ARRIS Offers RDK Lab Accelerator to Support the Rapid Development of New Video Applications Hickory, N.C – April 8, 2019 The RDK Lab Accelerator is now available globally as the core RDK video application reference platform, providing the RDK community the ability to rapidly develop, test and deliver innovative services. ARRIS (now part of CommScope via acquisition) today … Read more
ARRIS, CommScope unveil RDK Lab Accelerator Advanced Television – April 8, 2019 ARRIS has announced the availability of the RDK Lab Accelerator, a solution jointly developed by ARRIS, Metrological and RDK Management. The RDK Lab Accelerator is based on the ARRIS VIP5202W UHD IP set-top and provides the RDK community an efficient application development platform … Read more
RDK Americas Summit: It’s a Wrap! Thanks to everyone who joined us for the 2019 RDK Americas Summit in Philadelphia on March 19! Your presence elevated the event to “biggest ever” attendance – 350 of you, representing 15 operators, 20 exhibitors, and 25 countries. We were fortunate to be at the new Comcast Technology Center, … Read more
Ziggo launches RDK-based Mediabox CSI Magazine – March 6, 2019 Dutch cable operator Ziggo is replacing its six-year old legacy set-top box with a new version based on Liberty Global’s Horizon 4 platform. The new box, branded as Mediabox Next, will replace the previous Mediabox XL, dating to 2012. The next-generation product was developed … Read more
A Q&A with Comcast’s Nithya Ruff Nithya Ruff heads Comcast’s open source office, and is a widely recognized pioneer in the open source community. She embarked on her first open source software journey in 1998, at Silicon Graphics Inc., when she was asked to join an open source strategy group. Its task: To figure out … Read more
Everything You Need to Know About the 2019 RDK Americas Summit What will you build tomorrow? Hello, RDK Community colleagues, and FYI that it’s probably time to start thinking about booking travel (and hotels) for the 2019 RDK Americas Summit, which is happening at the new Comcast Technology Center in Philadelphia on March 19. We’ve been hard … Read more
Getting to Know RDK’s Firebolt By now you’ve likely heard of Firebolt, the SDK that simplifies the porting of HTML5 and native applications onto RDK-based environments. It was announced during IBC last month as a much-desired way to onboard premium apps onto RDK. Ultimately, Firebolt was designed to provide a ready-to-use, platform-independent development, build, and … Read more
RDK at the 2018 SCTE Cable-Tec Expo: the Recap ATLANTA–Five years ago, in Atlanta, the RDK Community debuted to the industry’s technical brain trust with a workshop session and a small-but-dedicated roster of OEM and SoC partner booths. The occasion was the 2013 SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, which typically attracts upwards of 9,000 attendees — making … Read more
Celebrating Its Fifth Birthday, RDK Looks to Further Proliferate into Home Broadband Multichannel News – October 24, 2018 ATLANTA – Setting the table for a Cable-Tec Expo panel discussion on the state of the cable industry’s Reference Design Kit (RDK) open source software initiate five years after launch, moderator Leslie Ellis noted a few fast … Read more
Open Source Opening New Doors for RDK LightReading – October 24, 2018 ATLANTA — SCTE Cable-Tec Expo — Taking an open source approach is enabling the Reference Design Kit (RDK) to enter new global markets and eye opportunities with service providers that aren’t cable operators. More than ten operators primarily based in the US, Europe … Read more