ADC's Compact Cable Modem Termination System

ADC is now showing off its new Cuda 1000 Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) series. The company says that the Cuda 1000 is designed to help deliver broadband services to subscribers living in smaller population centers, suburban areas, and multi-dwelling units. Many hybrid fiber coaxial networks contain less than 20,000 homes per network, and twenty percent of networks in North America serve 20,000 homes or less. ADC thinks the systems they have to use to offer such stuff as streaming video and second-line telephony are overkill and says the Cuda 1000 is targeted at these smaller markets. The company says that the 1000 series offers the same performance as its larger Cuda 12000 IP Access Switch in a compact model and supports Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) 1.1 and EuroDOCSIS to let operators put it into existing networks that contain equipment from multiple vendors. An edge router and upconverter are both integrated into the Cuda 1000 and it offers one downstream channel, either four or six upstream channels, and four 10/100 BaseT Ethernet ports allowing multiple IP network connections. It features multiple dedicated processors for wire-speed packet and protocol processing, support for routing information protocol (RIP) V2 and open shortest path first (OSPF) routing, and is AC powered. The Cuda 1000 series will be available in three hardware configurations in November 2001 at a starting price of $26,000.