Cable Access SDN Orchestration

Happy Friday Everyone.  Today is February 16th and this is episode 36 of Get Your Tech On, our show on All Things DOCSIS.  I’m Brady Volpe, Founder of The Volpe Firm and Nimble This a technology fan in cable.   With us is, John Downey, “the prognosticator”.   John is also CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, welcome John.   And Tal Laufer a RavenClaw and also Director, Product Manager At ARRIS.

In the News

  1. CableLabs Mac-PHY standard came out recently.  We recently did a  hangout out on R-PHY and will be doing one on MAC-PHY in April but until then what are some quick thoughts on the topic?
  2. SpaceX to provide broadband services using satellites in the United States and worldwide.  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-broadband-fcc/spacex-gets-u-s-regulator-to-back-satellite-internet-plan-idUSKCN1FY2H4

Today’s topic is Cable Access SDN orchestration

Defined: Software-defined networking (SDN) orchestration (or SDN orchestration) is the ability to program automated behaviors in a network to coordinate the required networking hardware and software elements to support applications and services

Questions:

  1. So Tal has a lot of experience with Cable Access SDN Orchestration. What would you say does SDN means to the average cable operator?
  2. How does it impact most Cable Operators?
  3. We are in cable so let’s call it something short – CAO or CA-SDN or?
  4. What future do you see for CA-SDN?

End Podcast

John, and Tal thank you for your time today. This was a great episode.  Our next Episode will be on All Things Spectrum Analysis with Larry Wolcott of Comcast.  

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