Motorola and Samsung Discuss Modem Orders

Multichannel News, August, 1998 by KUHL, CRAIG

Two cable-modem vendors said last week that demand remains Strong for proprietary cable-modem technologies, while standards-based versions round the final stretch of interoperability testing. Motorola Inc. last week detailed shipment numbers for its proprietary CyberSURFR line, saying that 250,000 units are now in the hands of cable operators worldwide.

The vendor expects to ship an additional 170,000 modems by year-end and 340,000 next year, executives said, giving it what Motorola described as a 60 percent share of the cable-modem market. Meanwhile, Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. signed a contract last week with Canada's fourth-largest MSO, Burlington. Ontario-based Cogeco Cable Inc., for delivery of an undisclosed number of cable modems. The...

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