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Scientific Atlanta’s SDV platform exceeds 7 million homes passed

ATLANTA -- Scientific Atlanta announced Monday that commitments for its Switched Digital Video (SDV) platform in the United States have exceeded 7 million homes passed. The company said the milestone demonstates its SDV architecture is open and confidently accepted by the industry. The announcement follows Scientific Atlanta’s introduction earlier this year of the Universal Session and Resource Manager, which is a software upgrade to existing SDV servers in any network system. It allows operators to maximize their network investment by sharing quadrature amplitude modulators (QAMs) across both video-on-demand (VoD) and switched digital video traffic. “Scientific Atlanta’s SDV solution provides our...