Hitron Americas Technologies has joined the RDK community as an Advanced Support Program (ASP) partner and Platinum Media Sponsorship Program (MSP) member.
The Reference Design Kit for Broadband, RDK-B, aims to create a standardized IP endpoint, ensuring that critical functions are present across different silicon and outsourced hardware solutions while minimizing product testing costs.
The open RDK software solution is intended to enable TV and Internet service providers to standardize certain elements of customer premises equipment (CPE) while allowing custom applications and user experiences.
RDK-B provides common methods to manage home networking interfaces, including WiFi and MoCA, wide area networking, local area networking, device management and diagnostics, smart home/IoT (Bluetooth, Thread, Zigbee) and video service (multicast video). Both software solutions are available at no cost to RDK licensees in an open-source manner, and RDK community member companies can contribute software changes and enhancements to either RDK stack.