CES: Broadcom Powers Pace's Comcast X1 Set-Tops

U.K. set-top maker using Broadcom's connected home set-top box chip

By Todd Spangler, Multichannel News -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/7/2013 8:02:00 AM

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Las Vegas -- U.K. set-top maker Pace is using Broadcom's connected home set-top box chip, running Comcast's Reference Design Kit middleware, in the RNG150N interactive set-top now shipping to subscribers of the Comcast Xfinity X1 service.

The Comcast RNG150N set-top is based on Broadcom's BCM7125 system-on-a-chip and runs RDK version 1.1, which is based on CableLabs' OpenCable Application Platform spec.

The Broadcom chip supports video-on-demand, IP video streaming and integration of Comcast's X1 user interface system with features for social networking, personalization and fast search.

The Pace RNG150N set-top can be configured to run the X1 user interface as a multiroom DVR client device connected to an XG1 DVR gateway server.

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