Catena Networks announced a video-over-DSL solution that enables carriers to offer "Triple Play" bundled voice, data and video services. The solution is based on Catena's CN1000 Broadband Loop Carrier (BLC) platform, which integrates the functions of a Next Generation Digital Loop Carrier (NGDLC), a video-enabled DSLAM, a Fiber Multiplexer and a packet-ready Media Gateway. Catena's CN1000 BLC provides integrated IGMP and multicasting capabilities, unlike other older DSLAMs and DLCs that need a co-located IGMP router in order to multicast video streams. Catena provides the ability to software-provision video services to any line its BLC serves. A set-top box is used at the subscriber end. At SuperComm, Catena is showing is DSL video network that uses video headend equipment from Entone and VideTele; video middleware from Myrio; and set-top boxes from Entone, Fujitsu Siemens Computers and i3 Micro.
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- Catena Networks has raised US$192 million in venture financing since its founding in 1998. The company is headquartered in Kanata, Ontario,
Canada.
Catena Networks is headed by Jim Hjartarson, a co-founder of the company. Prior to forming Catena, Hjartarson was vice president and general manager at Cadence Design Systems, where he co-founded the Cadence Design Center in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
