Company: LBTYK
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001570585-25-000021
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Company: Liberty Global Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 are based on DOCSIS 3.1 technology and WiFi 6, providing even better in-home WiFi service and coverage. Our new DOCSIS 3.1 Connect Box runs our “One Firmware” stack, a middleware software system based on the Reference Design Kit for Broadband (RDK-B). RDK-B is an open source initiative with wide participation from operators, device manufacturers and silicon vendors that standardizes core functions used in broadband devices, set-top boxes and IoT solutions. We have extended the One Firmware stack to support our ONE Connect ecosystem. One Firmware runs on system-on-a-chip (SOC) technology from multiple vendors and can run on any SOC that is RDK-B compliant, enabling greater speed and agility for on-boarding of new customer premises equipment (CPE) platforms and ecosystem features, thus allowing us to build once and port to many. During 2024, we continued the roll out of One Firmware to our legacy DOCSIS 3.0 WiFi 5 GW products and our next generation DOCSIS 3.1 WiFi 6 GW products. In addition, we completed the porting activity of One Firmware to our new XGSPON WiFi 6 gateways, which we have now rolled out in all of our markets. To support the adoption of fiber-to-the-home, cabinet, building or node networks (fiber-to-the-home/-cabinet/-building/-node is referred to herein as FTTx) access in both on-net and off-net scenarios, we introduced XGSPON (an updated standard for passive optical networks that supports 10 Gbps symmetrical data transfers) and ethernet-based Connect Boxes with WiFi 6, providing speeds up to 10 Gbps that run our One Firmware and support our ONE Connect ecosystem. In 2023, we introduced a new WiFi 6 Mesh extender device, adding to our three previous generations, the “ONE Connect Mesh,” which provides our WiFi Mesh system that is fully orchestrated and optimized via the ONE Connect Platform. In 2024, we introduced CPE to support a two-box architecture by adding an XGSPON Optical Network Units, to terminate XGSPON and present ethernet, via a new Connect Box to a WiFi 6 ethernet gateway running our One Firmware, and which is expected to become the dominant configuration in our footprint to support various on-net, off-net and wholesale models.

In 2023, we provided the world’s first test of DOCSIS 4 technology on live network infrastructure, capable of