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SCKIPIO DEMONSTRATES AT CES WORLD’S FIRST UHDTV RUNNING ACROSS A G.FAST
TELEPHONE NETWORK
SUPPORT FOR 4K UHDTV SERVICES BY TELCOS NOW VALIDATED
January 5, 2015, International CES, Las Vegas, Nevada – Sckipio Technologies, the leader in
G.fast chipsets, announced the world’s first public demo of ultra-high definition television over a
G.fast ultra-broadband network.
“Consumers want their broadband supplier to support 4K TV services,” said David Baum, CEO of
Sckipio Technologies. “However, DSL isn’t fast enough. Only Sckipio’s G.fast solution today is
proven to deliver UHDTV over real-world telco environments to up to 16 concurrent subscribers per
distribution point.”
G.fast is the new ultra broadband access standard approved by the ITU in December 2014. This
standard is designed to support up to 1Gbps of broadband access to consumers over existing
telephone wires. The typical G.fast deployment has subscribers connected through a distribution
point close to the home. From there, it connects via fiber to the central office. The Sckipio solution is
the only G.fast solution to support 16 concurrent subscribers on one distribution point.
The mass deployment of UHDTV services is limited by the availability of high bandwidth broadband
access – especially for telephone-based broadband service providers. To support four separate
streams of 4K broadcasts with a high service level guarantee will require up to 200Mbps of capacity.
Add on top of that over-the-top (OTT) services such as NetFlix, YouTube, etc. in 4K and the
requirements for high speed continue to grow. Only G.fast offers the ability to support the high
capacity over copper wires that’s needed to deliver UHDTV.
The demonstration consists of Sckipio’s 16-port DPU reference design and 16 Sckipio CP1000-EVM
CPE reference design bridges, running over a 50 meters binder. The DPU runs full G.fast stack with
vectoring and it is connected to a media center with 4K content that is streaming to a CPE that is
connected to a 4K STB and TV. In the demonstration, each 4K video stream runs over the G.fast
line and consumes around 65Mbps.
About Sckipio
Sckipio is the leader in G.fast modems and is dedicated to delivering ultra-broadband using next-
generation G.fast-based Fiber-to-the-distribution point (FTTdp) architectures. Sckipio offers a
complete G.fast solution – chipsets bundled with software – for a variety of access and mobile
backhaul applications based on the ITU G.fast G.9700 and G.9701 standards, to which Sckipio is a
leading contributor. Founded by a veteran team of communications experts with deep experience in
broadband access and home networking solutions, and backed by leading venture capitalists,
Sckipio is well positioned to win the market for the next-generation of broadband access solutions.
For more information about Sckipio, visit our website at www.sckipio.com. For more information,
follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @SckipioTech.
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