Daniel Etman
Product Marketing Director
Cisco's Cable Access Business
Articles
Remote Phy, Why CIN Architectures Matter
Written by Gitesh Shah, Technical Marketing Engineer Cable Access Business Unit We have discussed the benefits of a Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) with Fiber-Deep topology using R-PHY standard in a previous blog (DAA for Cable Access, separating myths from reality). Today I wanted to talk abo…
Lifting the veil on Full Duplex DOCSIS
Written by John Holobinko, Director Access Strategy, Cable Access Business Unit Traditional cable access systems can only transmit data in one direction across any part of the spectrum. Compared to PONs, a cable access network is severely limited in the maximum symmetrical data speed it can support…
Legacy HFC – Viable and Valuable as ever
Written by Tim Brophy, Product Manager Cable Access Business Unit In recent blogs, we focused on fiber deep architectures and changes in topology. The implication one might draw is that this “network of the future” is the one and only thing operators should pursue moving forward and that…
Using Segment Routing to Unlock the Full Potential of the RPHY Converged Interconnect Network
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. One of those key benefits is around simplifying the network, which is the focus of this blog. Today there is…
Remote PHY, Cablelabs Interoperability “plug-fest” December 2016
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…
Fiber Deep Architectures and the Optical Node
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 th…
Looking Back at 2016, a Year in Cable
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, our evolved CCA…
The benefits of Deep Fiber HFC
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 c…
cBR8, NAGRA CA and Cisco Videoguard CA certification
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 i…
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