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May 23, 2023
Why Hybrid Supercapacitors are the Safest Choice for Energy Storage

By Carla Brown, Product Marketing Manager | Unstoppable wildfires, toxic chemical leaks and chain-reaction fires that keep burning — threatening the safety of our surroundings and our well-being. Sounds surreal, like something straight out of a sci-fi movie, right? Unfortunately, these events are all too real and increasing with alarming frequency as more Lithium-based batteries [...]
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May 15, 2023
MSOs to FTTH Providers: “Ain’t So Bad”

By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | One of the many iconic scenes in the “Rocky” series of films is a battered and bloodied Sylvester Stallone defiantly taunting Mr. T with the grammatically challenged phrase featured in this blog’s title. It was Rocky’s way of letting his opponent know that he had his swagger back, [...]
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April 19, 2023
How the Cable Industry Can Help Make Every Day Earth Day

By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | April 22 is the one day each year much of the world’s attention is focused on the wellbeing of that world — our world. More than a billion people this year are expected to observe Earth Day, a global act of awareness of the impact of climate change [...]
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March 23, 2023
Maintaining Cable’s Edge in the Broadband Race

Watch Cable Next-Gen Strategies & Technology Fireside Chat In a candid conversation with Alan Breznick, Dan Whalen shares ATX’s strategy for helping MSOs win the broadband race. [...]
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March 16, 2023
MSOs that Opted to Upgrade instead of Overbuild are Sitting Pretty

By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | While the productivity of workers in the U.S. in general has risen by roughly 300% since 1950, productivity in the construction sector has trended in the opposite direction, according to a recently published report. Despite tremendous advances in machinery and technology, the availability of prefab materials and other [...]
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February 13, 2023
Setting the Record Straight: MSOs Love Fiber

By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | Is there anything more frustrating than someone picking a fight with you on a subject in which you’re in 100-percent agreement? Thousands of words have been devoted in just the first few weeks of this year alone to the fallacy that cable operators are anti-fiber. One recent online [...]
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January 27, 2023
Why it’s Way Past Time (about 2000 Years) to Upgrade Your Backup Power Operations

By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | The battery, that near-ubiquitous energy storage source, has been the primary backup power medium for broadband communications providers for the past several decades. Nearly everything that runs on electricity, in fact, cars, phones, smartwatches — you name it — relies on battery power to keep moving, processing and [...]
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December 22, 2022
Why the Case for DOCSIS 4.0 will only get Stronger in 2023

By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | Three of my favorite end-of-year events are ATX’s annual Ugly Holiday Sweater contest, reordering my Word-of-the-Day desk calendar and digesting the banquet of industry blogs and articles offering predictions for the coming year. ATX, with an assist from our friends at BTR, contributed to the cornucopia of 2023 [...]
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November 10, 2022
How ATX is Helping Build a Broadband Cathedral

By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | You don’t need to be an art historian to know that Europe is dotted with dozens of soaring stone cathedrals that date back to the 12th century. From an architecture-appreciation standpoint, it’s nearly impossible to stand before one of these majestic structures and not be awed by the [...]
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September 30, 2022
Top Five Takeaways from Cable-Tec Expo 2022

By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | In addition to regrets over consuming the second half of that jumbo cheesesteak, the safe bet is that the majority of Cable-Tec Expo attendees left Philadelphia last week with a sense of excitement and opportunity about the continued broadband dominance of cable operators well into the future. Feel [...]
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