Microtune's Wideband Tuner and Upstream Amplifier Deployed in EuroDOCSIS(TM) 3.0 Certified Products
Plano, TX, July 9, 2009 - Microtune®, Inc. (NASDAQ: TUNE) today announced that its market-leading wideband tuner (MicroTuner (TM) MT2170) and its DOCSIS 3.0 upstream amplifier (MicroStreamer (TM) MT1570) have been deployed in cable modems that achieved certification status by Cable Europe Labs for the EuroDOCSIS (TM) 3.0 specification.
Both products are currently shipping in high volume, and the MT2170, the industry's first DOCSIS® 3.0 wideband tuner, has now shipped well over two million units to date. This tuner chip is currently deployed in cable equipment for high-speed DOCSIS/EuroDOCSIS 3.0 services that have launched in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
"We congratulate our customers on their EuroDOCSIS 3.0 certification, and we are proud to support their product, design and engineering efforts with our family of DOCSIS/EuroDOCSIS 3.0 products," said James A. Fontaine, CEO and President of Microtune. "Worldwide cable TV operators are relying on DOCSIS 3.0-class certified equipment to support their next generation of high-speed data and video services.
Mr. Fontaine added, "In implementing these advanced cable services, operators in Asia, Europe and North America are addressing different business models, network designs and channel allocation plans. With our tuner and amplifier portfolio, we offer market-proven and customer-hardened products that can be flexibly modularized to meet the needs of varying DOCSIS 3.0 deployment strategies, service scenarios, and products."
Microtune's DOCSIS 3.0 technology, including its wideband and narrowband tuners and MT1570 wideband upstream amplifier, has been implemented in DOCSIS 3.0 equipment ranging from ultra high-speed data modems and IPTV set-top boxes to high-end gateways.
MORE MICROTUNE PRODUCT INFORMATION
For more information about Microtune's complete suite of radio frequency (RF) solutions for the cable television market, visit Microtune's website at www.microtune.com . Microtune also offers several White Papers on its advanced tuners for digital and bandwidth-expansive cable TV applications, including:
o Flexible, Scalable and Future-Ready DOCSIS®/EuroDOCSIS (TM) 3.0 Gateways;
o See the Picture - How the Set-top Box Tuner Impacts Cable Video Quality;
o Enabling Tuner Technology for All-Digital Cable Networks;
o Bandwidth: Key Weapon in Cable-Telco Battle for Subscribers; and
o Quickly Enable DOCSIS 3.0 Functionality and Counter Telco Market Incursion.
Mr. Fontaine also shares his view of DOCSIS 3.0 market trends and opportunities in an interview available online.
ABOUT CABLE EUROPE LABS AND CABLE EUROPE
Cable Europe Labs, part of the Cable Europe association of cable operators, certifies that vendor equipment meets industry-specified requirements, ensuring high interoperability of the equipment with cable networks offering TV, broadband Internet and telephony services. The first certification last week (in Certification Wave 34) of EuroDOCSIS 3.0 cable modems continues to drive the rollout of cable's ultra high-speed telecommunications services into the European marketplace.
Cable Europe joined forces with CableLabs® in the United States to develop the new DOCSIS 3.0/EuroDOCSIS 3.0 specifications.
Supporting legacy cable networks and services, certified DOCSIS/EuroDOCSIS cable equipment increases performance, data rate and reliability for bandwidth-intensive data and Internet Protocol (IP) voice and video services, including very fast high-definition video-on-demand downloads/uploads for consumers and new commercial services for businesses.
ABOUT MICROTUNE
Microtune, Inc. is a silicon and subsystems company that designs and markets radio frequency (RF) solutions for the worldwide broadband communications and transportation electronics markets. Inventor of the MicroTuner (TM)single-chip broadband tuner, Microtune offers a portfolio of advanced tuner, amplifier, and upconverter products that enable the delivery of information and entertainment across new classes of consumer electronics devices. The Company currently holds 83 U.S. patents for its technology. Founded in 1996, Microtune is headquartered in Plano, Texas, with key design and sales centers located around the world. The website is www.microtune.com.
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