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Why Most People Are Bad at Metrics and How You Can Be Less Bad

By Matt Carothers – In the world of cybersecurity, what would happen if the CEO ordered the security team to reduce the number of attacks it detected?

Securing the Subscriber — Going Beyond the Gateway

By Steve Goeringer – Why do we even need to worry about broadband security? There are a lot of very good answers to that question. We could say because it’s the right thing to do.

Meeting the Needs of Intelligent Communities Requires Smart, New Approaches

By Douglas Guthrie – With a growing universe of IoT applications and solutions, it can be challenging to determine what product or solution is right.

Using Passive Radar in Cable Operations

By Tom Williams — Active radar is a well known method to locate objects in the air and is based on sending a probing signal out and receiving reflections to determine distances and bearings to objects such as ships, aircraft, or UFOs. In military applications there is an undesirable side effect of a radar transmitter revealing itself to an enemy.

Reliability: On the Path to 10G

By Alberto Campos — Historically in cable, network reliability did not require much attention. Early on, when our industry focus was video delivery, we promoted the amount and diversity of content, and ensured that technology kept up with the increasing video resolutions.

10G on HFC — New Speeds for the Next Decade and Beyond

By Tom Cloonan — This is no time to relax! Something big is happening! This is a new decade! It’s the 2020s!” he exclaimed. “Everything in the DOCSIS/HFC network is about to change.

Enabling 10G Networks Using Flexible MAC Architecture

By Colin Howlett — As with most technologies, DOCSIS has gone through bundling and unbundling phases over the last decade in the bundling of separate edge-QAM modulator and DOCSIS CMTS in an integrated centralized CCAP, then unbundling again with remote PHY using CCAP cores and distributed remote PHY devices (RPDs).

Enabling Low Latency DOCSIS to Improve Latency and Bandwidth Utilization

By Robert Ferreira and Barak Hermesh — Over the last three decades, residential broadband technology has been advancing at a fast pace, from dial-up connections to gigabit services. The technology advanced in several vectors including manageability, reliability, security and privacy.

10G Technology Network Virtualization

By Asaf Matatyaou — Cloud-native virtualization supports management, control and data plane processing of high performance and mission-critical broadband services. However, it’s important to state that hardware is still required for physical layer processing, such as RF.

2019 Cable-Tec Expo Recap

By Ron Hranac — During the week of September 30th, industry technologists made their way to the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center for 2019’s SCTE·ISBE Cable-Tec Expo. Known for Cajun and Creole cuisines — there are differences — and great music.