RDK in the News

RDK President Jason Briggs gives Julian Clover an update on the rollout of the new RDK6.

Ahead of the 2023 RDK Summit in Amsterdam, RDK Management has announced RDK6 – the newest open-source software bundle designed to power video customer-premise equipment (CPE) for pay TV operators worldwide. RDK6 is designed to further streamline the development and deployment of video functionality and apps across IP and hybrid QAM/DVB set-top boxes and will be … Read more

The latest update to the RDK video software (RDK-V) is designed to improve efficiency of deploying video services and, critically, apps across IP and hybrid cable QAM/DVB set-top boxes. It is the latest effort from RDK to match Android TV’s app onboarding process. RDK Management has released the newest open-source software bundle to its technology … Read more

RDK Management says its new RDK video software (RDK-V) will improve the efficiency of deploying video services and apps across IP and hybrid QAM/DVB set-top boxes. The Comcast, Liberty Global and Charter JV plans to release RDK6 during Q4 2023. “RDK6 will provide pay-TV operators with a hyper-efficient, versatile, low-memory utilisation software stack to power … Read more

Ahead of its 2023 RDK Summit in Amsterdam, RDK Management has unveiled RDK6 – the newest version of the open-source software bundle designed to underpin video customer-premise equipment for pay TV operators worldwide. RDK6 is designed to further streamline the development and deployment of video functionality and apps across IP and hybrid QAM/DVB set-top boxes and will be … Read more

The streaming service RTL+ is now available on Vodafone’s TV platform as a pre-installed app. The basis for the GigaTV migration of RTL+ is the Metrological Lightning Framework. TeraVolt has specialised in developments in the Lightning Framework from Metrological (part of Comcast Technology Solutions) for years and was commissioned by RTL and Vodafone for the … Read more

Comcast and Opensync have contributed to a new RDK-B software component that’s been designed to unify Wi-Fi software used in residential gateways, access points, and Wi-Fi extenders. The open source Opensync has been used by Samsung and Plume. Comcast is both an investor in Plume and a leading contributor to RDK. RDK for Broadband (RDK-B) … Read more

The Reference Design Kit (RDK) is about to get better at Wi-Fi. Companies associated with OpenSync, an open-source framework for managed Wi-Fi that originated with Plume and Samsung, and Comcast have come together to contribute a more powerful Wi-Fi software manager to RDK-B, a preintegrated software stack for a range of broadband devices that include … Read more

Eager to drive scale into a new operating system for connected TVs, Germany’s Foxxum said it has struck a deal to integrate its software into a printed circuit board (PCB) made by CVTE, a major TV components supplier based in China. According to Foxxum CEO Ronny Lutzi, the integration is a step along the path … Read more

Listen to the podcast with Jason Briggs and Jeff Baumgartner from Light Reading. Now spanning video and broadband devices and a subset of the Internet of Things (IoT) arena, the Reference Design Kit (RDK) has come a long way since humble beginnings that appear to extend back to circa 2010. RDK, an open-source software stack managed … Read more