cable access
The Cisco cBR-8 Evolved CCAP and Remote PHY (RPHY)
Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing CCAP Architecture: Remote PHY (RPHY) In the distributed CCAP architecture (DCA), the remote PHY (RPHY) component is what keeps DOCSIS relevant in the emerging world of digital fiber. It is of particular significance when a commercial digit…
Cisco and the Altice Group: Powering the First Available Subscription VoD service with 4K/Ultra HD Content
Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, Service Provider Product and Solutions Marketing Powered by the Cisco cBR-8 converged broadband router, the Altice Group’s new Zive subscription-based video-on-demand service will be launched in all markets. An industry leading cable offering, Zive features more than 5,000…
KRBO: Delivering One Gigabit per Second Connectivity with the Cisco cBR-8 Converged Broadband Router
Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, Service Provider Product and Solutions Marketing KBRO, the largest cable television provider in Taiwan, has announced that it will use the Cisco cBR-8 Converged Broadband Router to deliver one gigabit per second high speed internet connections to its customer base. Already…
Cisco cBR-8 Rises up to the DOCSIS 3.1 Challenge at SCTE (part 2)
Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing I am excited to continue the discussion that I started in my previous blog on SCTE Cal-Tec expo. We brought two cBR-8 routers and we used one to run live data through it. We used Ixia gear to generate video and data traffic. Hence we sho…
Cisco cBR-8 Rises up to the DOCSIS 3.1 Challenge
Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing What do we need to know about New Orleans? It offers great Jazz, and Bourbon Street provides rich insight into New Orleans’ past, but we can’t overlook that it has been home this year to SCTE Cable-Tec Expo. SCTE is the cable telecommunica…
South Korea’s SK Broadband Improving the User Experience with Cisco cBR-8
Written By Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing A year ago, SK Broadband announced the world’s first 10 Gbps Internet service at the 2014 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference. This innovative new service was 100 times faster than existing services, which routinely deliver download speeds o…
DOCSIS 3.1: Driving Cable to Software Defined Networking
Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing Optical transport has been transformed as integrated high-performance Digital Signal Processing has enabled vendors such as Cisco to squeeze more capacity at greater distances than ever before. Advanced modulation techniques and Forward E…
Cisco cBR-8: Re-imagining CCAP with SDN
Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing In an age of agile service creation with a virtualized IT infrastructure, the delivery of services by cable operators is undergoing a transformation. Two key technologies that are fueling this change are Software Defined Networking (SDN)…
The Top Five Things That Will Drive Gigabit Consumption
By Todd McCrum, Director of Product Management, Cisco Cable Access BU Back in the earliest days of television – before satellites began spraying an instant and national video footprint over the Earth – operators wondered whether it made sense to expand spectral capacity any further. At the time (ear…