Charter taps Terayon for HD stream system. (Spotlight: Broadband Networking).(Charter Communications Inc. is deploying Terayon Communication Systems Inc.'s CherryPicker DM 6400 multiplexers for high definition)
Multichannel News, January, 2003 by Brown, Karen
Facing a wave of high-definition programming in coming years, Charter Communications Inc. is deploying a new Terayon Communication Systems Inc. device that can get more HD bang for the bandwidth. The St. Louis-based MSO said it would deploy 32 of Terayon's new CherryPicker DM 6400 statistical multiplexers to power its HDTV rollout, which now reaches 18 markets.
The new CherryPicker has the capability to funnel to four HD streams on a single 256 quadrature-amplitude modulation channel, thus freeing up bandwidth to expand HD offerings or beef up other services, including video-on-demand. HDTV signals consume up to five times as much bandwidth as standard-definition video channels. Charter will be using the DM 6400 units to mix three RD...
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