Tag: GigaXtend
November 1, 2023
Cable-Tec Expo 2023 Sends Powerful Message to Fiber Community
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | In case you haven’t noticed, telecommunication companies and other FTTH service providers have taken to talking about MSOs, in their advertising and at industry events, as if they are obsolete, dismissing cable plants as legacy or dated. It’s difficult to decipher if this eulogizing of HFC is simply a [...]
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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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February 13, 2023
Setting the Record Straight: MSOs Love Fiber
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | Is there anything more frustrating than someone picking a fight with you on a subject in which you’re in 100-percent agreement? Thousands of words have been devoted in just the first few weeks of this year alone to the fallacy that cable operators are anti-fiber. One recent online [...]
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November 10, 2022
How ATX is Helping Build a Broadband Cathedral
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | You don’t need to be an art historian to know that Europe is dotted with dozens of soaring stone cathedrals that date back to the 12th century. From an architecture-appreciation standpoint, it’s nearly impossible to stand before one of these majestic structures and not be awed by the [...]
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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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March 16, 2022
ATX Reveals Findings of 2nd Annual HFC Evolution Survey
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | The instillation of the first fiber nodes in the cable access plant in the early 1990s gave birth to the Hybrid Fiber-Coax network. What seemed like an inauspicious event at the time, turned out to be the launch date of the world’s most robust and resilient delivery system [...]
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January 28, 2022
Are Cable Operators Ready for the Metaverse?
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | The metaverse is nothing new to science-fiction fans, legions of whom became familiar with the term after its appearance in 1992’s bestselling Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. For the rest of us, the metaverse is a relatively new phenomenon, thrust into the public spotlight most recently and forcefully [...]
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September 9, 2021
ATX Names Digicomm as Stocking Distribution Partner for 1.25GHz Taps & Passives
Expansion of next-gen outside plant distribution deal also includes 1GHz- or 1.2GHz-compatible split upgrade kits “We’ve been good partners with Digicomm for years, and over the last year Digicomm has been invaluable in ensuring the timely and uninterrupted delivery of outside plant technology critical to the current and future success of our global customer base.” [...]
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