Motorola Announces Agreement with Time Warner Cable for Advanced Cable Modems and Infrastructure

Strategic Insights -

Motorola's Multimedia Group has entered into an agreement with Time Warner Cable to provide advanced cable modems and infrastructure for high-speed data communications. The agreement, valued at up to $50 million, involves the provision of up to 50,000 CyberSURFR cable modems and Cable Router infrastructure products to Time Warner Cable over a 12-month period, starting in April 1996. This deal enables Time Warner's subscribers to access high-speed internet, multimedia, and entertainment services via their personal computers.

Key Takeaways:

  • Motorola will provide up to 50,000 CyberSURFR cable modems and Cable Router infrastructure products to Time Warner Cable for commercial deployment.
  • The agreement has a potential value of up to $50 million.
  • The CyberSURFR cable modem offers throughput speeds of up to 10 Mbps in the downstream path and 768 Kbps in the upstream path.
  • The Cable Router is installed in the network headend and interfaces the hybrid fiber/coax distribution network to local or remote IP networks.
  • Motorola's CableComm product family features unsurpassed system reliability, superior bandwidth management, and low-cost deployment and operation.
  • Time Warner Cable is the second-largest owner and operator of cable systems in the United States, with approximately 10 million subscribers.
  • Motorola's Multimedia Group develops, manufactures, and markets systems for the convergence of voice, data, and video communications services over advanced broadband multimedia platforms.

Statistics:

  • Up to 50,000 CyberSURFR cable modems and Cable Router infrastructure products will be deployed by Time Warner Cable.
  • The agreement has a potential value of up to $50 million.
  • The CyberSURFR cable modem offers throughput speeds of up to 10 Mbps in the downstream path.
  • The upstream path throughput of the CyberSURFR cable modem is 768 Kbps.
  • Time Warner's subscribers will access high-speed internet, multimedia, and entertainment services via up to 10 Mbps downstream path.

Sources:

  • PRNewswire, "Motorola Inc. - Multimedia Group Announces Agreement In Principle To Provide Time Warner Cable And Its Affiliate Companies With Advanced Cable Modems And Infrastructure" (November 1995)
  • Motorola Inc., "CyberSURFR Cable Modem Product Information"
  • Time Warner Cable, "About Time Warner Cable"
  • Motorola Inc., "Annual Report 1994"
  • CyberSURFR, CableComm, and Cable Router are trademarks of Motorola, Inc.