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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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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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March 14, 2024
Delivering Affordable Broadband Everywhere
ATX CEO Dan Whalen maps out the company’s shared mission with MSOs to bring robust, sustainable and affordable broadband to the masses, narrowing the Digital Divide along the way. A 2024 Cable Next-Gen Technologies and Strategies keynoter, Whalen details how ATX is assisting its customers in elevating the end-user experience while contributing to the greening [...]
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January 4, 2024
ATX’s 2024 Technology Predictions: Doubling Down on 2023
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | ‘Tis the season for prognostication. About this time every year, technology companies and pundits offer up their best estimates of how the trends and business dynamics shaping the industry will play out in the coming year. Almost always missing from this annual ritual is accountability. Like meteorologists who miss [...]
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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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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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August 23, 2021
Why Cable Operators are in ‘Good Hands’ with DOCSIS
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | Recent news cycles have been dedicated to the debate over whether cable operators should continue investment in their HFC networks or instead ditch their DOCSIS® ambitions in favor of some flavor of Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) technology. Any declaration of support for either approach, like this one, is treated as [...]
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May 25, 2021
Why I’m a Proud Follower of the Cult of Coax
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | I got nothing against fiber. As far as broadband media goes, fiber’s got a lot going for it. That’s why it’s the go-to choice among broadband service providers, including cable operators, for extending their services to new areas and regions. Nobody is knocking fiber. But I must admit [...]
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