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09-25-2024
Diamond Technology Reviews 2024
Lightwave+BTR – The 20th Diamond Technology Reviews, in which Lightwave+BTR again recognizes innovation in broadband communications, video transmission, and related technologies, sees a new wave of technology enabling 10G and fiber broadband networks. Honorees will be awarded their Diamond Technology Review award during the SCTE TechExpo24 show in Atlanta, Georgia. View online article [...]
09-23-2024
ATX gets a piece of Charter’s HFC upgrade action
Light Reading – ATX Networks has secured a role in Charter Communications’ cable network upgrade plan, announcing Monday that the operator has certified its “GigaXtend” family of 1.8GHz amplifiers and nodes. View online article [...]
07-30-2024
Light Reading’s Leading Lights Awards 2024: The Finalists
Light Reading – ATX’s GigaXtend Orchestrator is among finalists in Light Reading’s annual Leading Lights Awards in category “Most Innovative Broadband Product or Solution”. This category is awarded to the company that has launched the most innovative new product or solution to enable the delivery or enhance the user experience of high-speed broadband access. View [...]
07-01-2024
Electrical Line Magazine: Why Hybrid Supercapacitors Are A Better Backup Power Solution Than Li-ion Batteries
Electrical Line Magazine, pgs. 31-34 – Featured ATX white paper details technology differences between hybrid supercapacitors and lithium-ion batteries. The article shares insights on the effects deep discharging has on the lifespan of lithium-ion batteries, as well as safety risks posed by dendrite growth, thermal runaway and other safety risks. VIEW ONLINE ARTICLE [...]
04-30-2024
More cable cos are plotting FDX for DOCSIS 4.0 roadmap – ATX
Fierce Network – If you’ve been following DOCSIS 4.0 coverage, you get the impression that the cable industry sees the technology as “The Promised Land.” And that once operators get there, they’ll be able to provide speeds to fit the 21st century broadband user’s needs – online learning, gaming, AR/VR, you name it. But how [...]
10-18-2023
ISP’s leverage improved digital optics to bring fiber to remote communities
Broadband Communities – The opportunities and incentives for internet service providers (ISP’s) to extend broadband services to unserved or underserved communities have never been greater. Closing the so-called “digital divide” and elevating the reach and robustness of broadband services have become targets of massive public funding, attracting proposals of billions of dollars since the end [...]
10-06-2023
ATX plots upgrade path to DOCSIS 4.0
Light Reading – ATX Networks has introduced a DOCSIS 4.0-capable 1.8GHz node that can be deployed as a standalone or dropped in to upgrade tens of thousands of legacy Cisco GS7000 nodes that have been deployed in North America and Latin America. ATX Networks has set its sights on cable’s DOCSIS 4.0 transition with a [...]
10-05-2023
ATX revamps Cisco nodes to make them DOCSIS 4.0 ready
Fierce Telecom – ATX Networks is helping more operators get ready for DOCSIS 4.0 rollouts, unveiling Wednesday its new GigaXtend node capable of supporting 1.8 GHz of spectrum. According to ATX, the 1.8 GHz node is designed as a “successor” to Cisco’s GS7000 platform, which was discontinued in late 2022. It will also “provide a [...]
06-02-2023
MSOs at the Ready
Broadband Community Magazine – Cable MSOs, which have focused on upgrading existing infrastructure, may have a competitive advantage in overcoming local and state permitting obstacles to expand broadband availability. Is fiber the future? Don’t get me wrong – most cable operators would agree that a fiber transition is coming. But with the federal government’s urge [...]
05-09-2023
Changing the HFC vs. Fiber Discussion Could Help Cable MSOs, Says ATX Chief
Broadband Technology Report – ATX Networks recently released the results of an annual survey of cable MSOs that revealed strong support for upgrading HFC infrastructure rather than overbuilding their footprint with fiber to the premises (see “ATX says HFC evolution survey reveals growing MSO support for DOCSIS 4.0”). The logic behind such a strategy is [...]
05-09-2023
Survey: DOCSIS 4.0 Gaining Traction with Cable Ops
Light Reading – With access to a variety of options, cable operators are choosing their own adventure on access network upgrades. Some are biting the bullet and overlaying their networks with all-fiber PON technologies. Many others intend to squeeze all they can out of their widely deployed hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) networks by enhancing their existing [...]
05-09-2023
ATX: Nearly Half of Cable COs will Upgrade to DOCSIS 4.0 by End of 2025
Fierce Telecom – Cable operators are eager to take advantage of the forthcoming DOCSIS 4.0 rollout, as a survey from ATX Networks found nearly half (48%) of cable companies plan to activate DOCSIS 4.0 in their hybrid-fiber coaxial (HFC) networks by the end of 2025. Furthermore, nearly 65% of cable professionals indicated their companies will [...]
03-24-2023
ATX CEO: Our new US factory could help cable score more BEAD money
Fierce Telecom – ATX Networks is on the verge of opening a new manufacturing plant in Michigan which will be capable of pumping out 400,000 to 500,000 new amplifiers each year and eventually also produce as many as 30,000 nodes each year. That plant, CEO Dan Whalen told Fierce, could be the key to helping [...]
03-20-2023
ATX adds US manufacturing for HFC network upgrade wave
Light Reading – ATX Networks is about to launch new US-based manufacturing to loosen supply chain constraints and ramp up production of amplifiers and other outside plant equipment that will underpin the cable industry’s coming wave of network upgrades. ATX expects to start manufacturing at its new plant in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, later this [...]
02-28-2023
Next Gen Infra 2023 Predictions Interview
What’s next for broadband access networks in 2023? Where will investments be focused in broadband access networks? More last-mile fiber, DOCSIS 4.0, or middle mile aggregation? Here are 3 predictions from ATX Networks’ Dan Whalen. View all 2023 predictions in the NextGenInfra showcases. [...]
02-10-2023
MSO Initiatives Address Closing the Digital Divide
Broadband Communities – Cable MSOs will look to fund new network expansions through a combination of existing capital and a spate of recent federal broadband funding programs. The late-2021 passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provided substantial fuel for MSOs to close the digital divide, using public funding such as the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, [...]
11-21-2022
Mara Technologies to expand, create nearly 300 tech jobs in Grand Blanc Township
The Davison Index – GRAND BLANC TWP. — Mara Technologies USA Inc., a new subsidiary of Markham, Ontario-based Invotek Group, will expand operations to Grand Blanc Township with support from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.[…] VIEW ONLINE ARTICLE [...]
11-21-2022
ATX field training program seeks to replenish cable industry technical workforce
Broadband Technology Report – ATX Networks says a new collaboration with community colleges is aimed at replenishing, evolving and growing the cable industry’s technical workforce.[…] VIEW ONLINE ARTICLE [...]
11-21-2022
New ATX program aims to train more cable techs
Fierce Telecom – Plenty of folks have stepped forward this year to help shore up a shortage of fiber workers, but a new training program from access equipment vendor ATX Networks is targeting a different segment of the broadband market: cable.[…] VIEW ONLINE ARTICLE [...]
10-27-2022
CommScope, ATX execs dish on DOCSIS 4.0 work
Fierce Telecom – SCTE CABLE-TEC EXPO – Two key cable vendors told Fierce 1.8GHz network amplifiers – which will play a starring role in rollouts of the extended spectrum variant of DOCSIS 4.0 – are set to make their commercial debut next year. CommScope also confirmed it is working on amplifiers for the full duplex [...]
10-27-2022
When will DOCSIS 4.0 be ready for prime time?
Light Reading – CABLE NEXT-GEN TECHNOLOGIES & STRATEGIES 2022 – DOCSIS 4.0 represents the future of the hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) network, but it’s still not exactly clear when the technology will be deployed.[…] VIEW ONLINE ARTICLE [...]
10-04-2022
Cable Transition to IP Won’t Leave MDU Services Behind
Broadband Community News – Cable’s transition from analog RF to IP services is in progress, with potential disruptions and solutions for many environments. Service providers large and small are migrating to a digital ecosystem to utilize the existing RF spectrum best to deliver continually higher broadband speeds over time while still providing the video services [...]
09-27-2022
Some cable ops will play the waiting game with DOCSIS 4.0
Light Reading – Major US operators such as Comcast and Charter Communications are plowing ahead with plans to roll out DOCSIS 4.0. But it’s also becoming clear that several others are content to play the waiting game as they instead squeeze more capabilities out of their existing DOCSIS 3.1 networks.[…] VIEW ONLINE ARTICLE [...]
09-21-2022
Charter advances on DOCSIS 4.0
Light Reading – SCTE CABLE-TEC EXPO 2022 – Illustrating advancements on the DOCSIS 4.0 front, Charter Communications this week is demonstrating a deployment scenario that enables the operator to bring symmetrical, multi-gigabit speeds across the vast majority of its hybrid fiber/coax (HFC).[…] VIEW ONLINE ARTICLE [...]
09-13-2022
ATX Networks boosts MSO local channel insertion tech for bulk MDU, lobby feeds
Smart Buildings Technology – Updated platform enables MSOs to assist bulk accounts, such as Multi-Dwelling Units (MDUs), apartment buildings, retirement facilities and enterprise customers, in adding lobby feeds and other locally-generated content into television channel lineups.[…] VIEW ONLINE ARTICLE [...]
07-27-2022
Access Communications upgrading HFC amplifiers with ATX Networks’ GigaXtend
Broadband Technology Report – The co-op is upgrading its installed base of GainMaker amplifiers with the GigaXtend GMC, which offers backwards compatibility with Access Communications’ installed base. […] VIEW ONLINE ARTICLE [...]
07-18-2022
Alaska’s GCI to extend its HFC network with ATX gear
Fierce Telecom – Alaskan broadband company GCI is extending the life of its existing hybrid-fiber coax (HFC) network by planning to deploy ATX Networks GigaXtend XS family of 2GHz taps and passives in its network. GCI said that it will begin installing the GigaXtend XS taps and passives in late spring.[…] VIEW ONLINE ARTICLE [...]
07-13-2022
Access Communications taps ATX for 1.2GHz HFC outside plant upgrade
Light Reading – ATX Networks, a global leader in broadband access and media distribution solutions, is supplying its market-leading GigaXtend GMC 1.2GHz HFC amplifiers to Access Communications to assist the Saskatchewan-based, community-owned co-operative in expanding the bandwidth capacity of both the upstream and downstream channels of its HFC network, which serves 235 communities and 200,000 [...]
06-23-2022
GCI taps ATX to help prep plant for DOCSIS 4.0 and 10G
Light Reading – ATX Networks, a global leader in broadband access and media distribution solutions, is providing GCI, Alaska’s largest broadband operator, with its GigaXtend® XS family of 2GHz taps and passives. By deploying DOCSIS 4.0-compatible taps and passives today, GCI is able to support its immediate goals of extending the current HFC network to [...]
04-29-2022
Comcast, Charter take DOCSIS 4.0 and ’10G’ a step toward commercial reality
Light Reading – Several pieces of the DOCSIS 4.0 ecosystem are still in development or are available today only in prototype form. But technology demos from Charter Communications and Comcast this week showed that significant progress is being made toward the commercialization of DOCSIS 4.0. […] VIEW ONLINE ARTICLE [...]
07-26-2021
ATX plots path to DOCSIS 4.0
Light Reading – Boosting the capacity of the cable network to 1.8GHz is one possible choice cable operators have with DOCSIS 4.0, and it’s that option that’s been firmly planted on ATX Networks’ roadmap. The supplier expects to reveal more of the technical details this fall (possibly around the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, set for October [...]
06-14-2021
Hitting the upstream ‘sweet spot’ with DOCSIS 4.0
Light Reading – Expanding spectrum – particularly in the upstream direction – is one of the hallmarks of DOCSIS 4.0, a new set of specs that will deliver multiple-gigabit speeds alongside support for enhanced security and lower latencies. But operators have a lot of optionality to noodle on as they decide where to eventually set [...]
03-24-2021
ATX starts to pick up where Cisco left off
Light Reading – ATX Networks is starting to salt away cable network amplifier deals that stem from a licensing agreement with Cisco that the vendor struck more than a year ago. ATX announced this week that NOS, a Portuguese operator, has selected its GigaXtend GMC Series of 1.2GHz amplifiers to upgrade its installed base of [...]
08-05-2020
ATX fills a gap as it takes over Cisco’s cable amp biz
Light Reading – Adding a degree of continuity to the cable access product market as it takes over Cisco’s cable amplifier business, ATX Networks has pinned down a distribution deal for next-gen outside plant products with Colorado-based Digicomm International. The agreement, which expands on an earlier, smaller one between ATX and Digicomm, covers ATX’s GigaXtend [...]
06-24-2020
Webinar – The 2050 Project: A New Era of HFC Evolution
The 2050 Project is a new initiative from ATX offering a strategic vision and technology game plan for the long-term evolution of existing HFC networks. Its primary objective is to enable MSOs to migrate their massive coaxial cable plants to fiber in the most cost-effective manner possible and without surrendering their dominance in broadband service [...]
04-30-2020
GigaPass Webinar: How to Handle QAM Video in a DAA World
Even after migrating to a distributed architecture, most cable operators will still need to support legacy QAM video – at least until they’ve fully upgraded customer-premises equipment to IP. While early DAA adopters tended to focus on an integrated Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP) to handle both DOCSIS® and QAM video traffic, MSOs now have [...]
04-27-2020
ATX looks to DOCSIS 4.0 and beyond
Broadband Technology Report – ATX Networks has introduced its GigaXtend family of outside plant equipment, a lineup of active and passive components designed to help cable operators extend the longevity of their HFC networks by 25 years or longer. The product portfolio includes nodes, amplifiers and hardline taps and passives with an upgrade path to [...]
04-27-2020
ATX opens next chapter in its cable network story
Light Reading – Pushing ahead with a plan to become a key supplier of outside cable plant equipment, ATX Networks has introduced a new lineup of outside plant products designed to take aim at next-gen hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) networks that will be outfitted with vastly beefed-up bandwidth. ATX claims its new portfolio of nodes, amplifiers, [...]
02-20-2020
Cisco shifts next-gen cable amp business to ATX Networks
Andrei – stock.adobe.com Light Reading – In a move that alters the competitive landscape of cable access suppliers, ATX Networks confirmed that it has the green light to develop a lineup of next-generation cable amplifiers that are compatible with Cisco Systems’ widely deployed GainMaker technology. Word that ATX is set to build GainMaker-compatible amps later [...]
12-18-2019
Cisco Prepares to Unplug Its Cable Amps
Andrei – stock.adobe.com Light Reading – In another signal that Cisco Systems is de-emphasizing its cable hardware strategy, the vendor recently alerted customers that it will halt the sale of its family of GainMaker cable amplifiers starting next fall. While Cisco’s decision to end-of-life those products is cause for concern for cable operators that rely [...]
09-21-2019
ATX Networks GigaPass, 4.0 Diamonds
Broadband Technology Report – The ATX GigaPass is a QAM-to-IP media gateway designed to pass encrypted video from existing edge QAM equipment through IP-based CCAP video cores or directly to the CIN. The gateway features a modular design and density that delivers up to 320 processed QAMs in a single RU. It enables MSOs to [...]
07-09-2019
Armando Carmona de ATX: Con GigaXtend ofrecemos una alternativa para desarrollar por más tiempo la infraestructura de cable coaxial
PRODU – ATX destaca las posibilidades que brindan sus productos GigaXtend y GigaWave para acelerar los servicios de ancho de banda tanto en cable coaxial como en fibra óptica. Ambos productos son parte del portafolio de soluciones que está mostrando en Convergencia 2019. Armando Carmona, director de Ventas para la región CALA, destaca: “Estamos ayudando [...]
06-16-2019
ATX Network lanza mejora en MD16 OTT para facilitar transmisión en otros verticales del negocio
PRODU – ATX destaca las posibilidades que brindan sus productos GigaXtend y GigaWave para acelerar los servicios de ancho de banda tanto en cable coaxial como en fibra óptica. Ambos productos son parte del portafolio de soluciones que está mostrando en Convergencia 2019. Armando Carmona, director de Ventas para la región CALA, destaca: “Estamos ayudando [...]
06-05-2019
ATX Gets Down With OTT
Light Reading – Dallas — ATX Networks, a global leader in digital access and media distribution solutions, introduced an enhancement to the MD16™ bulk media distribution gateway that will enable service providers to offer hotels, hospitals, universities, apartments and other commercial customers streaming media capabilities. The new MD16 OTT streaming blade enables an over-the-top (OTT) [...]
05-22-2019
Equipamiento de nueva generación
Fibraopticahoy – Aportando baja pérdida por inserción y un ancho de banda extendido, esta familia de equipamiento de nueva generación se compone de derivaciones, insertadores de potencia, acopladores y divisores también extiende el alcance de las redes HFC. ATX Networks presenta en sociedad su nueva gama GigaXtend de derivaciones, insertadores de potencia, acopladores y divisores, [...]
05-21-2019
ATX Intros ‘GigaXtend’ Lineup of Taps, Passives & Splitters
Light Reading – New Orleans — ATX Networks, disrupting the future of broadband access, introduced the GigaXtend® family of taps, power inserters, couplers and splitters, the company’s latest innovation in next-generation outside plant equipment designed to inject immediate cost and performance benefits into the HFC network, as well as position cable operators to seamlessly extend [...]
05-21-2019
ATX Intros 2 GHz DOCSIS Taps and Passives
Broadband Technology Report – ATX Networks has introduced the GigaXtend family of taps, power inserters, couplers and splitters, designed to position cable operators to extend their networks to 2 GHz and beyond. The GigaXtend portfolio will be on display at ANGA COM in Cologne, Germany, June 4-6. GigaXtend technology is designed to support bandwidth of [...]
03-27-2019
Next-Gen PRSS System Is on the Way
Radio World – With some anticipation, public radio engineers all over the United States have been waiting for the next-generation satellite distribution system. New equipment was last deployed by the Public Radio Satellite System in 2011. The new generation will add important features to improve reliability and flexibility of program distribution, including a backup path via [...]
03-26-2019
PRSS plans rollout of next generation of satellite receivers
Current – After several years of discussion and input from member stations, the Public Radio Satellite System is preparing to unveil new receivers selected for the coming upgrade of public radio’s interconnection system. The receivers, chosen for the latest 10-year cycle of CPB interconnection funding, will introduce a completely new vendor, ATX Networks. Unlike the [...]
03-26-2019
Sky UK, ATX Team on Hotel TV
Light Reading – ATX Networks, disrupting the future of broadband access, is supplying the critical technology behind Sky UK’s recently launched Sky Select, a commercial television service aimed at the hospitality industry that delivers unmissable content in stunning high definition. Europe’s leading entertainment and communications company has selected the ATX MD16, which it is branding [...]
03-26-2019
Sky launches Sky Select for hospitality industry
Broadband TV News – Sky is offering hotels a new HD service that runs through a unit known as the Sky Bright Box, a version of the ATX MD16. Sky Select offers a package of 96 satellite channels alongside Freeview and foreign channels. The MD16 Satellite Gateway is a single-box system designed for deployment at [...]
02-28-2019
NPR/PRSS Building New Broadcast Infrastructure With ATX.
Inside Radio – ATX Networks has announced details of its alliance with the Public Radio Satellite System (PRSS) to revitalize NPR’s nationwide radio network. The audio distribution technology provider has aligned with PRSS to supply the national radio distributor with a broadcast network infrastructure for the management, distribution, scheduling, playout and verification of radio programming [...]
01-12-2019
CCAP video and DAA migration
Broadband Technology Report – Entering 2019, most cable operators are either planning out their adoption strategies or actively migrating to a distributed access architecture (DAA) that will allow them to push fiber deeper into their network and realize business-enhancing performance and operational benefits. But some of these infrastructure migration initiatives are facing setbacks due to [...]
11-08-2018
Introducing the Gigabit Generation
Broadband World News – We are on the brink of an era of ubiquitous and hyper-fast broadband, laying the foundation for a fully digital existence only hinted at in futuristic TV shows and movies. This next frontier will spur innovation, dramatically impact consumers and businesses, and continue to reshape the value proposition that MSOs and [...]
