RDK in the News

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 their set-top boxes,” said…

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 available in Q4 2023,…

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 implementation of this project.…

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) consists of open-source software…

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 residential gateways, access points…

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 in Foxxum’s push to…