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ARC International, providing consumer intellectual property (IP) to OEM and semiconductor companies, announced a new license agreement with CopperGate Communications.

 

CopperGate’s products allow consumers to make use of their existing coaxial and phone lines in the home to network for playing and sharing multimedia content through entertainment devices, such as HD-enabled IPTVs and multi-room DVRs. The new ARC license will allow CopperGate to create high-performance chipsets suitable for existing wire home networking and Multi-Dwelling Unit (MDU) broadband access markets.

 

Previously, the home entertainment market included only a single eservice, but now it has evolved to offer combined voice, video and Internet access packages to consumers. CopperGate is desirous of commercializing this technology developed with multi-company consortiums. These companies support and will standardize the new “Triple-Play” services on the existing-wire home networking itself.

 

“Consumers and operators crave bandwidth for home entertainment applications like triple play and this agreement makes it easy for CopperGate to deliver the performance they require,” said Gabi Hilevitz, chief executive officer of CopperGate. “With the latest ARC technology, CopperGate will continue to be the performance leader, staying ahead of growing customer needs by enabling gateways, optical network terminals and set-top boxes to easily network over existing wires.”

 
Bill Jackson, ARC’s vice president of marketing, noted that the prevailing business model for IP licensing is to purchase the project. In a fast-moving, competitive market environment, the model is sorely out of date. This new agreement provides CopperGate a long-term, corporate-wide licensing arrangement that allows them to concentrate on their core technology development, while ARC concurrently enhances the licensed IP.

Israel-based CopperGate Communications is an Everywire Home Networking Company, which develops chipsets for broadband access and networking for high-fidelity home entertainment applications like HD-enabled IPTV (News - Alert) multi-room DVRs, and video on demand (VOD).

 

As the company specializes in multi-wire home networking, it can offer HomePNA and HomePlug technology for individual homes and multi-dwelling and multi-tenant units (MDU/MTU). Its chipsets are deployed by triple-play service providers on millions of lines connecting several thousand miles of coax.

 

ARC International provides consumer IP to OEM and semiconductor companies. Its vertically integrated audio and video solutions allow high-quality multimedia content to be captured, shared and played on different electronic devices. ARC-based chips are used in products like Mobile TVs, Portable Media Players, WiFi (News - Alert)-/WiMAX-enabled computers, flash storage, digital cameras, network appliances, and medical and government systems.