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1 08, 2017

DOCSIS CMTS Suggestions, Best Practices and Recommendations Part 3

Mia Colabrese2021-08-16T15:31:55-04:00August 1st, 2017|

DOCSIS CMTS Suggestions, Best Practices and Recommendations Part 3 Happy Friday Everyone. Today is July 21 and this is episode 30 of Get Your Tech On, our show on All Things DOCSIS. I'm Brady Volpe, Founder of The Volpe Firm and Nimble This. With us is, John Downey, the iron man of cable. John is also CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, welcome John. Today’s episode is a good one. This is part 3 on our DOCSIS CMTS Suggestions, Best Practices and Recommendations. DOCSIS CMTS Best So the

17 05, 2017

Remote PHY – What is All the Hype?

Mia Colabrese2021-08-16T16:02:18-04:00May 17th, 2017|

Remote PHY - What is All The Hype? Remote PHY - What's All The Hype? - Today is May 12 and this is episode 28 of Get You Tech On, our show on All Things DOCSIS. I'm Brady Volpe, Founder of The Volpe Firm and Nimble This. With us is the man who is world famous for being the Van Dam of Cable, John Downey, CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, welcome John thanks for coming back again. Today’s episode is a good one. This is Remote PHY -

18 04, 2017

DOCSIS CMTS Best Practices Recommendations Part 2

Mia Colabrese2021-08-16T16:13:00-04:00April 18th, 2017|

DOCSIS CMTS Best Practices and Recommendations Part 2 Episode 27 DOCSIS CMTS Best Practices Recommendations - Today is April 14 and this is episode 27 of Get You Tech On, our show on All Things DOCSIS. I'm Brady Volpe, Founder of The Volpe Firm and Nimble This. With us is the a man who is world famous for carrying two 10ks up an Ecuadorian mountain side, John Downey, CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, welcome John thanks for coming back again. Today’s episode is a good one. This is

15 03, 2017

Future Field Operations Technologies Cable

Mia Colabrese2021-08-16T17:11:07-04:00March 15th, 2017|

Future Field Operations Technologies Cable What’s Coming in Field and Operations Technology with Comcast and Cisco Episode 26 of our show on All Things DOCSIS. Hosted by Brady Volpe, Founder of The Volpe Firm and Nimble This. Today we have a fantastic episode for you on Future Field Operations Technologies but first let me introduce our panelists for todays show: With us we have the John Downey, CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems. Larry Wolcott, Comcast Fellow in Operations Technology. Finally, a man who needs little introduction, the esteemed

1 02, 2017

DOCSIS CMTS Suggestions, Best Practices and Recommendations

Mia Colabrese2021-08-16T17:18:15-04:00February 1st, 2017|

DOCSIS CMTS Suggestions, Best Practices and Recommendations Episode 25 Today is Friday January 27th and this is episode 25 of Get You Tech On - the cable industry’s #1 DOCSIS podcast. I'm Brady Volpe, Founder of The Volpe Firm and Nimble This. With us is the a man who is world famous in certain parts of the country, John Downey, CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, welcome John thanks for coming back again. Today’s episode is a good one. I’ve accumulated a backlog of questions on DOCSIS CMTS optimization we

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

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

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