Intel Gets Back Into Cable.(Intel and Comcast will collaborate on a home-networking)(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, June, 2001 by BAUMGARTNER, JEFF

Following a history of up-and-down cable-industry involvement, Intel Corp. apparently is on the upswing again, via a home-networking trial agreement with Comcast Corp's cable unit. This time around, Intel and Comcast will collaborate on a home-networking trial that will harness Intel residential broadband gateways, wireless-network adapters and host-based cable-modems, also known as computer-controlled-cable modems (CCCMs).

Cable Television Laboratories Inc. is currently exploring CCCM specs. The device itself is expected to run about $50 per unit, down from the typical $99 price tag on most of today's external cable modems. Comcast and Intel also agreed to co-promote the MSO's high-speed service and Intel's home-networking products. In...

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