Motorola Announces the Shipment of 100,000 Cable Telephony Lines Worldwide

Business Wire, Oct 21, 1998

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 1998--Motorola's Multimedia Group today announced that more than 100,000 lines of its CableComm cable telephony products have been shipped worldwide. Sufficient CableComm headend equipment has been installed to provide capacity for more than 400,000 cable telephony subscribers. Motorola's cable telephony systems are key components for local loop access via hybrid/fibre coax (HFC) cable networks. Using Motorola's CableComm System, network operators are able to provide services that allow subscribers to use their conventional telephone instruments, fax machines, answering machines, and other telecommunication devices.

"Our attainment of the 100,000 shipment mark is a strong indication of the confidence that cable operators and consumers have in this technology," says Dick Day, corporate vice president and general manager, Motorola Multimedia Group. "As the cable telephony industry continues to evolve, Motorola remains committed to provide its customers with high quality, reliable telephone services that capitalise on immediate revenue opportunities and offer their subscribers additional and cost effective services."

"The cable telephony system that Telenet deployed in Belgium is the only working alternative for the residential telephone market, based on the new technology through the existing cable distribution network," says Paul Van der Spiegel, CEO, Telenet. "The new telephone company in Flanders offers the customers freedom of choice. This choice offers the customer a better service or better value for money."

Telenet of Belgium, Optus of Australia, TeleCommunications (TCI) of the US and BinaSat of Malaysia have all deployed Motorola cable telephony systems and are currently offering telephone services in select areas.

Company information

Motorola's CableComm cable telephony system supports POTS and other multimedia services over HFC networks. The Cable Access Unit (CAU) connects subscriber premises equipment including phones, fax machines and analog modems to an HFC network. The cable telephony system utilizes the HFC network as a pipeline to deliver Digital Switch functionality such as CLASS features, dial-tone and ring cadence to the subscriber premises equipment. Motorola's Cable Control Frame (CCF) serves as the interface between the cable operators headend and the HFC network. The entire CableComm cable telephony system is designed to provide lifeline telephony services.

Motorola's Multimedia Group, a unit of the Internet Networking Group, develops, manufacturers and markets systems for the convergence of voice, data and video communications services over advanced broadband multimedia platforms.

Motorola is a global leader in advanced electronic systems and services. It creates software-driven products that provide integrated customer solutions and Internet access via wireless and satellite communications, as well as computing, networking, and automotive electronics. Motorola also liberates the power of technology by providing essential digital building blocks in the form of embedded semiconductors, controls and systems. Sales in 1997 were $29.8 billion.

For further information about the Motorola Multimedia Group and Motorola Inc., please visit the company's Web site at http://www.mot.com/multimedia

100,000 cable telephony lines worldwide