Telecom Lead Asia: Buckeye CableSystem has selected Motorola Mobility’s APEX3000.
The largest cable firm operating in the Toledo area in the U.S. will be deploying APEX3000 in Q2 2013 as a fully redundant edge Quadrature Amplitude Modulator (EQAM) solution for Switch Digital Video (SDV) and Video On Demand (VOD) services.
Motorola Mobility — in a statement on Wednesday — said the platform provides a better migration path to achieve a Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP) architecture in the future, which will streamline the process of delivering better IP video.
Jim Brown, VP of Engineering for Buckeye CableSystem, said: “We are committed to providing our users with a wide range of content – from on demand to broadcast. Motorola’s APEX3000 allows us to do so reliably, quickly and cost-effectively.”
The Motorola APEX3000 supports 384 QAM channels per RU or a total of 1536 QAM channels per 4 RU chassis.
With up to 48 QAM channels per RF port, the APEX3000 provides plenty of future growth capacity. Service providers are able to choose the number of channels and ports that fit their needs, which translates to lower costs and increased energy savings for them, and more programming options (VOD, SDV, nDVR, etc) for their customers.
Moreover, the APEX3000 also reduces power per QAM by 72 percent (<1W per QAM at maximum density) and features 12 10GigE ports – eight primary ports and four back-up – empowering cable operators to ingest enough content to fill every QAM channel with narrowcast content if needed.
Joe Cozzolino, senior vice president and general manager, Network Infrastructure Solutions, Motorola Mobility, said: “With the APEX3000, we are bringing our customers one step closer to achieving a future-proof and robust CCAP architecture, while providing cost savings and ease of mind in the present.”
