The FINANCIAL -- Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) on October 26 announced the first major deployment of its RF over Glass (RFoG) solution with leading regional cable operator MetroCast Communications.

MetroCast will deploy the Motorola RFoG solution at select Virginia properties in specific rebuild areas, upgrading existing coaxial networks to fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) as it moves to increase bandwidth capacity for new digital and high-definition television (HDTV) channels, provide video on demand (VoD) services, voice services and tiered broadband services.

A key trend in the cable industry is the progression of building fiber deeper into the network and increasing video capacity, voice and ultra-broadband data services to business and residential customers. Motorola all-fiber RFoG solutions have proven to be cost effective and easy to deploy; providing cable operators with ways to expand their service offerings while maintaining existing back-office operations, video infrastructure and customer premises equipment (CPE). The Motorola RFoG portfolio offers a standards-based, non-proprietary platform to expand existing video, voice and data services over an all-fiber network and enables new growth opportunities, such as commercial service applications where legacy voice and new IP-based services are needed. Motorola RFoG solutions offer cable operators:

    --  A foundation for evolving cable networks to all-fiber
    --  Legacy investment protection using the same optical headend, operational
        support systems (OSS) and customer premises equipment (CPE)

    --  Improved business performance enabling the delivery of higher-tiered
        business class services with a low cost all-fiber network including
        cost-saving passive elements

"Evolving our network simply and economically is important to us. Deploying Motorola's RFoG solution helps us meet customer demand for new and improved entertainment and broadband services while laying the groundwork for the future," said Bill Lee, vice president of Engineering, MetroCast.

"As demand grows for enhanced video, voice and data services, cable providers of all sizes are considering the option of all-fiber for service delivery," said Kevin Keefe, vice president of Marketing and Product Management, Access Network Solutions, Motorola Home & Networks Mobility. "Motorola's end-to-end RFoG solution is a first step in the evolution to passive optical networking, and it provides investment protection by using key elements of existing cable infrastructure as well as set-tops and modems already in consumer homes."

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