Set to ship in the fourth quarter of this year, Motorola’s DCX3600M is intended to be a video gateway that enables service providers to shift to IP in the home and thus easily deliver new services to consumers. This first of a new generation of converged set-tops promises a wealth of ground-breaking features, indicated one judge.The gateway includes built-in transcoding capabilities, allowing it to take QAM MPEG-2 services and transcode to MPEG-4 for delivery to mobile devices, including tablets and smartphones, over the home network, according to Motorola. It also will provide operators with the flexibility to deliver a mixture of QAM and IP services, tuning up to six QAM services simultaneously or accessing IP services delivered directly over DOCSIS.The Diamonds judges also were wowed that the product:
- Uses the full simultaneous six-stream capability of the M-card CableCARD standard
- Can stream content with its voluminous 1 TB HDD through the home via MoCA 2.0
- Implements the latest wideband tuner technology, allowing the simultaneous tuning and demodulation of up to eight downstream QAM channels from anywhere in the forward (54-1,002 MHz) passband
- Includes channel bonding support for eight downstream and four upstream DOCSIS 3.0 channels
