Full Duplex

In this third part of my ‘cable story’ blog, we’ll get into how to better monetize the pipe. It’s not a big secret that the video business is being commoditized. Actually, only a third of the serviceable cable homes and businesses in the U.S. are currently paying subscribers for cable video services…

By John Chapman, Cisco Fellow, CTO, Cable Access, Cisco For the first time in the United States, we’ll be hosting our Full Duplex (FDX) DOCSIS proof of concept with Intel at the CableLabs Summer Conference this week. We unveiled the demo this past May at ANGA.COM FDX: Groundbreaking Technology So wh…

In just a few weeks, we’ll be at the 2017 CableLabs Summer Conference in Keystone, Colorado to demonstrate DOCSIS FDX. The agenda for this year’s conference has some fantastic keynote speakers and sessions featuring the latest technical developments in the industry. To find out more, visit the Cable…

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…

Written by John Holobinko, Director Access Strategy, Cable Access Business Unit Traditional cable access systems can only transmit data in one direction across any part of the spectrum.  Compared to PONs, a cable access network is severely limited in the maximum symmetrical data speed it can support…

We wrote about Full Duplex DOCSIS® technology a few weeks back prior to the SCTE event in Philadelphia. Along with Remote PHY, virtual CMTS, video security, and virtual video processing, it was one of the hottest topics in our booth. Why is it getting so much attention? Because cable visionaries ar…