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October 18, 2018

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Celebrating Ron Hranac’s 46 Years in the Cable Industry!

As a cable veteran myself, I’m proud to write this blog congratulating Ron Hranac on 46 years of contributions to the cable industry. If you’re in cable, I’m betting you know Ron and his passion and love of the business. From humble beginnings of practically falling into the industry as a part-time…

October 17, 2018

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Cisco and Partners Present a Clock Synchronization for Small Cell DOCSIS Backhaul

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…

Competing against 10G PON: Why 1 Gbps Won’t Be Enough

For the last three years, one key focus of cable operators has been to deploy 1 Gbps service offers to as much of their footprint as possible, as a means to dissuade subscribers from moving to the competition. This has been an extremely effective strategy, as evidenced by cable’s increasing market s…

October 19, 2017

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Bringing the Benefits of Cloud Native to Network Function Virtualization

Written by Alon Bernstein, Distinguished Engineer, Cable Access Business Unit Web-scale giants, like Amazon, Google and Facebook, design their infrastructure, applications and deployments to be cloud native because this is the ideal environment for supporting their core applications, including sear…

October 18, 2017

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Cisco Showing Industry Interoperability with Remote PHY at 2017 SCTE in Denver

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…

October 13, 2017

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The Advantage of Remote PHY

An Analysis of Remote PHY vs Analogue Deep Fiber Total Cost of Ownership In a recently published white paper, The TCO Advantage of Remote PHY, we compare the CAPEX and OPEX of a Remote PHY deployment with an Integrated CCAP/HFC deployment. A next-generation Distributed Access Architecture (DAA), Rem…

October 12, 2017

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Join us for the Remote PHY Seminar at the 2017 SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo

Remote PHY, the industry’s best bet technology for boosting performance, increasing capacity, reducing costs, and simplifying network operations, is the subject of a must-see seminar at this year’s SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo. Featuring Cisco Fellow and Cable CTO John Chapman, who played a central role…

September 26, 2017

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Transforming Experiences: See You in October at 2017 SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo

Fall has arrived, which means the 2017 SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo in Denver, Colorado is just around the corner. This year’s program is packed full of some great learning opportunities and we are pleased to have so many Cisco folks involved this year – presenting, leading workshops and moderating pane…

October 13, 2014

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Cox Communications and Cisco Jointly Present on Innovations in Network Monetization and Optimization

Project Illustrates How Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Work in Concert to Enhance How Networks are Designed, Operated, and Monetized Last week, I blogged about some joint research with Cox Communications related to our Evolved Services Platform (ESP) and NF…