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January 15, 2021
RDOF and the Dawning of Smart Farming
By Dan Whalen, ATX President & CEO | The broadband industry exited arguably its craziest year with what sure feels like some very promising momentum toward closing the digital divide. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in December unveiled the winning bidders in phase 1 of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) reverse auction, a process [...]
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December 11, 2020
Why the Unification of CableLabs and SCTE is a Big Deal
By Dan Whalen, ATX President & CEO | CableLabs and SCTE-ISBE this week made official their recently announced merger plans with the successful conclusion of a vote by SCTE members to make their organization a subsidiary of CableLabs, effective Jan. 1, 2021. I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that neither side [...]
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November 18, 2020
Prepping Your HFC Network for DOCSIS 4.0 – Part II
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | A blog published earlier this month tackled the topic of DOCSIS 4.0 readiness from the perspective of MSOs considering deploying the Full Duplex DOCSIS (FDX) flavor of the recently published CableLabs specifications. This article covers what MSOs need to know to prep their HFC plants for DOCSIS 4.0 [...]
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November 10, 2020
Prepping Your HFC Network for DOCSIS 4.0 – Part I
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | Despite being virtual, the 2020 edition of the Cable-Tec Expo more than lived up to historical standards for showcasing the latest technologies and trends shaping the future direction of the cable industry. This month’s expo featured dozens of presentations and papers capturing the most forward-looking research and education [...]
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October 7, 2020
Pandemics, Disasters Raise Channel Insertion Profile
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | So much has changed about our day-to-day lives over the past seven months or so: the way we work, how we buy groceries, how our children learn and even what we wear and how we behave when we venture outside. Normalcy, like Elvis, left the building sometime around [...]
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September 10, 2020
Why Upgrading Your GainMaker Amplifiers is as Easy as 1-2-3
By Joe McGarvey, Director, Marketing | Earlier this year, ATX Networks completed a technology licensing agreement with Cisco® that effectively extended the life and evolutionary path of the venerable GainMaker® amplifier product family. Ever since, we’ve been working tirelessly to make it as easy and seamless as possible for current GainMaker customers to protect and [...]
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September 8, 2020
When will 10G of Bandwidth Not be Enough?
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | OK, so that’s a trick question. Nobody, short of Nostradamus or even Achilles the Cat, can predict with any certainty when a 10Gbps pipe will lack the heft that subscribers will require to effectively participate in the digital environments they desire. What’s certain, though, is that a 10Gbps [...]
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May 20, 2020
ATX GainMaker-Compatible Amplifiers: Accept no Substitutes
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | The English language is rife with idioms about authenticity. Advertisers scream at us daily to “accept no imitations” or “purchase no substitutes.” Even common surnames, like “McCoy,” have morphed into catchphrases to distinguish the “real” from the wannabe. Why the obsession with originality? One reason might be as [...]
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May 13, 2020
What will be the Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 WFH Policies on MSOs?
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | Over the next couple of months, ATX Networks will roll out what we are calling the 2050 Project, a vision and technology roadmap designed to assist MSOs in extending the longevity of their HFC networks for the next 30 years. It’s an ambitious plan, and one we hope [...]
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April 23, 2020
Why Satellite-to-IP Transition is only First Phase of Audio Distribution Revolution
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | Is the radio industry’s era of satellite-based audio content transmission coming to a close? Many radio networks around the world are involved in serious investigations of the many merits of moving their audio distribution operations to an Internet-based model. The article covers a few of the remaining hurdles [...]
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