Tag: taps
April 30, 2025
MSOs Now See Speed & Reliability as Knockout Combination
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | “Speed’s what we need. We need greasy, fast speed.” Those words of wisdom delivered by trainer Mickey Goldmill at the beginning of Rocky II have pretty much been the mantra for broadband service providers for the past several decades, MSOs included. The “G” in CableLabs’ 10G initiative, after all, [...]
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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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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
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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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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