Tag: passives
March 24, 2025
What the Latest Edition of the 2050 Project Survey Reveals About Cable’s Future
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | Technology takes time. Even though it’s been six years since CableLabs® introduced the DOCSIS 4.0 standards, real-world adoption is just beginning. But that doesn’t mean DOCSIS® 4.0 hasn’t already impacted the cable industry in a big way. Back in 2019, most cable operators followed the same technology playbook. Then [...]
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March 20, 2025
ATX ‘2050 Project’ Survey Charts Transformation of Cable Industry in DOCSIS 4.0 Era
Findings from fifth-annual HFC evolution study highlight an increase in the number of technology options and competitive pressure since the introduction of DOCSIS 4.0 specifications in 2019 ATLANTA, March 19, 2025 – ATX Networks, a global leader in broadband access and media distribution solutions, today announced the results of its latest 2050 Project Survey, unique [...]
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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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July 23, 2024
Upgrading Amps? Don’t Get Distracted by the Number in Front of ‘GHz’
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | Normally, we love numbers. The cable industry lexicon wouldn’t be the same without them. It’s how we set milestones (10G) and measure progress (DOCSIS 4.0). When it comes to shopping for your next HFC amplifier or node, though, it might be a good idea to consider concentrating on the [...]
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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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May 7, 2024
MSOs must Execute Next-Phase of HFC Evolution with Timing and Precision to Maintain Broadband Leadership
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | Whether the final destination is DOCSIS® 4.0 or optimizing DOCSIS 3.1 for all its worth, MSOs need to continue to evolve their networks to keep pace with subscriber demand and fend off competitors, including FTTH providers offering multigigabit symmetrical services. But MSOs can’t afford to focus on speed and [...]
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October 29, 2021
Veteran MSO Engineer offers Insights on Navigating the Journey to DOCSIS 4.0
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | “There’s still a long way to go but it’s a relatively straight-forward chain of events that we’ve been through many times,” said Tee Harton, Senior Director of OSP Engineering at Cox Communications, describing the industry’s eventual adoption of the extended spectrum version of DOCSIS 4.0 at this month’s [...]
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May 12, 2021
Why Your HFC Evolution Strategy Requires Frequent Refreshing
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | Most cable technologists and engineers tend to think and plan in increments of about five years or so. And for good reason: technology evolves at such a rapid rate that today’s cutting-edge equipment, and the adoption assumptions it is based on, could be outdated, or even obsolete, within [...]
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May 5, 2021
Why the Time to Futureproof your Network is Now
By Dan Whalen, ATX President & CEO | Regrettable spend, roughly defined as technology investments with short lifespans or absorbing unnecessary operational costs to retread the same ground, keeps cable execs and engineers up at night as much as anything else. Some potential bad news for cable operators is that they may be losing more [...]
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November 18, 2020
Prepping Your HFC Network for DOCSIS 4.0 – Part II
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | A blog published earlier this month tackled the topic of DOCSIS 4.0 readiness from the perspective of MSOs considering deploying the Full Duplex DOCSIS (FDX) flavor of the recently published CableLabs specifications. This article covers what MSOs need to know to prep their HFC plants for DOCSIS 4.0 [...]
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