Hitron Technologies Americas joined the RDK community as an Advanced Support Program (ASP) partner and Platinum Media Sponsorship Program (MSP) member.
“It’s an exciting time to join the RDK community,” Todd Babic, chief sales and marketing officer, Hitron Technologies Americas. “Clearly, the community has significant momentum with manufacturers and MSOs alike. With upcoming DOCSIS 3.1 gateway deployments, we will also see the proliferation of RDK-B powered CPE.”
The Reference Design Kit for Broadband, or RDK-B, aims to create a standardized IP endpoint, ensuring that critical functions are present across different silicon and outsourced hardware solutions while minimizing product testing costs.
Hitron reportedly delivers more than three million DOCSIS-based products annually to major cable operators worldwide. Hitron’s hardware and software are designed in-house with manufacturing in Hitron’s newly expanded factory in Suzhou, China.
The open RDK software solution enables TV and ISPs to standardize certain elements of customer premises equipment while customizing the applications and user experiences that ride on top. RDK-B provides common methods to manage complex broadband functions such as home-networking interfaces, including Wi-Fi and Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA), wide area networking, local area networking, device management and diagnostics, smart home/IoT (Bluetooth, Thread, Zigbee) and video service (multicast video). Both software solutions are available at no cost to RDK licensees in an open-source manner, and RDK community member companies can contribute software changes and enhancements to either RDK stack.
RDK has been licensed by more than 120 companies, including multiple operators globally, including Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Liberty Global, and Kabel Deutschland.
