A Lesson on Transmission Line Theory
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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OFDM and OFDMA
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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Let’s Use Our Coax Smarter
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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Please Stay Out of My House
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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Evolve or Die: Can DOCSIS 4.0 Compete with Fiber?
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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How Telecoms are Leveraging 5G to Attract Gamers
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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High Latency is ‘Killing’ You
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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FDX, More Options for Operators
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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What Can DOCSIS PNM Do For Me?
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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Demystifying OOB and R-PHY
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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