By Brady Volpe – You can now perform rough estimates of the OFDM channel or feel free to download my Python estimator, which is based on the work done by Karthik Sundaresan in his SCTE Expo paper.
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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 — 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?
Read MoreBy Brady S. Volpe – CCAP and Cable Modems the New Rock Stars in DOCSIS 3.1 Test. We have always known that DOCSIS rocks but it is just so much cooler than we all thought. In the winter edition of Broadband Library, I talked about how DOCSIS® 3.1 is beating expectations and performing exceptionally well in production
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By Brady Volpe – Some operators are saying that the performance of DOCSIS 3.1 is proving to be better than they had expected. Those who are deploying DOCSIS 3.1 in production systems are happy to see that these modulations are not only working, but actually working in areas where they did not expect such high performance.
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