Tag: 1.8GHz
January 28, 2025
Bluepeak Partners with ATX for Next-Gen Evolution of Broadband Network
Internet provider’s HFC network upgrade features ATX’s GigaXtend 1.8GHz-capable amplifiers, taps, passives and professional services ATLANTA, January 28, 2025 – ATX Networks, a global leader in broadband access and media distribution solutions, is supplying Bluepeak, one of the largest and most innovative broadband providers serving the Great Plains region, with next-gen outside plant equipment to [...]
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January 23, 2025
How the Cable Industry has Transformed in the DOCSIS 4.0 Era
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | Six years ago this month, CableLabs® announced the release of DOCSIS 4.0, the next generation of the venerable data-over-cable specification that has played an instrumental role in making MSOs dominant broadband providers in North America, as well as other parts of the world. Though commercial deployments based on the [...]
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January 9, 2025
Inside ATX’s Michigan Manufacturing Facility: Where Automation Meets Human Expertise
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | Regardless of how precise and productive automation and artificial intelligence grow, neither will completely replace its human model or replicate the nuance and innate ingenuity that produce abstract works of art or masterpieces of literature — or even next-generation outside plant technology. While comparing HFC amplifiers to Hamlet is [...]
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June 18, 2024
Will 10G be Enough for Everybody?
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | A hallmark of any technology industry, as well as the advanced-degree-laden engineers and other technologists who invigorate that industry with innovation, is a healthy obsession over what comes next. At any given time, a more-than-trivial percentage of research and development is being devoted to answering questions that are a [...]
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March 14, 2024
Delivering Affordable Broadband Everywhere
Cable Next-Gen Technologies and Strategies keynoter, Dan Whalen, details how they are assisting its customers in elevating the end-user experience while contributing to the greening of the planet [...]
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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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September 13, 2022
ATX Networks to Showcase 1.8GHz HFC Amp Portfolio at Cable-Tec Expo 2022
Product introduction coincides with first order of 1.8GHz amplifiers placed by major North American cable operator SAN DIEGO, Sept. 13, 2022 – ATX Networks, a global leader in broadband access and media distribution solutions, will debut the GigaXtend™ GMC 1.8GHz family of next-generation HFC amplifiers at next week’s SCTE tradeshow and exhibition. Visitors to ATX’s [...]
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August 8, 2022
Will the HFC Network ever Get to 3GHz?
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | Cable companies knew what they were doing more than a half century ago when they selected coaxial cable as their preferred medium. Estimates vary, but most cable technology experts calculate that modern coax cable is capable of supporting frequencies topping off between 6–10GHz, meaning that MSOs could theoretically [...]
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May 25, 2022
MSOs: Don’t get Knocked Off Course by the ‘Fiber Frenzy’
By Jay Lee, ATX Chief Technology Officer and Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | Fiber, let’s face it, is on a roll. In the past year or so, the future prospects of broadband service providers building out FTTH networks have brightened. A windfall of public funding dedicated to closing the so-called Digital Divide appears disproportionately [...]
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May 13, 2022
Debunking the Fiber is Faster than Coax Myth
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | When it comes to the evolutionary path of the HFC network, all roads lead to fiber, a broadband transmission medium offering almost limitless bandwidth. That’s the reason cable operators routinely — and almost exclusively — pull PON technology out of their toolboxes when it comes to greenfield buildouts. Fiber, [...]
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