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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 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 […]

December 2, 2016

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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 […]

November 28, 2016

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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 […]

November 17, 2016

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Remote Phy, The wonderful thing about standards

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“The wonderful thing about “standards” is that there are so many to choose from!

November 15, 2016

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Designing CCAP for DOCSIS 3.1 and Beyond

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Written By Daniel Etman, Director Product Marketing CABU We often get asked what we mean by claiming that the Cisco cBR8 is designed from the ground up for DOCSIS 3.1 and beyond. In fact, there is a lot of confusion out there with regard to different hardware architectures in use by the various CCAP vendors. […]

September 27, 2016

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Innovations and Patents for Cisco’s Virtual CMTS

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By Daniel Etman, Director of Product Management, Cable Access Business, Cisco Cisco is leading the discussion about virtualizing network functions this week at the SCTE event in Philadelphia. By providing an open and programmable software-based platform that can support both data and video processing in headends and data centers, cable operators can simplify and automate […]

The Benefits of DOCSIS 3.1

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DOCSIS 3.1 has finally arrived! After years of talk and development, we are finally beginning to see the initial roll-outs of this next-generation technology.  A few years have passed since the benefits of DOCSIS 3.1 were touted.  Are those benefits still relevant today? It is worth revisiting what those benefits are. In order to fully […]