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June 18, 2024
Will 10G be Enough for Everybody?
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | A hallmark of any technology industry, as well as the advanced-degree-laden engineers and other technologists who invigorate that industry with innovation, is a healthy obsession over what comes next. At any given time, a more-than-trivial percentage of research and development is being devoted to answering questions that are a [...]
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May 7, 2024
MSOs must Execute Next-Phase of HFC Evolution with Timing and Precision to Maintain Broadband Leadership
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | Whether the final destination is DOCSIS® 4.0 or optimizing DOCSIS 3.1 for all its worth, MSOs need to continue to evolve their networks to keep pace with subscriber demand and fend off competitors, including FTTH providers offering multigigabit symmetrical services. But MSOs can’t afford to focus on speed and [...]
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April 12, 2024
Survey Says: MSOs Enter 2024 Weighing Network Upgrade Options
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | The results of the 2024 Edition of ATX’s annual HFC evolution survey, conducted at the beginning of this year, indicate that some MSOs, faced with an unprecedented flurry of technology options, may be recalculating the tactics and timeline for upgrading their networks. That conclusion can be drawn from soon [...]
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March 28, 2024
Take the Finding Your Next-Gen Node Platform Quiz
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | If a move to DOCSIS 4.0 is potentially in your future — whether that’s tomorrow or in five years — there’s no better time than now to start mapping out a strategy for migrating the nodes in your HFC network to support 1.8GHz, DAA and third-party access technologies. The [...]
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March 20, 2024
How Areca Hybrid Supercapacitors Can Help Communications Providers Accelerate their Energy Efficiency Goals
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | Nearly all the world’s communications service providers have pledged to improve the energy efficiency of their businesses, setting goals and milestones and then publishing annual reports chronicling the progress they are making toward meeting those efforts. Comcast, for example, unveiled in March of 2023 that it had increased energy [...]
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February 8, 2024
Should DOCSIS 3.1E Impact Your Next HFC Amplifier Purchase?
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | Much attention in recent months has been focused on MSOs acquiring next-generation cable modems that support additional channel capacity in DOCSIS® 3.1 architectures, enabling cable operators to increase downstream capacity before moving to a full-blown DOCSIS 4.0, 1.8GHz-capable network. The DOCSIS 3.1 extension, which has been anointed with a [...]
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January 4, 2024
ATX’s 2024 Technology Predictions: Doubling Down on 2023
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | ‘Tis the season for prognostication. About this time every year, technology companies and pundits offer up their best estimates of how the trends and business dynamics shaping the industry will play out in the coming year. Almost always missing from this annual ritual is accountability. Like meteorologists who miss [...]
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December 11, 2023
Why it will Take More than Technology to Close the Digital Divide
By Dan Whalen, ATX CEO | I had the privilege of participating in the recently completed Broadband Equity Challenge, an interactive case competition among teams of university graduates focused on closing the Digital Divide and reducing digital disparity across demographic groups. While my role for the event’s finale was to help select a winning presentation, [...]
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November 1, 2023
Cable-Tec Expo 2023 Sends Powerful Message to Fiber Community
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | In case you haven’t noticed, telecommunication companies and other FTTH service providers have taken to talking about MSOs, in their advertising and at industry events, as if they are obsolete, dismissing cable plants as legacy or dated. It’s difficult to decipher if this eulogizing of HFC is simply a [...]
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October 9, 2023
SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2023 Preview: This is Not Your Average, Usual, Everyday Expo
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | Don’t let this blog’s title fool you. Cable-Tec Expo, every year, is always informative and always a great opportunity to take the pulse of the industry and latest technology innovations. But expectations are high that this year’s SCTE-hosted Cable-Tec Expo may have a little extra kick, generate a little [...]
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