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10/27/2017
Charter Has Deployed 1 Million-Plus WorldBoxes
Charter Communications dropped a few technology tidbits into its Q3 call Thursday, touching on activities and plans involving video, broadband and wireless/mobile.
Charter, company president and CEO Tom Rutledge said, had deployed more than 1 million WorldBox devices across its national footprint by the end of Q3. Those hybrid IP/QAM devices use the company’s new cloud-based guide and a downloadable security platform that allows the company to deploy it in all systems – Charter legacy systems as well as the former Time Warner Cable and Bright House Network footprints.
Charter originally tapped vendors such as Cisco Systems (before it sold its CPE business to Technicolor) and Humax to make the WorldBox, but since tapped Arris to aid a WorldBox 2.0 project that aims to be more cost-efficient than its predecessor.
