Articles
Remote Phy, Why CIN Architectures Matter
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Discover the important of the Converged Interconnect Network for Remote Phy architectures.
Lifting the veil on Full Duplex DOCSIS
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In this blog we will be lifting the veil on Full Duplex DOCSIS, what are the core technologies that are being used?
Legacy HFC – Viable and Valuable as ever
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Read about latest linear technology and how it complements and helps to control costs in an evolving network.
Using Segment Routing to Unlock the Full Potential of the RPHY Converged Interconnect Network
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As the cable industry prepares to transition towards distributed access architectures utilizing the CableLabs Remote PHY standard, it’s starting to see the many benefits that RPHY can bring.
Remote PHY, Cablelabs Interoperability “plug-fest” December 2016
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December 2016 will go into history as the month when the first “ Open RPD” Remote PHY interop was completed at Cablelabs®. The event, hosted by Cablelabs® took place in Denver the week of the 5th of December. Multiple vendors participated, many of them member of the Open-RPD forum. What was Open-RPD again? Open-RPD is […]
Fiber Deep Architectures and the Optical Node
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Written by Tim Brophy, Product Manager Cable Access Business Unit In a recent blog, we discussed Fiber Deep (FD) architectures and their place in the end-to-end network. We emphasized there that the physical topology is geared toward balancing the number of subscribers per service group, and that the capacity of each service group increases by […]
Looking Back at 2016, a Year in Cable
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As we have just come back from the holidays and spent time with family and loved ones, I wanted to take the opportunity to look back at 2016 and provide you with some of the highlights for Cisco in Cable Access over the year. In May 2016 we celebrated the first birthday of the cBR-8, […]
The benefits of Deep Fiber HFC
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Written by Tim Brophy, Product Manager Cable Access Business Unit More and more these days, service providers in the access market are talking about the evolution of their plants to a Fiber Deep (FD) Architecture. While the trend toward driving fiber into the plant and reducing RF amplifier cascades is not new, today’s discussions seem […]
cBR8, NAGRA CA and Cisco Videoguard CA certification
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Today, Cisco is proudly announcing that our cBR-8 Evolved CCAP has achieved both NAGRA CA (Conditional Access) and Cisco’s Videoguard CA certification in compliance with the standard DVB Simulcrypt used in Europe and other parts of the world for delivery of digital cable video to STBs. Why is this important? Well, it allows cable operators […]
Cloud Native CMTS, Next Gen Virtualization for Cable Access
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Virtualization is an overloaded word. Originally it was used to describe a form of hardware emulation, but these days it appears that any form of software abstraction is called “virtualization”. In the context of the CMTS the term cloud native more accurately describes the upcoming evolution of the CMTS than virtualization. Cloud native is becoming […]
DAA for Cable Access, separating myths from reality
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Tasked with answering the question of “Why is a Remote PHY Architecture is better than a Remote MAC/PHY architecture” it would be prudent to articulate first what advantages Remote PHY has to offer over other proprietary solutions and let the readers draw their own conclusion. Let’s first call out immediately that the only ratified specification […]
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