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Mobile Xhaul Over DOCSIS Delivers Faster Time to Market at a Lower Cost Than Building a New Fiber Plant
Every time a new smartphone comes on the market, I ask myself, should I buy it or not? It has cool new features, but my current model does everything I need. Do I really want to spend more money and replace my existing hardware? But, I really like the cool new features. It’s a dilemma. What if the…
5G, 10G, Whatever It Takes
The headline refers, of course, to a favorite scene from “Mr. Mom,” when Michael Keaton’s character, Jack, grabs a chainsaw (which is running) and dons safety glasses as his wife’s boss, Ron, shows up to pick her up for work. Jack turns the chainsaw off, then relays his plan to put on an addition, i…
Remote PHY for Infrastructure Automation: Why It Matters and Where It’s Headed
Occasionally, when in the middle of a vast and highly complex architectural transition, it makes sense to pull up and survey the situation. This is one of those times. As the trigger, the gathering of like-minded IP technologists present at this week’s ANGA conference, in Cologne; as the situation,…
A DOCSIS 3.1 Update: Musings From a Guy Who’s Been DOCSIS Since Before There Was Such a Thing
Greetings, colleagues, and especially those of you headed to the ANGA conference in Cologne next week. I’m expecting there will be considerable discussion about current events in broadband, and as such thought I’d impart my latest thinking on one of my favorite topics – the Data Over Cable Service I…
So You’re Building Out Your Mobile Footprint …
As more and more cable service providers forge MVNO partnerships with mobile carriers, or build their own MNO-styled networks, the time has come to start solving mobile backhaul problems — and especially the backhaul latencies required by LTE networks — by expanding the DOCSIS specificat…