By Kraig Neese – The benefits of the new test racks continue to grow, making troubleshooting and maintaining an R-PHY environment more efficient. There is plenty more to learn as we grow our ability to monitor and troubleshoot these new DAA networks. We continue to push more functions to the remote edges of our networks and these new methods will need to adapt as we grow.
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By Jeff Finkelstein – The challenge is that we cannot see the future, but we can be prepared for the events we create as we deploy new technologies.
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By Jeff Finkelstein – I visualize two distinct use cases for virtualization in the DOCSIS network. The first is the typical one we think of where the data, control, and management planes are run as a virtual entity in a cloud.
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By Charles Allred – These small details underscore the importance of open communication between all our engineering and operational teams. No individual holds all the keys or knows the secrets of every dark corner of our network.
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By Kinney Bacon – Cable operators need to start thinking about how they will distribute the 10 Gbps signal through the home network once 10 Gbps technology is available and offered as a service.
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By Kraig Neese – So you decided to push the launch button on remote PHY and like all things new and technical, you found a few things you might not have expected. From the 30,000 foot view, remote PHY does not look all that difficult.
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By Alan Skinner and Ernest Fabre — If a distributed access architecture (DAA) is on your technology roadmap, you’ve no doubt been contemplating the daunting task of converging data and video services.
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By Robert Kuse and David Ririe — Fiber is an important part of every service provider network. It is used pervasively in the service provider backbone network. It is also an important and rapidly growing part of the service provider access network.
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By Matthew Hayes and David Ririe — Cox first began residential PON based services in 2014. At that time we were looking for more than simply billboard speeds. We were looking to defend our backyard from new entrants.
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By Charles Allred and David Ririe — While we were successful with our initial orchestration system, there are still areas left to expand upon. Scalability is a bit of an unknown, but we will work through that as our remote PHY deployments grow. There is also substantial integration work to be done to blend the system into our existing tools. Once complete, its functions should be invisible to most of our support teams.
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