-demand (VOD), thin-client TV-based Internet, and electronic program guides. Other features include a 54-860 MHz tuner and DVB-compliant conditional access, including MediaCipher® conditional access and an optional Smart Card interface for third-party conditional access.

Motorola DVi3500:
This advanced-interactive DVB-compliant digital cable set-top includes an integrated Euro-DOCSIS modem. The DVi3500 digital set-top can be deployed at a similar price point as typical advanced analog cable set-tops – while delivering more programming channels and subscriber benefits. Operators who deploy the DVi3500 can leverage their existing data network infrastructure to offer their subscribers Web-enhanced interactive digital services such as Internet access, session-oriented games, PC routing and IP telephony.

Motorola DTH330 and DTH335:
These digital video receivers are designed for systems that deliver secure video and interactive broadcast services over advanced satellite networks. Both set-top receivers include integrated application support for digital TV, interactive programming, information channels, IPPV/PPV and e-commerce. Additionally, the receivers support software in-band downloads and service upgrades.

IP Networking
Motorola SBG1000:
The first wireless cable modem gateway combines two of Motorola’s inherent strengths – its worldwide leadership in wireless communications and its technology expertise in the broadband business. The Motorola SBG1000 replaces the need for an individual cable modem, router and wireless access point by combining all this functionality in a single product – saving consumers the cost of purchasing these multiple devices and the headache of integrating them. Unlike other broadband gateways, the SBG1000 offers added benefits such as a dedicated print server, content filtering, advanced firewall protection, virtual private networking (VPN) pass-through, and parental controls.

Motorola will also demonstrate the SBG900, based upon the SBG1000, which provides a simplified feature set designed to meet a variety of consumers’ home networking needs.

Cable Modems
Motorola SB5100E:
Motorola will be showcasing its SURFboard® SB5100E, which is 25 percent more compact than its predecessors, compatible with the developing Euro-DOCSIS 2.0 standard, and provides a tripled upstream capacity of 30Mbps on supported cable systems. Motorola will also demonstrate the SB5100, which recently received DOCSIS 2.0 certification.

Voice and Telephony
Motorola SBV4200E:
This (VoIP) telephony cable modem is Motorola’s fifth-generation product designed for data and voice services over a broadband network. This device – an embedded multimedia terminal adapter (eMTA) – delivers high-speed data connectivity through a Euro-DOCSIS 1.1-compliant cable modem, and toll-quality voice services, supporting standard voice service features such as caller-ID, call-waiting, and call-forwarding.

Network Infrastructure Solutions
Motorola BSR 64000:
The carrier-class BSR 64000 CMTS/edge router enables broadband providers to rapidly introduce differentiated data, voice and multimedia services for both corporate and residential subscribers, as well as deliver QoS levels end-to-end from the network edge to the network core. The Motorola BSR 64000 can support up to 96 upstream receivers in a single space-saving chassis. The BSR 64000 is DOCSIS 1.1, PacketCable™ 1.0 and EuroDOCSIS 1.0-qualified, and is compatible with EuroDOCSIS 1.1 specifications.

Motorola BSR 1000:
The Motorola BSR 1000 CMTS/router provides a solution for small- or medium-sized distribution hubs, or for larger sites in the earlier stages of broadband service market penetration. The product can be deployed as a stand-alone unit or in small clusters to cost-effectively extend broadband access infrastructure to additional subscribers. Based on open systems standards, the BSR 1000 is DOCSIS 1.0 and 1.1-qualified, EuroDOCSIS 1.1-qualified and is compatible with PacketCable 1.0 specifications.

Motorola MBT 5000:
This data-optimized, multi-service optical transport solution offers service flexibility and high port density, as well as carrier-class reliability and quality of service (QoS). The platform leverages a standards-based, unified architecture that integrates next-generation SDH/SONET technology with powerful Ethernet switching and DWDM capabilities. With the MBT 5000 platform, broadband operators can deliver flexible Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet services – as well as traditional voice and private line services – efficiently over the same metro area network infrastructure.

Digital Media Systems
Motorola SmartStream Encryptor/Modulator (SEM) Technology:
The Motorola SEM packs the capability to encrypt a large number of services across 8 separate 64 or 256 QAM cable channels into a single rack unit of space. With support for both GigE and ASI transport technology, the densely designed Motorola SEM efficiently delivers hundreds of individual streams directly to subscribers. SEM encryption is part of Motorola’s award-winning MediaCipher conditional access system, which currently secures content delivered to more than 20 million subscribers.

Motorola Digital Video Encoder, Model SE-1000:
The SE-1000 provides Motorola's fifth-generation video compression technology in a compact chassis that is ideally suited for the cable headend and small broadcast applications. Model SE-1000 accepts either analog composite or digital CCIR-601 video and performs MPEG-2 compression using highly refined Motorola compression techniques that provide high video quality at low bit rates. The Motorola SE-1000 is ATSC and DVB compliant, and offers three types of outputs, DVB-ASI, digital headend expansion interface (DHEI), and DS-3, for easy interoperability with cable headends and broadcast equipment.

Motorola SmartStream Transcoder Multiplexer (TMX) Technology:
The Motorola TMX enables operators to customize digital multiplexes at each cable system interconnect point for increased service and network flexibility. In addition, the Motorola TMX is the processing point for digital ad insertion, interfacing with digital ad servers to cleanly splice ads into digital bitstreams.

Motorola MediaCipher Conditional Access Solutions
Motorola MediaCipher Licensing Programme:
This programme enables qualified set-top manufacturers to integrate Motorola’s MediaCipher conditional access technology with a standard DVB/MPEG-2 set-top hardware platform. With Motorola MediaCipher conditional access technology available from a range of set-top manufacturers, broadband network operators are able to economically and confidently take advantage of one of the industry’s most widely used and secure access control systems.

The Motorola MediaCipher Conditional Access Licensing Programme:
is comprised of several components to assist both broadband network operators and set-top suppliers:

MediaCipher Conditional Access Smart Card:
This ISO7816-interface compliant module contains the advanced security elements that enable the MediaCipher conditional access technology in a highly secure, economical package.

MediaCipher Conditional Access Software Integration:
This comprehensive software package and support program includes the software port to the host set-top CPU, training to use the supplied conditional access application programming interface (API), testing services to quickly verify successful set-top operation, and integration support.

MediaCipher Conditional Access Validation Laboratory:
The validation laboratory provides final testing to ensure that the set-top is compatible with MediaCipher conditional access-based networks.