Multicom Awarded Pro:Idiom® License - HDTV Solutions for Hospitality



Orlando, FL – February 2011  - Multicom is proud to announce that it has been awarded the Pro:Idiom® service provider license from LG Electronics USA and now may directly offer Pro:Idiom®-based HDTV (high definition TV) encryption systems to the Hospitality industry in North America and worldwide. Multicom is now also certified in a variety of LG Electronics hospitality product offerings, including the FMA, Pro:Centric, and Code Plus.


With this licensing Multicom builds on its current capabilities and expands its HDTV capabilities further for the hospitality industry. Multicom has already shipped over 3,000 headends, upgrades, and expansions into a variety of markets, including hospitality.


"We are very proud to have been awarded the Pro:Idiom license. Multicom continues in its legacy of innovation, contributions, and service to the industry. Now Multicom is ready to provide state-of-the-art innovations for the hospitality industry. Multicom is well-known for its breadth and depth of experience and customer focus across a number of industries and markets including: private cable operators, commercial CATV, municipalities, utilities, independent telco, and others", said Sherman G. Miller, Multicom's President and CEO.


Established in 1982 and headquartered in Orlando, FL, Multicom maintains sales offices, rep agencies and sub-distributors throughout North and Latin America. Multicom stocks over 13,000 products from more than 270 of the world's major manufacturers which are used to acquire, process, and distribute audio, video, data, energy, and traffic control signals over fiber optic, copper, and coax cable. Its affiliate company, Mconnect, Inc. provides Next Level VoIP residential and business telephone services through resellers and cable operators.


For more information, call 1-800-423-2594, e-mail to multicom@multicominc.com or visit www.multicominc.com.


Additional details


Multicom’s Indoor and Outdoor ONTs:

  • Can provide IPTV, RF video, WiFi, voice, data all from the same compact unit


Multicom’s OLT:

  • Controls the indoor and outdoor ONTs via an easy-to-use graphical interface
  • About ½ the cost of the competition
  • Provides huge bandwidth for video, data, and voice - all in a compact unit
  • Now affordably scalable from small private systems up to very large deployments


Multicom’s Open GPON Solution:

  • Future-proof: Huge bandwidth fiber provides video, voice, data capabilities all on one fiber.  Everything the subscriber needs on one easy-to-use network, supporting a variety of standards, no matter what the data and traffic needs are for the present and into the future.
  • Reliable: Eliminates the constant headaches of legacy systems - immunity to corrosion, RFI, ground loops, lightning
  • State-of-the-art AND an Open System!
  • Interworks with many closed system OLTs and all open system OLTs


The Multicom Open GPON Solution provides leading edge GPON equipment: the 9016 and 9264 OLTs which have been deployed globally with millions of subscribers and the innovative 8215 and 8255 indoor ONTs, with IPTV and RF Video Overlay on fiber, respectively, and the 7353 outdoor ONTs. The Multicom GPON solution also includes the feature-rich, value-priced Multicom brand fiber optic product line including 1550nm optical transmitters, 1550nm EDFAs, and a variety of passives, splitters, interconnect patch panels, and Corning fiber optic cable.