2008 exhibitor list

• Amdocs JacobsRimell (JR), now part of Amdocs OSS Division, develops packaged OSS fulfillment solutions for MSO's to enable them to rapidly deploy and manage their products and services. JR delivers the flexibility, reliability and scalability that operators must have, proven with 24 million subscribers deployed across 15 countries.
• Aurora Networks Inc. will demonstrate a standard optical node that enables up to 100 times more capacity than conventional data delivery methods. With the Node PON™ module cable operators can market and cost-effectively deliver up to 1000 Mbps symmetric service anywhere within their cable networks.
• BusinessEdge Solutions BusinessEdge Solutions will demonstrate proof of concept of a content monetization strategy centered on targeting content, media and advertising to subscribers within and across delivery channels. Single cross-channel views of subscriber data enhanced with behavioral and contextual data that yields superior market segmentation intelligence is made possible by Master Data Management (MDM). Also demonstrated, enhanced subscriber intelligence leveraged to target content, media and advertising within and across channels via single or federated Ad Campaign Management (ACM) platform.
• Commscope BrightPath™ is an innovative fiber-deep distribution system designed to work seamlessly with existing Hybrid-Fiber-Coax (HFC) networks, and is fully compatible with existing headend and subscriber equipment, allowing operators to cost-effectively deliver their current suite of analog, digital and interactive services over fiber to the home. This system can be deployed selectively as required to provide a competitive advantage, with lower upfront cost and maintenance relative to traditional passive optical networks (PON). The BrightPath architecture is a unique, all optical distributed tap design that mirrors HFC in performance, design and cost. It allows an operator to deploy FTTH yet maintain the same back office support, CMTS, subscriber equipment and services. Once installed, if business cases for advanced services are identified, the fiber infrastructure of BrightPath can be easily adopted to support wavelength services using known WDM technologies.
• Digeo will showcase its latest DVR for cable, the Moxi HD DVR 3012. Digeo will be showing the Emmy Award-winning user interface, dual digital tuning capability, and integrated CableCARD. This new DVR includes a streamlined processor and increased hard drive.
• Digital Fountain DF Splash is an end-to-end solution that streamlines the most complex elements of delivering and measuring a high-quality video experience, enabling a more compelling, more entertaining online experience. DF Splash provides viewers with an instant-on, full-screen, TV-quality experience, significantly improving the way we watch streaming video over the Internet.
• EchoStar will demonstrate SlingModem™, the first DOCSIS® cable modem that fully integrates the place-shifting capabilities pioneered in the original Slingbox™. With the SlingModem, customers can easily watch and control their TV programming on any Internet-connected computing device just as they would in front of the living room television. The SlingModem provides the cable customer with both a broadband connection as well as the placeshifting functionality made famous by the Slingbox.
• F-Secure, Inc. Data security is no longer merely a question of technology. Supporting the corporate end user while ensuring powerful protection calls for a service-centric approach. F-Secure offers a perfect solution for all partners in the IT security segment offering various levels of IT services to its customer base. We provide the backbone of technology, research, support and business models designed and tailored for service partners of all kinds.
• GE Security & iControl will demonstrate next generation technology - Home Security 2.0 which adds broadband and mobile access to security systems, cameras and home devices, delivering remote home monitoring and control functionality. The demonstration will also show a unique touch screen user interface that provides the homeowner access to information and control of their home at their fingertips.
• High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance (HANA) The High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance (HANA) will demonstrate the advantages of sharing cable content throughout the home over a 400 Mbps network using 1394 over coaxial.
• inGrid Home Securitywill have a system and laptop will be on display, comprising handset, console, base, grid extender, and camera. The system will connect through broadband to InGrid servers and sensors will be registered, named, and configured within 60 seconds. The system will be armed and disarmed remotely.
• Infinera will exhibit its DTN digital ROADM (reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer) built with photonic integrated circuits delivering 100 Gb/s of optical transport on a pair of chips less than 5 mm square. The demo will highlight the digital ROADM architecture and the benefits bandwidth virtualization brings to cable operators from an engineering, operations, and service perspective.
• Intranext Systems will showcase an integration of a call center and billing system for computer telephony using screen pops, intelligent call routing and custom workflow tools.
• Irdeto will be demonstrating its most recent conditional access system developments.
• MetaSwitch will demonstrate its MetaSphere Application Suite which provides new revenue generating voice services. The applications which MetaSwitch will demonstrate include the following: CommPortal user interface; CommAssistant desktop toolbar; Live Message Screening; and SIP Phone Provisioning Server, which enables a no-touch provisioning model for deploying endpoints and allows operators to manage configuration and firmware versions
• Motorola will demonstrate it's MTR700 Tuning Resolver which connects unidirectional UDCPs (TiVo device, in specific) to a cable network, accessing multimedia content in the cable network's switched digital video (SDV) tier. Seamless tuning of the TiVo device across both broadcast and SDV tiers will be shown. Motorola will also demonstrate its Integrated CMTS (I-CMTS) and SURFboard® cable modems, in a DOCSIS 3.0 setting using the traditional Motorola 2:8 DS/US Module and new TX32 high-density Decoupled Downstream Module..
• NextAlarm.com / LaserShield Systems LaserShield Burglar Alarm ... Over Broadband NextAlarm.com, the Broadband Alarm Company, teamed with LaserShield Systems will demonstrate an easy to setup burglar alarm. With this system and the Sparrow broadband adapter, a cable installer or end user can unpack and setup a professional grade home security system in less than 5 minutes that is monitored over Broadband. The demonstration will also include instant video surveillance of the home, accessible over a web portal or over mobile phone; e-mail, SMS, and even automated voice alert alerts.
• Oversi will be presenting its comprehensive, multi-service caching and content delivery platform for Internet video and P2P traffic. The OverCache™ platform enables cable operators to relieve heavy network congestion, while improving customers' quality of experience (QoE), and monetizing over-thetop (OTT) video traffic.
• PerfTech, Inc. will show its Bulletin System which gives Internet providers a powerful vehicle to communicate directly with their subscribers whenever they are online. It allows providers to insert a message with text or rich-media content into the browser screens of one, a group, or all subscribers for whom the message is relevant.
• Pixel3 is exhibiting ImageIQ, a breakthrough application that takes standard definition video and upgrades it to HD quality. The resulting video is not just a scaled up version of low-definition content, but an actual, full-bandwidth 1080p image with the high-frequency detail.
• Pure Networks will feature a gateway-router setup called Network Magic.
• Ruckus Wireless will highlight its whole home multimedia distribution of content with 802.11n and Wi- Fi meshing. This demo highlights technical advances made in the distribution of IP-based services over the next generation of Wi-Fi technology, 802.11n. The demonstrations shows how Wi-Fi can be used to concurrently distribute three high definition IPTV streams, music, voice and Internet access over a single wireless network in the home.
• Samsung Electronics
  1. SMT-3090 Dual Tuner tru2way™ HD DVR SMT-3090 tru2way™ DVR will use a Mulitistream CableCARD to simultaneously decrypt and record two streams of digital cable to a 160 GB HDD. Also includes a DOCSIS 2.0 Modem for interactive communication to the headend.
  2. Samsung tru2way™ STB with DCAS Functionality Samsung tru2way™ Set Top box has the capability to download secure client software from a DCAS cable H/E and store it to the secure microchip embedded in the STB. The STB can decrypt an encrypted Video Stream with a matched CAS key.
  3. Samsung tru2way™ STB with DPI Functionality In communication with the H/E the Decision Engine and Switch Engine direct targeted ads based on viewing patterns.
  4. Samsung tru2way™ client with web extension Samsung tru2way™ Set Top box has the capability to support blended services including broadcast and web content.
  5. Samsung tru2way™ LCD TV Samsung tru2way LCD TV with Multistream CableCard support.
• Sandvine will demonstrate how its carrier-grade solution can enable a variety of subscriber services. By using subscriber application identification, awareness of dynamic network capacity, per-subscriber policies, and other appropriate conditions, service providers can introduce a range of solutions such as quota management, quality of service guarantees, and policy enforcement.
• Sigma Designs will display an integrated tru2way-based set top box that features four narrow band tuners which can display three video channels - high definition as well as standards definition. The tuners can be linked to enable channel bonding based on DOCSIS 3.0, enabling high speed throughput.
• Softel USA will show the powerful MediaSphere TX carousel playing both tru2way ™ & ETV interactive applications. Softel-USA will also demonstrate the flexibility and ease-of-use of the system's webbased configuration tools. The MediaSphere TX has been integrated with Motorola and SA head ends, plus with set-top boxes, automation, scheduling and billing systems. In addition, the MediaSphere line fully supports DOCSIS® Set-top Gateway (DSG) delivery via GigE and the ETV IO4 updates. The powerful MediaSphere Lab supports integrated prototyping and testing of tru2way™ & ETV applications, set-top boxes, and head end systems.
• Symmetricom will demonstrate the importance of video QoE from a viewer's perspective. Video mean opinion scores (MOS) from a streamed video signal, along with video quality results, will be displayed to indicate perceptual video quality—and validate video quality as perceived by end users.
• Synacor will demonstrate various new features of its consumer portal such as web DVR scheduling; bundled business portal services like vanity email and template-driven web sites; and value-added services like downloadable games and music.
• Teradata will demonstrate how an active data warehouse can leverage subscriber data, purchase history and recent event data to identify relevant offers. Building on solutions designed for online advertising, this demonstration shows a straightforward approach to interactive advertising challenges.
• thePlatform a subsidiary of Comcast and a leading broadband video management and publishing company, will demonstrate a jointly integrated delivery framework with Cisco Systems that gives service providers a mechanism for seamless delivery of broadband video to multiple screens. Additionally, thePlatform will exhibit technology that enables cable operators and programmers to create a branded, customized broadband video channel in minutes that can also manage the entire logistics process and enhance the overall online video experience.
• Unisoft Corporation/Strategy & Technology Ltd. will show a number of aspects of OCAP (tru2way) and ETV application creation, testing and delivery: S&T's TSBroadcaster 2.0 for OCAP, to create and broadcast a multi-service transport streams containing a number of OCAP and ETV applications. ETV demonstrations will include ad insertion and splicing; ETV and OCAP applications validation using XFSI's XAV; OCAP benchmark testing using Sofia's OCAP Benchmark System; and Generation of authenticated OCAP applications using UniSoft's OCAP Security File Generator (OCAP SFG).
• UpdateLogic, Inc. will demonstrate its ability to coordinate and deliver comprehensive software updates to today's digital television (DTV) sets. The UpdateTV Datacasting Network maintained by ULI consists of data insertion servers installed in public broadcast stations in North America. This data can be carried forward on the cable networks with no additional infrastructure - by simply "cherry-picking" the data broadcast. Once enabled with the specification-compliant UpdateTV Agent software, DTV devices can receive and install the appropriate software update - via either cable or terrestrial broadcast.
• Westell, Inc. will coordinate the digital home with its UltraLine Series 3 residential gateway that unifies triple play services with emerging home networking applications-media sharing, home control and home monitoring-and integrates them into a single, intuitive user experience. The gateway also features WireSpeed™ routing technology with a dual-core network processor to simultaneously support multiple bandwidth-intensive applications.
• Zodiac Interactive will display its tru2way Zidget framework, which utilizes its plug-in architecture to support applications such as local search, weather, traffic, sports scores, and local news without disrupting the TV viewing experience.
• Z-Wave will demonstrate home security, monitoring and automation solutions using a mobile phone, TV, computer, remote controller and a touch-panel interfaces controlling door locks, lighting, thermostats, video cameras and appliances both in home and remotely, anytime/anywhere.