By Brady Volpe – The traditional legacy analog CMTS is not sustainable. In speaking with Cisco and Harmonic about vCMTS, both agree that the total cost of ownership (TCO) for a vCMTS is roughly 50%-65% of legacy “big iron” CMTSs. The cost savings come in multiple forms.
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By Brady Volpe — For these two reasons alone, OFDMA is a great technology that we get with DOCSIS 3.1 to start using in the upstream to meet the traffic demands of our subscribers.
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By Brady Volpe – Machine learning and PNM have promised to make the use of PNM data super easy. Anyone who has used PNM has likely experienced data overload. Looking through lots of full band capture (FBC) plots or tons of receive modulation error ratio (RxMER).
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By Brady Volpe — Understanding these basics will help you advance in your career. More importantly, understanding the root cause of any impairment, whether it is micro-reflections or getting wet.
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By Brady S. Volpe — OFDM and OFDMA are both advantageous to use over the traditional single carrier QAM (SC-QAM) which have been the staple of all previous versions of DOCSIS until DOCSIS 3.1. This is because SC-QAM worked for our needs.
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By Brady S. Volpe — In the U.S. there are over 72 million businesses and households using broadband services.[1] Since COVID-19 has led to more social distancing and also an increase in working from home, our broadband services are even more important. I’m a big fan of proactive network maintenance (PNM).
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By Brady S. Volpe — Staying out of subscriber’s homes while adding new service and supporting service calls is not a trivial task. This article discusses possible solutions to tackling the challenges during Covid.
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By Brady S. Volpe — The question we face is will DOCSIS 4.0 and future versions of DOCSIS enable us to keep up with the telecom industry’s focus on fiber deep deployment?
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By Brady S. Volpe — As a cable operator, if you are the only provider in town, you’re safe for now — maybe. If you have an incumbent fiber provider, you are at tremendous risk of losing subscribers over latency.
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By Brady S. Volpe — Gaming is a billion-dollar industry with billions of players, and they use broadband to get there. I’ve spent a lot of time discussing the importance of low latency DOCSIS over the last couple of years on my podcast and YouTube channel.
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