The U.S. Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act has a $1 billion program to create middle mile networks that connect the Internet backbone with the last mile to expand broadband and improve access.
The future is fiber, the present is Data Over Cable System Interface Specification (DOCSIS). This blog shares a few strategy and technology options from a CTO’s viewpoint.
Now is the time we appreciate our home broadband infrastructure. Although put in place primarily for evening Internet usage, it is now working overtime to provide additional daytime enterprise, school, and gaming use. Let’s talk a little bit about what we are seeing in these extraordinary past few months.
John Chapman, Cisco’s CTO for the cable industry explores new technology that builds on a cable operators current HFC network. He covers the business opportunity, provides a definition of mobile backhaul over DOCIS and shows how the business value of using existing plant for mobile backhaul.
5G and 10G are complementary in that they’re architecturally symbiotic: For mobile carriers to go to 5G, they’ll need smaller cells – for every one macro cell, as many as 50 small cells. That’s challenge enough...
Occasionally, when in the middle of a vast and highly complex architectural transition, it makes sense to pull up and survey the situation. This is one of those times.
In the future, every node will connect to every hub site - which will be transformative for service providers. DOCSIS 3.1 will give them at least a decade of growing room.
We’ve partnered with CableLabs to develop a way for DOCSIS to grow to handle mobile backhaul -- for 4G/LTE networks to start, and 5G installations as they start to emerge in meaningful ways.
