RDK Advances, Works Toward Broadband

RDK Management says that since last year's Cable Show, the number of RDK licensees has grown more than 63% and now stands at more than 220 total licensees across CE manufacturers, SoC vendors, software developers, system integrators, and pay TV service providers. During the same period, the number of pay TV operators that have directly licensed the RDK has grown by 60% and now stands 25 total cable, satellite and telco providers worldwide. Pay TV service providers also have the option to receive the software through a third party, such as an RDK-licensed systems integrator, set-top box supplier or software vendor.

The RDK is now deployed in more than 5 million devices around the world. The RDK provides the technical foundation for a wide range of STBs. Companies including ARRIS, Cisco, Humax, Pace, Samsung, and others have developed RDK-based STBs that are in various stages of testing, trials, or deployment with operators globally.

Beyond the existing video-centric set-top box solution (RDK-V), members of the RDK community are working on a RDK solution for broadband devices (RDK-B). The community feels that broadband devices, similar to STBs, can benefit from a software baseline of commonality and standardization that could be enhanced by an RDK-like structure. RDK-B is currently being developed by operators, SoC companies and OEM companies. RDK Management plans to make the solution available as soon as the software and minimal support aspects are ready and is targeting the second half of 2015. RDK Management is also working on a longer term plan to provide a support program including additional training, an emulator, a TDK, development tools and test suites in a similar manner as is provided for the existing RDK-V solution today.