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July 10, 2019
How Next-Gen Taps & Passives Can Help Tune Your Network to Perfection
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | Like nearly everyone these days, I can fit what amounts to all of my music-playing equipment, along with my entire music collection, into my back pocket. That wasn’t always the case, of course. Not that long ago, I could easily consume an entire wall of a good-size room [...]
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April 17, 2019
A New Mantra for MSOs: Agility Matters
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | Choices are the hinges of destiny. Most scholars say the above quotation from American poet Edwin Markham suggests that the decisions we make today will have a significant impact on the future. Despite being penned long before the digital revolution was even a twinkle in Tim Berners-Lee’s eye, [...]
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April 2, 2019
Why Radio’s Future Requires a New Approach to Audio Distribution & Content Management
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | Despite predictions of its demise, beginning with the introduction of television in the 1950s, radio has adapted and persevered. It continues to serve a larger audience than newspapers, magazines, television and the Internet. But the continued success of network operators depends heavily on their ability to cut operational [...]
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November 26, 2018
When it Makes Sense to Bypass Building a CCAP Video Core
By Linas Underys, VP of Media Gateway Products | Innovation means a lot of different things at ATX. Most technology companies apply that term exclusively to cutting-edge, future-looking products and solutions. And ATX is no exception to that practice – see our recent introduction of a DAA-optimized node. But innovation should encompass so much more [...]
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November 16, 2018
Cox and ATX’s GigaWave-powered OCML take Center Stage at 2018 SCTE Cable-Tec Expo
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | Tier-1 MSOs are among the most deliberative business entities on the planet, painstakingly planning out every last detail of a technology transition before laying hands on a single strand of fiber. Such was the case with Cox Communications’ Optical Communications Module Link (OCML) extender platform, the key component [...]
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September 19, 2018
Time to Make the Move to a Centralized Broadcast Model
By Jose Rivero, Vice President of Broadcast | When the FCC in the fall of 2017 scrapped the rule requiring broadcasters to maintain a presence and staff in the local communities they serve, it opened the door for radio network owners to move to a centralized operating model that offers the potential to reduce costs [...]
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July 11, 2018
The Dawning of The Gigabit Generation
By Charlie Vogt, ATX Networks CEO | Everything is about to change. “We sit on the precipice of a digital transformation that will rewrite the way humans communicate, interact, conduct business, monitor their health, acquire knowledge and spend their leisure time.” We sit on the precipice of a digital transformation that will rewrite the way [...]
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