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Guest blog written by Alon Bernstein, Distinguished Engineer, Cable Access Business Unit  Using the DOCSIS network to backhaul LTE/5G appears as an obvious way to get a cable operator into the mobile market. In fact, the current cable network can be viewed as a massive WiFi backhaul system, because…

Cisco Live Orlando 2018 is less than one month away and it’s your opportunity to sharpen your skills while you learn from the best on how to run your world-class network. This year’s Cisco Live in Orlando is shaping up to be the biggest and most content rich for service providers ever. Here is a qui…

Written by Bob Everson, Global Director, Mobility and 5G, Cisco Systems One of the biggest trends in the networking industry has been towards disaggregation – unbundling the components of the network into smaller, simpler components and virtualizing capability to reduce cost and increase agility. A…

Back in May this year at the ANGA.COM we announced the availability of our Infinite Broadband solution, introducing Remote PHY to the market as the leading Distributed Access Architecture (DAA). The Infinite Broadband solution now includes everything you need to make Remote PHY a reality: CCAP RPHY…

Technology Limitations: Today’s Cable Access Network Today, cable operators support a broad range of last-mile networks — fiber, PON, and Ethernet. They’d like to use their substantial network assets to introduce new offerings and expand their business models, however with the current cable network…

Digitization is critical for businesses everywhere – and the opportunity for service provides lies in their ability to enable it. This is why it requires a new approach to networking that is simpler, more efficient, and enables carriers to grow their business. See for yourself… Global IP traffic wi…

By Daniel Etman, Director of Product Management, Cable Access Business, Cisco “The wonderful thing about “standards” is that there are so many to choose from! So how do we in the “Cable industry” define a Standard? In short, we’d take the approach that a Standard is a set of published specific…

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…

We wrote about Full Duplex DOCSIS® technology a few weeks back prior to the SCTE event in Philadelphia. Along with Remote PHY, virtual CMTS, video security, and virtual video processing, it was one of the hottest topics in our booth. Why is it getting so much attention? Because cable visionaries ar…