Charting the HFC Evolution in the DOCSIS 4.0 Era Watch the replay of the 2050 Project Survey Results & Analysis webinar, which aired on April 3rd, 2025, to dig into the details of that transformation, as well as gain insight into what your peers are planning when it comes to evolving their HFC networks. Listen [...]

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Small and mid-sized MSOs are at a critical crossroads in the evolution of their HFC networks, weighing the advantages and disadvantages of upgrading their DOCSIS-based infrastructures against accelerating the transition to PON. Extremely relevant to that decision is the recent availability of next-generation outside plant equipment that brings new levels of intelligence to the HFC [...]

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Not all nodes are created equal. Not all nodes are created equal. Many in your current HFC networks were designed decades ago, originally optimized for spectrum below 1GHz. With MSOs now requiring HFC nodes that can handle spectrum of 1.2GHz or even 1.8GHz, as well as support a transition to Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) and [...]

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Charting the HFC Network Evolution Close to half (42%) of the cable professionals participating in the 2024 edition of ATX’s 2050 Project Survey say the recent introduction of technology that extends the downstream capacity of DOCSIS 3.1 architectures has prompted them to reevaluate their DOCSIS 4.0 adoption plans and timetables. That’s just one of more [...]

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The transition of video to IP is imposing disruptions to MDUs and other shared-living environments that rely on informational or communications channels inserted into television lineups. That’s because most of the equipment currently providing channel insertion capabilities for commercial accounts is incapable of working with an IP-based video delivery infrastructure. This webcast from ATX, which [...]

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An already acute shortage of skilled technicians will only worsen when states start doling out $42.5 billion in Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) funding in the next couple of years. That’s why in 2022 ATX introduced its Field Personnel Replenishment Program (FPRP), a hands-on training initiative with a mission to supply the cable industry [...]

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ATX CTO Jay Lee is a featured speaker in this recent webinar that explores MSOs’ options for allocating upstream spectrum to meet current and future subscriber demand. The webinar, Cranking Up the Upstream, originally aired on June 15, 2023. Produced by Light Reading and co-sponsored by ATX, the event was part of the SCTE LiveLearning for [...]

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A little more than 30 years ago, MSOs installed the first fiber nodes in the cable access plant, marking the launch of the Hybrid Fiber-Coax (HFC) network, which would evolve over the next three decades into what is currently the world’s most robust, resilient and agile infrastructure for the delivery of broadband services. In 2020, [...]

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Today’s service providers are highly incentivized to move to a safe and eco-friendly backup-power solution that also balances out the performance and longevity of their investments. Most environmentally conscious decision-makers can agree that moving away from [...]

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With the leisure and hospitality industry showing signs of rebound, hotels and other hospitality venues are recognizing that an enhanced in-room entertainment experience could be the key to driving new business in a Post-COVID world. The problem: Many hospitality venues can’t afford to go big after a financially devastating 2020. The solution: ATX’s Visium™ Set-Back [...]

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ATX Networks recently conducted a research study identifying a hardline passive maintenance replacement model that cable operators can begin today to reduce costs and hasten the upgrade of their outside plant to support frequencies of 1.8GHz and potentially higher. In the webinar, ATX revealed for the first time the findings of this extensive cost-analysis comparison, [...]

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The incentives for extending broadband services to rural communities have never been more compelling. In addition to tens of billions of dollars in public financing being made available over the next few years to broadband-enable unserved or underserved communities, cable operators and other service providers now recognize that remotely located homes and businesses represent new [...]

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Stephen Hardy, Editorial Director of BTR, moderates this panel of industry professionals with the release of the first DOCSIS® 4.0 specifications, operators are in position to begin to plan the next steps in their 10G strategies [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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A new generation of taps and hardline passives is now available that enables MSOs to reap immediate CAPEX and OPEX savings, while prepping the last mile of their networks to seamlessly support future spectrum extensions. This webinar, originally airing on July 24, 2019, shines a spotlight on how updating these devices in your network with [...]

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