By Dave Burns – The days of designing, building, and operating service provider networks in silos has finally sunset. Make way for converged IP networks where the “network” is truly an end-to-end solution integrated and automated for networking, security, and compute
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By Mu Xu, Alberto Campos, and Zhensheng Jia – In this article, the trends of energy usage in ICT and optical.
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By Dave Wachob – Another possible alternative is via telco twisted pair, given it already serves most if not all the rural areas. Advances in DSL over the last 20+ years have enabled respectable data rates from 25 Mbps to 100 Mbps.
Read MoreBy John Downey – Surgically placing RPDs at MDUs could be a quick fix and a way to “get our feet wet.” A compact 1 RU shelf with 3×6 modularity could provide three SGs for multiple risers in a building with easy powering and rack and stack capability. CPE would be placed where needed and older CPE would still work fine.
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By Matthew Olfert – Once cable modems start utilizing OFDMA, new issues will emerge. Since OFDMA requires the latest cable modems, this new technology creates a divide between OFDMA-enabled cable modems and older cable modems.
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By Robin Fenton – Among the most unique aspects of SCTE’s CORTEX system are its VirtuLearn™ trainings. This interactive format incorporates a variety of learning approaches in one flexible module.
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Dr. Jennifer Andreoli-Fang – For cable operators, mobile is the next frontier. It opens up a whole new market, that transcends traditional franchise boundaries — and with it, new sets of opportunities.
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By Stuart Kurkowski and Joel Derrico – In this article we discuss this end-to-end system at a high-level, identifying technologies and standards that can get us to this exciting new architecture for video interoperability.
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By Timothy Cooke and Jason Charette – When planning a new power supply for a single bay, or many bays, there are several key areas that should be considered.
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By Bill O’Donnell – Note in the chart that bandwidth increases will result in substantial attenuation increases requiring operators to change the design of their plant.
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