DOCSIS 3.1 Archives

14 12, 2016

DOCSIS 3.1 Downstream and Upstream

Mia Colabrese2021-08-16T18:43:42-04:00December 14th, 2016|

DOCSIS 3.1 Downstream and Upstream Testing and Throughput Episode 24 Hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm, this video / podcast has a focus on the DOCSIS 3.1 downstream and upstream with a practical review of the latest advancements in DOCSIS 3.1 and practical applications in production systems. Guests include John Downey, CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, Jeff Riddel, Solutions Architect at Cisco Systems and Jason Miller Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco Systems. Hello Everyone. Today is November 17th and this is episode 24 of our shows on

12 09, 2016

Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM) with Larry Wolcott, Leader at Comcast’s Next Gen Technology Group

Mia Colabrese2021-08-16T19:52:13-04:00September 12th, 2016|

Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM) with Larry Wolcott, Leader at Comcast’s Next Gen Operations Technology Group Episode 23 Hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm, this podcast will focus on Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM) and the next generation in technology in 2016 and a peak of what is to come in 2017. Guest John Downey, CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems. Special Guest Larry Wolcott, Leader at Comcast’s Next Gen Operations Technology Group. Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM) Transcription So in our show today we going to have a lot of discussions around proactive

2 09, 2016

How DOCSIS Revolutionized the Cable Industry

Mia Colabrese2024-11-21T13:32:09-05:00September 2nd, 2016|

How DOCSIS Revolutionized the Cable Industry The cable industry is constantly facing competitive threats from companies like Google and Verizon who up the data speed game with fiber optic cable. They compete by offering higher and higher data speeds at lower and lower prices. But before we get into that, let’s look back at the 20 years of DOCSIS history and how DOCSIS has revolutionized the cable industry. Google Fiber Expansion (Source: Google.com) 20 Years Ago - The Internet Emerges The year was 1996. Broadband Library was celebrating

8 08, 2016

Top Reasons Cable Modems are not Getting Expected Speed and CMTS Monitoring

Mia Colabrese2021-08-16T20:05:30-04:00August 8th, 2016|

Cable Modems not Getting Speed - Top Reasons Cable Modems are not Getting Expected Speed and CMTS Monitoring Episode 22 Hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm, Nimble This and Guest John Downey, CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems. Today’s show we will cover cable modems not getting speed and monitoring your CMTS for proper Cable Modem State and Service Flow Operation. At the bottom John has supplied us with his presentation if you would like to listen along with viewing the slides. There were some technically issues

27 07, 2016

DOCSIS 3.1 In Your Plant Now

Mia Colabrese2016-07-27T11:00:12-04:00July 27th, 2016|

DOCSIS 3.1 In Your Plant Now In last month's article we focused on demystifying OFDM in DOCSIS 3.1. If you did not read the article please do, because we are going to now build on what we learned last time in the Broadband Library DOCSIS Online article titled “OFDM, completely new in DOCSIS 3.1”. You can find it in the archives with this link: bit.ly/OFDM3 - Also, for those not familair with bit.ly, its just a URL shortening service. Just click on the link or type it into

26 05, 2016

DOCSIS 3.1 Clearing Up Misconceptions

Mia Colabrese2021-08-16T20:10:13-04:00May 26th, 2016|

DOCSIS 3.1 Clearing Up Misconceptions with DOCSIS 3.1 Spectrum Allocation Episode 21 Hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm and Nimble This, with guest John Downey, CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems. Today’s show we will cover DOCSIS 3.1 spectrum allocation, applications and deployment in existing cable plants. No changes in the existing plants are necessary! What Cable Operators need to know. In addition, ANGACOM presentation preview by both John Downey and Brady Volpe who will be presenting at ANGACOM this year. Find out what they will be covering.

20 04, 2016

RF Measurements in the Cable Plant

Mia Colabrese2021-08-16T20:15:37-04:00April 20th, 2016|

RF Measurements in the Cable Plant - Learn more about RF Episode 20 Hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm and Nimble This. Guest John Downey, CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems and special guest, Ron Hranac Technical Leader at Cisco Systems. Today’s show we will cover a number of topics including RF measurements and fundamentals. The discussion starts with basic building blocks of the sine wave and evolves to how QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) signals are comprised of sine waves with varying amplitude and phase shifts, which means even though we call

4 03, 2016

OFDM, Completely New in DOCSIS 3.1

Mia Colabrese2023-09-06T19:41:07-04:00March 4th, 2016|

OFDM, Completely New in DOCSIS 3.1 CableLabs has just issued the first DOCSIS 3.1 certifications to five cable modem vendors. These vendors were Askey, Castlenet, Netgear, Technicolor and Ubee Interactive. Cable operators are implementing DOCSIS 3.1 trials and very soon. production systems. Frequently I receive questions about DOCSIS 3.1 such as “is it backwards compatible with DOCSIS 2.0 and 3.0 modems?”, “what are the channel bandwidths?”, “ ”, and many more. OFDM It Always Begins at the Physical Layer As with my original tutorials on DOCSIS, we start

22 02, 2016

Operator Perspective of Technology Advancements in Cable

Mia Colabrese2021-08-16T20:20:25-04:00February 22nd, 2016|

Operator Perspective of Technology Advancements in Cable and other interesting facts Episode 19 Hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm and Nimble This Guest John Downey, CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems and special guest, Jeff Finkelstein Executive Director of Network Strategy at Cox Communication. Today’s show we will cover a number of topics including the CableLabs’s Winter conference, NCTC’s Winter Educational conference, SCTE’s Chapter PNM training and more... But first, let’s cover some items happening in the news: CableLabs has announced “A newly unveiled project at CableLabs

18 01, 2016

May the Force be with Operational Challenges, Industry Trends, DOCSIS 3.1 and Star Wars

Mia Colabrese2021-08-16T20:24:54-04:00January 18th, 2016|

May the Force be with Operational Challenges, Industry Trends, DOCSIS 3.1 and Star Wars Episode 18 Hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm and Nimble This. Guest John Downey, CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems. Today we are going to focus on your questions and provide our answers. If we don’t have answers we promise to make up answers so convincingly true that you will never know the difference. Just kidding. DOCSIS 3.1 operational challenges. In the NEWS According to Cablelabs, The certification of five vendors marks the largest