2Wire
Arris Group | |
Headquarters | San Jose, California, United States |
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Key people | Pasquale Romano, President and CEO |
Products | DSL modems Broadband Gateways DVRs |
Website | 2wire.com |
2Wire, Inc., was a computer hardware manufacturer active from 1998 to 2010 that provided telecommunications companies with
History
2Wire was founded in 1998 by
In 2002, the company created a remote customer premises management platform called CMS. Later that year, 2Wire published the Open Gateway Management Protocol (OGMP).
In early 2003, 2Wire delivered a wireless gateway with a complete
The following year, in the spring of 2004, 2Wire launched MediaPortal, a multi-service media platform that integrates DSL and satellite services. The MediaPortal-powered set-top box, combining television, digital video recorder, video, music, photo viewings, and messaging capabilities, was deployed by AT&T in 2006 as part of its Homezone service.[3]
In January 2006, 2Wire introduced the HomePortal intelligent Network Interface Device (iNID), an outdoor broadband residential gateway that supports VDSL2 and
2Wire acquired Kenati Technologies, an
As of June 2008[update], 2Wire had shipped more than 20 million residential gateways to its telecommunications provider customers.
In November 2008, 2Wire and
Products
2Wire produces a series of residential gateways under the HomePortal name that enable home networking with interfaces that range from
The company also produces MediaPortal (not to be confused with the unrelated open-source software
One of their gateways, the 2701, had issues with the power supply, prompting Bell Canada to proactively swap the power supplies to their customers in 2008. Some laptops with two types of Intel wireless adaptors exhibited wireless issues, which were fixed by an updated Intel device driver.[7]
The Pace 5012NV-002 Gateways were only available in Singapore for SingTel exStream Fiber Service and 2wire 2701 Series. In the rest of the world the brand is 2wire.
Affiliations
- Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions
- DSL Forum)
- Digital Living Network Alliance
- Femto Forum
- HomePNA (formerly Home Phoneline Networking Association)
- Home Gateway Initiative
- Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA)
- UPnP Forum(Universal Plug and Play Forum)
- Wi-Fi Alliance
Partnerships
- Alcatel-Lucent
- AT&T
- Bell Canada
- BT Openworld
- CenturyLink
- Embarq
- Juno
- MTS Allstream
- NetZero
- Qwest
- SaskTel
- SingTel
- Telecom New Zealand
- Telenor
- TELMEX
- Telstra
- TELUS
- Verizon
- Windstream
References
- ^ "Pace to buy US broadband company". BBC News. July 26, 2010. Archived from the original on 27 July 2010. Retrieved July 26, 2010.
- ^ "Spec proposed for managing CPE routers and gateways". CommsDesign.
- ^ "2Wire's gateway to follow SBC into living room". CNET News.com.
- ^ "2Wire acquires Kenati Tech". The Hindu Business Line.
- ^ Portnoy, Sean (November 25, 2008). "Blockbuster joins movie-streaming race with 2Wire MediaPoint digital media player". ZDNet Blogs. Archived from the original on 20 December 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
- ^ Dragan, Lauren (December 4, 2008). "Blockbuster Ondemand with 2Wire MediaPoint". Home Entertainment Magazine. Archived from the original on 26 December 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
- ^ "Internet Bell". Archived from the original on 2011-09-09. Retrieved 2011-12-21.