cBR-8

Managing a DAA Hub with Analog and Digital Nodes in a Single Context

The building blocks for a distributed access architecture (DAA) are shipping from Cisco. More than 60 customers in 25 countries spanning 4 continents have received key DAA components, such as Remote PHY nodes, Remote PHY shelves, cBR-8 digital cards and Smart PHY automation software. DAA holds much…

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…

Cisco Launches Infinite Broadband for Cable Access Networks

Here’s one of the big questions facing cable operators today – can their existing HFC infrastructure, built on a proprietary analog network, meet their evolving technical and business requirements? Once an integral component of the cable access architecture, the proprietary analog network is now the…

September 28, 2016

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If Video Monitoring & the CCAP Transition Are On Your Cable-Tec Expo Shopping List…

By Daniel Etman, Director of Product Management, Cable Access Business, Cisco We go into this year’s SCTE/ISBE Cable-Tec Expo with considerable momentum in the industrial transition to CCAP (or, the Converged Cable Access Platform) — and as trials and deployments get underway, we continue to b…

Harnessing Disruption at INTX – Cisco Leads with Video and Cable Access

Whether it’s your first or tenth time at the INTX show, it is still an exciting and happening place. This year 9,000 attendees gathered at the INTX 2016 to learn about the best products and solutions which exhibitors brought to this glamorous event. There were quite a few social media communications…

INTX 2016: Our “Giga Baby” Is a Year Old and Already Runs So Fast! 700 Mbps, Upstream

By Todd McCrum, Sr. Director, Strategy & Product Management, Cable Access BU It was at last year’s INTX, in Chicago, that we launched the cBR-8 (remember the “Giga-Baby”?) as a way to help our cable service provider customers affordably and quickly offer faster broadband speeds, with converged e…

Join Us at INTX 2016 to See How Cable and Video Go Hand in Hand

Not so long ago, the Internet and television were incompatible. Today, they’re practically interchangeable. Next month, May 16-18 the Internet and Television Expo (INTX) kicks off in Boston, MA where the worlds of media, entertainment and technology get linked together. Come and learn about the late…

Meeting the Demands of Bandwidth & Service Group Growth with CCAP

Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing In this video interview, Jorge Salinger, Comcast’s Vice President of Access Architecture, explains how DOCSIS 3.1 and the Cisco cBR-8 will enable Comcast to meet bandwidth demands and service group growth. With the cBR-8 platform, he…

February 29, 2016

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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…