The 2050 Project: Parts I & II
An ATX Informational Series on the long-term Evolution of your HFC Network

The Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial (HFC) network is a success story nearly 30 years in the making. It has provided the foundation for a continuous flow of innovation and bandwidth expansion that has helped make cable operators the world’s preeminent providers of broadband services. But what about the next 30 years? The 2050 Project is an outside plant evolution initiative designed to assist MSOs in extending their decades-long HFC network investments well into the future. The initiative, outlined in these two white papers, provides a formula for extending the longevity of existing HFC networks in the most economical manner possible, as well as a roadmap that will enable MSOs to better absorb the cost and complexity of their inevitable migrations to an all-fiber infrastructure.

Part I
A New Era of Outside Plant Evolution provides a detailed exploration of the 2050 Project, as well as an analysis of the many factors contributing to cable operators’ renewed interest in extending the longevity of their HFC networks through incremental frequency increases, beginning at 1.8GHz

Part II
Moving from the conceptual to the practical, Building the HFC Network of the Future — Starting Today focuses on the DOCSIS^® 4.0 specification’s immediate impact on the bandwidth carrying capacity of the millions of miles of installed coax plant. The document also provides insight into the products, roadmaps and best practices that will assist MSOs in kicking off their long-term HFC evolution strategies.

Readers will also learn:

About the potential competitive risks to MSOs of failing to keep up with the bandwidth demands of subscribers attached to their HFC networks

Which critical outside plant elements will need to be updated or replaced to support the DOCSIS 4.0 specification and higher frequencies

Why CableLabs designed DOCSIS 4.0 to support both Full Duplex DOCSIS (FDX) and Frequency Division Duplex (FDD), and the implications for MSOs

How MSOs upgrading their networks to 1.8GHz could realize bandwidth benefits similar to those associated with fiber deep architectures, but at lower costs

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