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2 09, 2016

How DOCSIS Revolutionized the Cable Industry

Mia Colabrese2016-09-02T08:00:21-04:00September 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

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

20 11, 2013

PNM – Proactive Network Maintenance – SCTE EXPO 2013 – Fresh Tech

Mia Colabrese2020-04-02T12:44:14-04:00November 20th, 2013|

PNM - Proactive Network Maintenance CableLabs Booth - SCTE EXPO 2013 - Fresh Tech The PNM demonstration in the CableLabs booth was very popular at this years SCTE EXPO as was Armstrong and Comcast. Both very impressive. Comcast's demonstration of their PNM Scout Flux solution by the SCTE Pavilion was most impressive. It won the BTR 4.5 diamond award in 2012, but it is not for sale. Now Comcast has been working on their solution for over five (5) years with a team of smart people working on

29 02, 2012

Impact of Impulse Noise on Adaptive Pre-Equalization

Mia Colabrese2021-11-24T09:26:04-05:00February 29th, 2012|

For those of you who have attended my seminars you are familiar with adaptive pre-equalization in cable modems (if not I'll explain it in detail momentarily). Also, if you have done any amount of RF plant troubleshooting you are certainly familiar with Impulse noise (again, I'll cover this too). But if you are like me, I never knew that the two topics were co-related.