Modem/Routers stage home-net land rush. (Spotlight: OSS Provisioning).(Brief Article)
Multichannel News, May, 2002 by Brown, Karen
NEW ORLEANS -- These days, a combination cable-modem/router is the new ante for suppliers who want to play in the cable access-device game. As the buzz for home networking grows louder among operators eager to add services to their data networks, several major suppliers bowed combined modem/router units at last week's National Show in New Orleans.
Though each vendor was seeking to stake a claim to the networked broadband home, one would suspect the manufacturers had drawn from the same basic blueprint in crafting their devices. With few variations, all marry a Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification 1.1-compliant modem to a four-port Ethernet switch, a Universal Serial Bus port, a wireless 802.llb Ethernet antenna and a Home Phoneline...
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