Comments on: Broadlogic, Cable’s Secret Weapon

By: Brian H Fitzsimons

Brian H Fitzsimons — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:35:00 +0000

Great post Om. This almost sounds like Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing but for Cable? I would be very interested in seeing Broadlogic’s initial pricing around this. As is mentioned above the solution is both costly for operators and subsequently it may undesirable to many subscribers given high subs and expensive DTB’s they may need to purchase but its definitely one to keep a eye on.

By: Southpaw

Southpaw — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 03:21:03 +0000

If a company created cheap a Digital legacy to analog legacy multiplexer. Cable companies could deploy TeraPix without disrupting the analog base customers.

By: Tech Gadgets

Tech Gadgets — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 01:42:26 +0000

Broadlogic unveils TeraPIX, cable's "secret weapon"…

Filed under: Networking While we all wait for fiber optics to start pouring gigabytes of data out of…

By: Andrew Schmitt

Andrew Schmitt — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:14:00 +0000

Pingbacks don’t seem to be working, so I’ll post this as a comment.

My thoughts on TeraPix can be found here.

http://www.nyquistcapital.com/2006/11/06/broadlogic-and-cables-analog-ghetto/

By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:40:29 +0000

Wes, the issue here are the many customers that have multiple TVs but don’t want any STBs. These customers make the least amount of money for the cable company (don’t buy the digital tier or DVR) but are also the largest drain on capacity (need all those analog channels). Puting one box based on this TeraPIX per house allows the network to be all digital and still support multiple TVs/house with no STB. So, the TeraPIX makes sense even if it costs as much as 3 or 4 cheap STB. Also, since you need fewer TerPIX than you would STB, you need less warehouse space and have fewer devices to maintain.

By: Wes Felter

Wes Felter — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 19:46:03 +0000

Sorry, it’s hard to imagine that this wonder-chip is cheaper than a few $50 single-chip digital STBs.

By: PanMan

PanMan — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:22:35 +0000

Sounds really impressive! So this one chip does the work of 80(!!) Mpeg (2? 4?) decompressors? This could be a great step, for the transition to more bandwidth on cable networks. By the way: Do you, in the US, get 80 analogue channels? Here, in the Netherlands, we have around 30, and I tought that was around the technical limit? I guess the big question will be if this chip is cheap enough: If it’ll cost $400, it will probably be cheaper to just bring a settop box to every TV, instead of this decoding beast in a gateway

By: broadstuff

broadstuff — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:56:53 +0000

Cable takes a swing at IPTV…

Broadlogic announced the awaited TeraPIX video processor today, which (theoretically) enables cable operators to "triple their digital spectrum available." In theory, this device reclaims about 450 MHz of a 750 MHz spectrum by converting analoue cabl…