Upstream Channel Bonding Archives

10 09, 2018

Optimizing the DOCSIS Upstream

Mia Colabrese2018-09-10T08:37:20-04:00September 10th, 2018|

Data-Over-Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) version 3.1 offers a host of exciting possibilities and realities for cable operators. I have covered many of these topics in previous articles but the one thing that cannot be overlooked is the basics. It doesn’t matter how great these new technologies are if you do not pay attention to the foundation. It’s not any different than a house. If your foundation isn’t solid who cares if you have the best theater system in it. It can crumble under foot if the foundation

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

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

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

31 07, 2014

DOCSIS 3.0 Upstream and Downstream Channel Bonding

Mia Colabrese2021-08-13T16:08:00-04:00July 31st, 2014|

DOCSIS 3.0 Upstream and Downstream Bonding have many advantages Hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm with guest John Downey of Cisco. DOCSIS 3.0 Upstream and Downstream Bonding have many Advantages. For example: DOCSIS Upstream and Downstream Pro's and Con's: DOCSIS Cable Modem service flows Partial service DOCSIS Downstream resilience Why Downstream goes bad - ingress, headend issues, household issues, off air ingress More frequencies / spectrum means more space for issues How Cable Modems chooses it's primary channel T3 timeouts Pre-equalization benefits Diplex filter uses Dynamic

28 07, 2014

DOCSIS Channel Bonding Episode 3

Mia Colabrese2021-08-17T09:36:58-04:00July 28th, 2014|

DOCSIS 3.0 Channel Bonding – Your Questions Answered Episode 3 Hosted by Brady Volpe of The Volpe Firm and Nimble This with Guest John Downey of Cisco. Brady and John will discuss the many advantages and disadvantages of DOCSIS 3.0 channel bonding. When everything is operating properly, we have great advantages for modem speed and operation at the expense of allocating more spectrum for more DOCSIS 3.0 channels. When things are not going well, we may not be aware or we may not have the expertise to troubleshoot the situation or even

30 06, 2014

DOCSIS 3.0 Channel Bonding – Episode 3

Mia Colabrese2021-08-17T10:54:31-04:00June 30th, 2014|

DOCSIS 3.0 Channel Bonding - Your Questions Answered Brady Volpe and John Downey will discuss the many advantages and disadvantages of DOCSIS 3.0 channel bonding. When everything is operating properly, we have great advantages for modem speed and operation at the expense of allocating more spectrum for more DOCSIS 3.0 channels. When things are not going well, we may not be aware or we may not have the expertise to troubleshoot the situation or even remedy the issues properly. DOCSIS 3.0 channel bonding - Upstream and Downstream bonding have

18 06, 2014

DOCSIS Channel Bonding – Your Questions Answered Friday June 20th

Mia Colabrese2021-08-17T10:58:02-04:00June 18th, 2014|

DOCSIS Channel Bonding - Your Questions Answered Presented by Brady Volpe of The Volpe Firm and Nimble This and with guest John Downey. DOCSIS Channel Bonding with a focus on Upstream (US), Downstream (DS), Partial mode, BW allocation, and SG sizing. About John - John has over 20 years in the data/telecommunications/networking industry with a 4 year BS in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University. He has been working for Cisco the last 13 years as a Broadband Network Engineer presently with the Cable and Access Business Unit (CABU).

10 08, 2012

Brady Volpe – Panelist for CED Webinar

Mia Colabrese2020-04-02T09:58:15-04:00August 10th, 2012|

Upstream Challenge * Register Here Wednesday, August 15, 2012 • 11:00 a.m. ET; 8:00 a.m. PT • Duration: 1 Hour The CED is presenting an Educational Webinar on the ever increasing traffic on the upstream. Brady Volpe, as an impartial industry expert, will be discussing the impact of advanced DOCSIS and testing of next generation test equipment in the upstream. He will be sharing his view of the challenges the industry will be facing and the direction of next generation test equipment. "The biggest strain on cable bandwidth is

27 02, 2012

DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem Registration

Mia Colabrese2021-08-17T16:15:14-04:00February 27th, 2012|

This article will discuss the channel bonding process and ultimately the DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem registration process. In order to be able to understand this article, I will make many references to my prior article on Cable Modem Registration which focused on DOCSIS 1.x and 2.0 cable modems.