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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By Brady S. Volpe — Proactive network maintenance (PNM) has been steadily growing in acceptance and popularity over the past several years with adoption amongst cable operators from Tier 1 such as Comcast all the way to the smallest Tier 4 operators.
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By Brady S. Volpe — Proactive network maintenance (PNM) has been steadily growing in acceptance and popularity over the past several years with adoption amongst cable operators from Tier 1 such as Comcast all the way to the smallest Tier 4 operators.
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By Brady S. Volpe – In this article we dive into Data-Over-Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) remote PHY (R-PHY) testing challenges and how these can be overcome using out-of-band (OOB) channel communications.
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By Brady S. Volpe — As an industry we are fortunate to have new technologies such as DOCSIS 3.1 to support the ever-increasing demand of subscriber traffic growth. This “back-to-basics” article covers some of the fundamentals DOCSIS experts should know.
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By Brady S. Volpe and Mike Collins — We have all heard the stories of how well DOCSIS 3.1 is working. Perhaps your system has been involved in one of these stories too. One thing is true, DOCSIS 3.1 is working really well.
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By Brady S. Volpe — What is FDX DOCSIS? FDX supports the potential to scale to symmetrical throughput, whether one uses R-PHY or R-MAC/PHY. So let’s explore how FDX DOCSIS works and the benefits it has to offer. FDX DOCSIS is an extension to the DOCSIS 3.1 specification.
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