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In my previous post, I talked about the ‘cable story’ and the steps service providers need to take, today, in order to leverage their competitive asset – the cable network — and to gain tactical and strategic business advantages. In this post, I will expand on one of these steps – namely, the…

As cable operators continue to look at facing the ever-increasing onslaught of data demand from subscribers, we must ask ourselves, “Is there a better way to do things?” We all have heard the unofficial definition of “insanity” as “doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result,…

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…

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…

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…

As the cable industry prepares to transition towards distributed access architectures utilizing the CableLabs Remote PHY standard, it’s starting to see the many benefits that RPHY can bring. One of those key benefits is around simplifying the network, which is the focus of this blog. Today there is…

Tasked with answering the question of “Why is a Remote PHY Architecture is better than a Remote MAC/PHY architecture” it would be prudent to articulate first what advantages Remote PHY has to offer over other proprietary solutions and let the readers draw their own conclusion. Let’s first call out i…

By Daniel Etman, Director of Product Management, Cable Access Business, Cisco “The wonderful thing about “standards” is that there are so many to choose from! So how do we in the “Cable industry” define a Standard? In short, we’d take the approach that a Standard is a set of published specific…

Written By Daniel Etman, Director Product Marketing CABU We often get asked what we mean by claiming that the Cisco cBR8 is designed from the ground up for DOCSIS 3.1 and beyond. In fact, there is a lot of confusion out there with regard to different hardware architectures in use by the various CCAP…