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23 07, 2018

UpStream levels for DOCSIS 3.0, DOCSIS 3.1

Mia Colabrese2021-08-16T09:49:26-04:00July 23rd, 2018|

UpStream levels for DOCSIS 3.0, DOCSIS 3.1, Attenuations at Higher Frequencies, especially 204 MHz, FDX and how RPDs come into play Happy Friday Everyone. Today is July 20th and this is episode 41 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, whose motto is - “Let’s Pump You Up”. John is also CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, welcome John. Today’s topic is Upstream levels for DOCSIS 3.0, DOCSIS

3 07, 2018

ANGACOM | FDX, R-PHY and Big Data

Mia Colabrese2021-08-16T09:56:37-04:00July 3rd, 2018|

ANGACOM - FDX, R-PHY and Big Data Happy Friday Everyone. Today is June 22th and this is episode 40 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, whose motto is - “Let’s Pump You Up”. John is also CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, welcome John. And Mia Colabrese who has spent her entire adult life in cable. Welcome Mia. Today’s topic is ANGACOM. Slide Show ANGACOM Highlights: DOCSIS

20 05, 2018

10 GiG Over Coax

Mia Colabrese2021-08-16T10:01:24-04:00May 20th, 2018|

10 GiG Over Coax Happy Friday Everyone. Today is May 18th and this is episode 39 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 American Van Damm of Cable”. John is also CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, welcome John. And Daniel Etman Owner and Innovator of Enrest in Belgium - although he would be wearing Orange if his Dutch team had made it to the World Cup.

17 05, 2018

MAC-PHY! When to MAC-PHY vs R-PHY

Mia Colabrese2021-08-16T10:06:37-04:00May 17th, 2018|

MAC-PHY! When to MAC-PHY vs R-PHY Happy Friday Everyone. Today is May 11th and this is episode 38 of Get Your Tech On, our show on All Things DOCSIS. I'm Brady Volpe, Founder of The Volpe Firm and Nimble This a technology fan in cable. With us is, John Downey, “the prognosticator”. John is also CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, welcome John. And Jeff Finkelstein Executive Director of Advanced Technology at Cox Communication. Today’s topic is MAC-PHY. CableLabs has had a spec on remote Mac-PHY since 2015

27 03, 2018

Spectrum Analysis Everywhere

Mia Colabrese2021-08-16T10:11:58-04:00March 27th, 2018|

Spectrum Analysis Everywhere Happy Friday Everyone. March 23th and this is episode 37 of Get Your Tech On, our show on All Things DOCSIS. I'm Brady Volpe, Founder of The Volpe Firm and Nimble This, a technology fan in cable. With us is, John Downey, “the man who built his new homes foundation with ubr8's and 10k’s instead of concrete blocks”. John is also CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, welcome John. Also with us is Larry Wolcott “the man who tamed the wild west of PNM” and

19 02, 2018

Cable Access SDN Orchestration

Mia Colabrese2021-08-16T10:15:44-04:00February 19th, 2018|

Cable Access SDN Orchestration Happy Friday Everyone. Today is February 16th and this is episode 36 of Get Your Tech On, our show on All Things DOCSIS. I'm Brady Volpe, Founder of The Volpe Firm and Nimble This a technology fan in cable. With us is, John Downey, “the prognosticator”. John is also CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, welcome John. And Tal Laufer a RavenClaw and also Director, Product Manager At ARRIS. In the News CableLabs Mac-PHY standard came out recently. We recently did a hangout out

22 01, 2018

R-PHY or Remote PHY – Doesn’t Matter How you Say It. The Hype is Real

Mia Colabrese2021-08-16T10:22:41-04:00January 22nd, 2018|

R-PHY or Remote PHY - Doesn't Matter How you Say It. The Hype is Real Happy Friday Everyone. Today is January 19th and this is episode 35 of Get Your Tech On, our show on All Things DOCSIS. I'm Brady Volpe, Founder of The Volpe Firm and Nimble This a Geek in cable. With us is, John Downey, “Punxsutawney Phil of cable”. John is also CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, welcome John. Asaf Matatyaou of Harmonics the man in cable who runs at the speed of light.

31 08, 2017

Virtual CMTS-CCAP

Mia Colabrese2020-04-02T09:29:04-04:00August 31st, 2017|

To Boldly Go Where Cable Has Not Gone Before – Virtual CMTS-CCAP By Brady Volpe - As published in Broadband Library Star Trek brought us ideas like cell phones, tablets, Bluetooth, MRIs and MP3s and more My name is not Morpheus and I’m not asking you to choose between a blue or red pill here, but let me start off by saying I started out as a hardware guy in the business. I know hardware, I like hardware but I have converted into being a software dude. My

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

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