provides broadband transmission networks, digital interactive subscriber systems, and customer service and support for the cable television industry, worldwide.
It produces various broadband products, which deliver entertainment, information, and communications from content originators to end users.
The company offers products that reside in consumers’ homes and businesses, including digital interactive set-tops, high-speed data and voice modems, and data networking products; integrated computer systems and software at the cable operators’ headends, which systems manage video and data services for large networks; radio frequency electronics products that provide connectivity within the neighborhoods to each consumer’s home; optical communications products that transport information within metropolitan areas to individual neighborhoods; and satellite communications equipment that transports programming from its source to geographically distributed headends.
These products enable operators to transmit video, data, and voice over the same cable operator network with a reverse path for the end user customer to communicate back through the network to various services.
In addition, the company provides installation, configuration, integration, and consulting services.
It sells its products primarily through a direct sales force, independent sales representatives, independent distributors, and system integrators throughout the United States.
Its customers include cable television operators, television programmers and broadcasters, corporations, telephone companies, municipal utilities, and other broadband service providers.
Scientific-Atlanta was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
