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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…

We are releasing a new product for our Cisco Infinite Broadband solution set, the GS7000 iNode, a No-Touch SmartNode.  Based on the industry-leading GS7000 Optical Node, the new SmartNode delivers an innovative approach that enables unprecedented operational savings for multiple service operators (M…

Written by Tim Brophy, Product Manager Cable Access Business Unit In recent blogs, we focused on fiber deep architectures and changes in topology. The implication one might draw is that this “network of the future” is the one and only thing operators should pursue moving forward and that…

Written by Tim Brophy, Product Manager Cable Access Business Unit In a recent blog, we discussed Fiber Deep (FD) architectures and their place in the end-to-end network. We emphasized there that the physical topology is geared toward balancing the number of subscribers per service group, and that th…

  Written by Tim Brophy, Product Manager Cable Access Business Unit More and more these days, service providers in the access market are talking about the evolution of their plants to a Fiber Deep (FD) Architecture. While the trend toward driving fiber into the plant and reducing RF amplifier c…

By Mike McKeown – Director of Business Development for Service Provider Video at Cisco, EMEAR It may be a month of bank holidays in Europe, but there’s no standing still for the video industry in May. We’re proud to say that it started with an announcement from Synergy Research (at the end of…