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Increasing Bandwidth Demand and Hybrid Fiber-Coax Networks

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Global IP traffic will increase nearly threefold over the next 5 years. This means that the need for bandwidth is already growing beyond current capabilities. Why?

October 18, 2017

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Cisco adds No-Touch SmartNode Capabilities to its Infinite Broadband solution

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Introducing the worlds first Smartnode, the GS7000i, a new product for Cisco's Infinite Broadband solution. Bringing automation to the Cable Access networks.

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.

January 26, 2017

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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 […]

December 15, 2016

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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 […]

ANGA 2014: Igniting Growth for Service Providers

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By Mike McKeown – Director of Business Development for Service Provider Video at Cisco, EMEAR It may be a month of bank holidays in Europe, but there’s no standing still for the video industry in May. We’re proud to say that it started with an announcement from Synergy Research (at the end of April) that […]