cBR-8 Evolved CCAP

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.

January 31, 2017

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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 […]

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, […]

December 8, 2016

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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 […]

October 13, 2015

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Cisco at the 2015 SCTE Cable-Tec Expo

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It’s Expo Eve down here in New Orleans, where the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center will soon fill with the technology people of the cable and broadband industry. Us included! We’ve been planning for months for this year’s SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, and are appreciably stocked (I hope!) with all of the elements that multichannel video […]