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
RDK Euro Summit: It’s a Wrap! By Leslie Ellis AMSTERDAM–If a healthy open source community is evidenced by mutually beneficial code contributions and massive collaboration on technological advancements — like at the RDK European Summit, held here on Sept. 18 — then the RDK is in excellent shape. Throughout the daylong conference, attended by core … Read more
Metrological named first RDK pre-integrated App Store for Worldwide Operators The new app program, recently unveiled by RDK Management gives operators the flexibility to use the open source RDK App Framework to build and manage their own solutions, or choose a RDK pre-integrated app store solution such as the Metrological App Store. To support global … Read more
Alticast to Showcase Ambient TV on RDK-based STB during SCTE As a member of the RDK community, Alticast’s services include not only integration and deployment of RDK solutions, but also system integration, code management and ongoing support. With over 18 years of successful deployments in the video industry, our expertise and knowledge are continuously sought … Read more
RDK and its role in the transformation to a data-driven video product organization In the not so distant past, it took a pay-TV operator up to 36 months to build a new platform and several years to roll it out completely to millions of homes. New entrants to digital video including Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and … Read more
Metrological and Technicolor Speed Delivery of Integrated OTT and IP Experiences with New Browser Architecture for STBs Earlier this month, Technicolor and Metrological, both members of the RDK Community, announced a joint solution to help operators accelerate the deployment of innovative OTT services. Under the agreement, Technicolor is adopting Metrological’s Application Platform along with Web-Platform … Read more
Hitron Launches Hitron Labs, a Fun, Clever Video Campaign for Their “Unleash Your Wi-Fi” Solution Hitron Technologies Inc., the fastest-growing DOCSIS customer premise equipment (CPE) manufacturer in North America, announced the release of a fun, clever and engaging video campaign to educate operators, as well as their subscribers, on the company’s world-class turn-key whole-home Wi-Fi … Read more