Cable Operators

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…

ANGA COM has a recurring slogan, “Where Broadband Meets Content,” and this continues to have huge relevance for our presence at this annual trade fair in Germany. Cisco is a regular visitor to ANGA COM precisely because it is where network operators, content providers and their suppliers converge to…

Global IP traffic will increase nearly three-fold over the next 5 years. This means that the need for bandwidth is already growing beyond current capabilities. Why? Because operators have only a limited amount of spectrum within coax or fiber, and some of that spectrum is consumed by legacy and inef…

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…

By Christopher Kelley, Lead Architect, Solution Services, Data & Analytics Group Next week is the penultimate tech-fest of the year, in cable and broadband circles — the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers’ annual Cable-Tec Expo, happening in New Orleans. One topic we expect to b…

Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing Carriers are continually challenged to deliver on the customer experience. One of the benefits of Cisco’s cBR-8 Evolved CCAP is the built-in telemetry, programmability, and DOCSIS 3.1 support of the platform. This makes it ideal for gigabi…