Pasi Järvenpää – The insatiable demand for bandwidth, the growing need for reliability, competitive dynamics, and the need to expand their footprint are driving operators to massively invest in their network infrastructures and operations.
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By Mark Poletti – We are seeing an industry trend of virtualization and cloudification of 5G core and radio access network (RAN) functions onto a shared compute platform architecture. This is all happening while mobile operators are transitioning from 4G to 5G.
Read MoreBy Dr. Curtis Knittle – Equally important will be defining coherent solutions in a point-to-multipoint topology, known as coherent passive optical networking (CPON), in which case the active component is replaced with a completely passive optical splitter/combiner.
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By Matt Polka – The just-enacted Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), with $65B in funding for broadband, holds out the promise of closing the availability and adoption gaps. But that will only occur if the money is spent wisely. What will the federal and state agencies need to do to make this happen?
Read MoreBy Dr. Mario Di Dio – In today’s digital world, our mobile devices have become a natural extension of our bodies. No matter where we are, whether in the car, on vacation, at work, out running errands or at home on the couch, we expect continuous connectivity — to everything, everywhere, all the time.
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By Timothy Cooke – Hybrid cable can be broadly defined as two (or more) different types of cable contained within the same sheath. Perhaps most common is a combination of optical fibers along with copper power cable.
Read MoreBy Mike Venter and Monica Hue – Unlike backhaul networks that often employ amplifiers and other active devices, 5G fronthaul DWDM networks are designed to be less complex.
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By Rick Sullivan – The Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) promises to bring true broadband connectivity to America’s wide-open places and small “off the beaten path” spots.
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By Jason Rupe – The proactive network maintenance (PNM) community has a culture of being meta-proactive by quickly improving itself. Take for example how the PNM working group (PNM-WG) at CableLabs and SCTE’s Network Operations Subcommittee Working Group 7 (NOS WG7).
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By Doug Jones – Over the years there have been many different splits which recently have been standardized by the DOCSIS specifications as sub-split, mid-split and high-split. The accompanying table translates each split to the available broadband capacity using DOCSIS 3.1.
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