ANADIGICS announces industry's first family of gateway splitters featuring up to eight RF outputs

TOKYO, JAPAN: ANADIGICS Inc. has launched the industry's first family of gateway splitters that provide up to eight RF outputs. These additional RF outputs are new to ANADIGICS's APS3600 splitter family targeted for use in home gateways which incorporate multiple tuner architectures.

ANADIGICS new five-way splitter, the APS3625, incorporates a by-pass function to enable cable supported voice phones to function even in the event of a power loss. This family of splitters also offers exceptional linearity over the cable spectrum and low return loss, thus delivering enhanced image and sound quality in a multitude of applications.

The new family of gateway splitters offers several benefits to equipment manufacturers, service providers and consumers. Equipment manufacturers benefit from integrated active solutions that have high linearity and low noise which does not degrade the signal integrity. Service providers can benefit from lower equipment costs since the box size is potentially smaller due to fewer components than traditional passive designs.

Consumers with networked entertainment devices can now enjoy the features of their primary STB or DVR, from any room within the house, resulting in an improved user experience. Businesses such as hotels can expand their TV services to more than 15 different hotel rooms using equipment containing these active splitter devices.

"The market for centralized gateways is beginning to multiply as there is an increasing need to connect applications such as a DVR, TV, and digital phones across a single home network to provide enhanced features to end-users," stated Ray Aubert, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, ANADIGICS.

"ANADIGICS has been innovating in CATV for many years, delivering some of the industry's most popular splitters and integrated tuners for the cable set-top box market. With the tremendous growth in demand for multimedia applications in business and at home, we continue to innovate, delivering industry-firsts, such as the APS3600 gateway splitters, which are highly integrated and deliver strong signal performance, high quality outputs and added functionality to meet current and future market requirements."