Getting Smart with AI and PNM: The Operator’s New Edge Let’s not sugarcoat it—HFC networks, for all their engineered resilience, are still full of difficult-to-uncover problems. Under the surface, impairments like amplitude variation, ingress, and corrosion sneak in or often explode in. These impairments negatively impact throughput and cause avoidable truck rolls. Lately, though, there’s a promising path forward: integrating artificial intelligence (AI) with proactive network maintenance (PNM). I’m discussing AI a lot these days in the context of DOCSIS because AI’s advancement is remarkable—and its ability