SAN DIEGO and BROOMFIELD, Colo., Oct. 26, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Entropic Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENTR), a leading provider of silicon and software solutions to enable connected home entertainment, and Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) (SWX:ADBN), a leading supplier of technology to the global digital television industry, today announced that Advanced Digital Broadcast's ADB-6882CDMX set-top box has become the industry's first MoCA(R) 1.1 certified cable set-top box. The ADB-6882CDMX is designed specifically for Multiple System Operator (MSO) to offer new home networking options to their subscribers.
The ADB-6882CDMX is powered by Entropic's EN2210/EN1010, MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) compliant chipset, which enables a complete coaxial network solution for the distribution of multiple streams of HD video, broadband data and other digital content throughout the home. The ADB-6882CDMX delivers the newest features and performance enhancements of MoCA 1.1, the standard for home entertainment networking, using existing coaxial cable in the home and providing superior throughput and range versus other wired and wireless networking technologies available today.
"By using Entropic's market leading silicon and leveraging their proven MoCA deployment experience we are bringing to market the first MoCA 1.1 certified set-top box to cable operators," said Tim Schermerhorn, senior vice president and general manager of Advanced Digital Broadcast's Americas cable business unit. "Entropic's silicon solutions combined with ADB's set-top box design and engineering expertise offer MSOs the most advanced, robust technology today for connected home entertainment applications based on the MoCA standard."
"This is a significant milestone for the MoCA standard worldwide and we congratulate Entropic and ADB for developing the industry's first STB to receive MoCA 1.1 certification," said Rob Gelphman, chair, Marketing Work Group, Multimedia over Coax Alliance. "By working with ADB, a top-tier European vendor, to develop this STB, Entropic continues to build momentum and promote their commitment to the MoCA standard for worldwide adoption in both the cable industry and home networking market."
The MoCA 1.1 certified ADB-6882CDMX will take advantage of the breadth of features that the latest MoCA standard offers including:
* Turning existing coax wiring into a high-powered home entertainment network for streaming HD movies and multi-room content sharing * Higher network throughput over MoCA 1.0, up to 175 Mbps of application layer throughput * Increased network size of up to 16 MoCA devices * Built in network management support for gathering data rate statistics * Service operator class robustness and reliability with support for Parameterized Quality of Service (PQoS) protected delivery of premium content across the home network * Fueling the future convergence of high-bandwidth, personal content applications without compromising the delivery of premium service offerings
"This MoCA 1.1 certification for an advanced cable STB provides further momentum for MoCA as the de facto standard for home entertainment networking providing new ways to experience and consume multimedia content in the home," said Vinay Gokhale, senior vice president marketing and business development, Entropic. "ADB's selection of Entropic's silicon is a testament to our commitment to deploy a complete and comprehensive value set for increased performance, ease of use, lower power consumption and reduced implementation cost. By working with ADB to deliver this STB, we continue to lead the charge in the evolution of home entertainment networking."
About ADB
Advanced Digital Broadcast (www.adbglobal.com) is a leader in the design, development and supply of high-quality products to the world-wide digital television market. The Company has deployed over 13 million set-top boxes, across high-volume markets, incorporating the industry's pioneering middleware, conditional access and hardware technologies.
ADB has established itself as a trusted partner to television operators supporting them to launch new services using state-of-the-art technology. Through its unique end-to-end understanding of set-top box software, ADB is able to design and supply highly efficient and optimized hardware platforms ahead of the competition.
Approximately 70% of ADB's workforce is dedicated to engineering; developing products across all the digital television technology platforms including cable, Internet Protocol (IP), satellite and terrestrial. The company is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with its main Research and Development facility in Zielona Gora, Poland and Operations division in Taipei, Taiwan. ADB has local representation in Australia, Italy, Singapore, Spain, the Ukraine, the United States and the United Kingdom.
ADB is a member of ADB Group; ADB Group (www.adbholdings.com) is publicly listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange (SWX:ADBN).
About Entropic Communications
Entropic Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENTR) is a leading fabless semiconductor company that is engineering the future of connected home networking and entertainment by providing next-generation silicon and software technologies to the world's leading cable, telco and satellite service providers, OEM's and consumer electronic manufacturers. As a co-founder of MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance), Entropic pioneered and continues to evolve the way high-definition television-quality video and other multimedia & digital content such as movies, music, games and photos are brought into and delivered throughout the home. For more information, visit Entropic at www.entropic.com.
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Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical in nature constitute "forward-looking statements." Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding Entropic's leadership in providing MoCA enabled technology, and continued or future integration of Entropic's technology into products of OEMs. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause Entropic's actual results to be materially different from historical results or from any results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the effects of competition; Entropic's dependence on a limited number of service providers and customers; Entropic's ability to successfully collaborate and introduce new and enhanced products on a timely basis; the risk that the market for high-definition television-quality video and multimedia content delivery solutions, including the use of satellite distribution, may not develop as anticipated; the effect of intellectual property rights claims; and other factors discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of Entropic's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended June 30, 2009. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. Entropic is providing this information as of the date of this release and does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.