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Chinese triple-play potential attracts set-top box makers

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 Massive potential in the Chinese triple-play market has attracted the attention of CAMEO Communications and set-top box manufacturer Coship Electronics, who are looking to capitalise on the emerging popularity of triple-play...

Massive potential in the Chinese triple-play market has attracted the attention of CAMEO Communications and set-top box manufacturer Coship Electronics, who are looking to capitalise on the emerging popularity of triple-play.

The two firms have adapted technology from MaxLinear, a provider of integrated radio frequency (RF) and mixed-signal integrated circuits for broadband communication applications. MaxLinear’s MxL201RF has been designed into DOCSIS-compliant tuner modules by CAMEO and Coship.

China has recently passed legislation that enables cable operators to offer Internet and telephone service to their customers, setting off a build out of DOCSIS networks that could create a $100 billion market opportunity, according to a June 2010 report from the Chinese Academy of Engineering. The report further indicated that the development of set top boxes and network upgrades will be about $36 billion of the overall total.

CAMEO is a Taiwan-based worldwide networking product supplier specializing in broadband and Ethernet products. Coship, based in Shenzhen, China, is one of the country’s largest manufacturers of STBs. Both companies have created embedded modules using the MxL201RF to enable interactive IP services for the cable operators’ customers, creating new revenue streams for these cable companies.

“Our MxL20XRF cable tuners are important for these emerging set top box designs because their small size and low power provides flexibility to manufacturers, which ends up being an important point of differentiation to consumers,” said Kishore Seendripu, MaxLinear CEO.

The MxL201RF is a family of silicon tuners developed for the global digital cable market that offers very low 400mW power consumption and small 5mm x 5mm footprint, both of which allow manufacturers to create smaller, lower cost, and more eco-friendly designs.

The devices feature integrated channel filtering and on-chip 94dB gain to deliver high-quality signal reception of weak signals even under conditions of significant channel loading, severe transmission spectrum tilt, and strong adjacent digital and analogue channel blockers.

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