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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

14 12, 2015

Operational Challenges – DOCSIS CMTS Challenges to Operators

Mia Colabrese2021-08-17T08:04:36-04:00December 14th, 2015|

Operational Challenges in Cable - CMTS Challenges to Operators Episode 17 Hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm and Nimble This. Guest John Downey and Steve William TWC Director, Access Network Planning, Design & Operations. Steve is also a huge supporter of the SCTE, having served as on a number of SCTE chapter and National board positions and is currently serving on our SCTE Board of Directors. Hello Steve and thanks so much for your support of the SCTE and to our industry. We will also cover operational challenges

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

17 08, 2015

WPA exploits as well as WiFi security flaws

Mia Colabrese2021-08-17T08:21:42-04:00August 17th, 2015|

WPA exploits, WiFi security flaws and WEP Hacking Episode 14 Hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm with guest John Downey. Today we have news, updates from the Proactive Network Maintenance meeting at CableLabs F2F in Colorado last week, SCTE Expo is less than two months away and your questions, our answers. In the NEWS SCTE Cable Tec Expo is less than two months away in New Orleans Brady's workshop is on PNM Operational Practices - making PNM successful in your cable system John's paper is it on DOCSIS

29 06, 2015

ANGACOM, DOCSIS 3.1, PNM, Wifi and Next Generation TV review

Mia Colabrese2021-08-17T08:46:11-04:00June 29th, 2015|

Next Generation TV, ANGACOM, DOCSIS 3.1, PNM and review Episode 13 Hosted by Brady Volpe was joined by John Downey discussing Next Generation TV, smart TV, OFDM, WiFi issues in the home and how they impact the cable operator, operational changes requires to be proactive and not reactive in the cable plant, DOCSIS 3.1 & other cable topics from plus many other topics including PNM (Proactive Network Maintenance) and answering several questions from followers. ANGACOM was really quite big this year with over 20k attendees, consisting of 4k vendors and 17k operator attendees

11 05, 2015

INTX The Internet & Television Expo Review – Episode 12

Mia Colabrese2021-08-17T08:49:48-04:00May 11th, 2015|

INTX The Internet & Television Expo Review Episode 12 hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm and Nimble This with guest John Downey with discussion highlights on INTX The Internet and Television Expo plus many other topics including PNM (Proactive Network Maintenance), DOCSIS 3.1 and answering several questions from followers. We do our best to bring our audience great technical content every month. You can watch us live on the air or catch our recorded episodes on YouTube. Or download our audio only version with your favorite podcatcher. If

13 04, 2015

DOCSIS Internet Security – internet security and recommended best practices Episode 11

Mia Colabrese2021-08-17T09:01:26-04:00April 13th, 2015|

DOCSIS Internet Security Episode 11 Brady Volpe was joined by John Downey, Dan Hegglin and Brian Wilson discussing the challenges cable operators face with DOCSIS internet security and recommended best practices they can follow to secure their networks from DDoS, DoS, DNS, High Value Targets and many more. More about Dan Hegglin of Cisco and Brain Wilson of Alcatel-Lucent Brian has been in the IT Security & Cable industry for just at 20 years. He started his career in the US Army in the Signal Corps and has worked since with many

9 03, 2015

Downstream Full Band Capture and CableLabs Winter Conferance- Episode 10

Mia Colabrese2021-08-17T09:13:56-04:00March 9th, 2015|

Brady and John cover the CableLabs Winter Conference, the press release from Broadcom and upstream expansion to 85 MHz and beyond.If you have not heard about Broadcom's press release on upstream analysis capability in the cable modem you will defiantly want to check out this video.