DOCSIS 3.1 Archives

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

18 12, 2015

Doubling Down on DOCSIS 3.1

Mia Colabrese2022-01-20T11:36:56-05:00December 18th, 2015|

Doubling Down on DOCSIS 3.1 DOCSIS 3.1 and PNM were hot topics at Cable Tec Expo in New Orleans and in most major publications and articles for 2015. Comcast is the largest driver of DOCSIS 3.1, but my recommendations are that whether you are a tier 1, tier 2 or even tier 3 cable operator DOCSIS 3.1 should be on your roadmap. Consumer behavior and technical innovations are leading factors behind this statement and I elaborate below. Consumer Behavior and the State of Internet Traffic Growth In May

22 10, 2015

DOCSIS 3.1, PNM – SCTE CABLE TECH EXPO REVIEW 2015

Mia Colabrese2021-08-17T08:11:20-04:00October 22nd, 2015|

DOCSIS 3.1, PNM - SCTE CABLE TECH EXPO REVIEW 2015 Episode 16 is hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm and Nimble This with guest John Downey of CISCO systems. Discussion Highlights today we have news, updates from the Cable Tec Expo last week in New Orleans. And we want to bring our listeners the highlights from the show. Topics today include DOCSIS 3.1, PNM and SCTE In the NEWS SCTE Cable Tec Expo is less than two months away in New Orleans Presentation using FBC DOCSIS 3.1 Proactive Network

5 10, 2015

CableLabs interop DOCSIS 3.1 Channel Bonding

Mia Colabrese2021-08-17T08:14:53-04:00October 5th, 2015|

CableLabs Interop, DOCSIS 3.1 Channel Bonding Episode 15 Hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm and Nimble This, with Guest John Downey. Today we have news, updates from the CableLabs interop in Colorado, Max transmit power with 8 upstream DOCSIS 3.1 channel bonding, more on T3 timeout, partial mode oh my, T1 timeouts, my recommendations on ad blocking and more. In the NEWS SCTE Cable Tec Expo is less than two months away in New Orleans Apple's fourth-generation Apple TV will be available in late October. Hackers have stolen personal

28 09, 2015

Hacked – Are You Sure You’re Secure?

Mia Colabrese2021-11-24T09:42:37-05:00September 28th, 2015|

Hacked - Are you sure you're secure? Security has the been a hot topic lately. As I’m writing this article I think about all of the recent events that we hear about impacting our daily lives such as: Hacks of OPM databases compromised 22.1 million people Experts warn 2015 could be 'Year of the Healthcare Hack - reuters.com' Cost of a Potential Blackout From Cybercrime: $1 Trillion - CNBC These headlines are really quite scary. I’m certain that some, possibly many of you have experienced security issues first hand.

9 09, 2015

BTR Tech Breakfast DOCSIS 3.1 Revisited

Mia Colabrese2015-09-09T11:30:00-04:00September 9th, 2015|

BTR Tech Breakfast Encore! DOCSIS 3.1 Revisited See Brady on the BTR panel Part of the SCTE Media Breakfast Program Date: Thursday, October 15 Time: 8:00-9:00 am Location: New Orleans Convention Center Room: 271-273 The new DOCSIS 3.1 spec will bring with it a host of advantages for the cable operator in both speed and bandwidth. However, DOCSIS 3.1 roll-outs will not be "plug and play" easy in all cases. This is a FREE event Join BTR and a panel of industry experts for the DOCSIS 3.1 command