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Today’s show we will cover a number of topics including DOCSIS 3.1 spectrum allocation, applications and deployment in existing cable plants. No changes in the existing plants are necessary! What Cable Operators need to know. And ANGACOM presentation preview. Both John Downey and Brady Volpe will be presenting at ANGACOM this year. Find out what they will be covering.

Today’s show we will cover a number of topics including RF fundamentals. The discussion starts with basic building blocks of the sine wave and evolves to how QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) signals are comprised of sine waves with varying amplitude and phase shifts, which means even though we call them digital signals, they are actual analog signals carrying digital data. This is a great sho...

Operator Perspective of Technology Advancements in Cable and other interesting facts Episode 19 Hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm and Nimble This Guest John Downey, CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems and special guest, Jeff Finkelstein Executive Director of Network Strategy at Cox Communication. Today’s show we will cover a number of topics including The post Operator Perspective of Tech...

May the Force be with Operational Challenges, Industry Trends, DOCSIS 3.1 and Star Wars Episode 18 Hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm and Nimble This.  Guest John Downey, CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems.  Today we are going to focus on your questions and provide our answers.  If we don’t have answers we promise to The post May the Force be with Operational Challenges, Industry Trends,...

Operational Challenges in Cable - CMTS Challenges to Operators Episode 17 Hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm and Nimble This.  Guest John Downey and Steve William TWC Director, Access Network Planning, Design & Operations.  Steve is also a huge supporter of the SCTE, having served as on a number of SCTE chapter and National board The post Operational Challenges – DOCSIS CMTS Challenges to Ope...

FBC, DOCSIS 3.1, PNM, Comcast goes all in on IP video - Comcast says it will complete its transition to all-IP video by early next year, paving the way to improved delivery of over-the-top services and device connectivity and Cable providers face cybersecurity

CableLabs interop in Colorado, Max transmit power with 8 upstream channel bonding, more on T3 timeout, partial mode oh my, T1 timeouts, my recommendations on ad blocking and more.

Proactive Network Maintenance meeting at CableLabs F2F in Colorado last week, SCTE Expo is less than two months away and your questions, our answers

Brady Volpe was joined by John Downey discussing Next Generation TV, smart TV, OFDM, WiFi issues in the home and how they impact the cable operator, operational changes requires to be proactive and not reactive in the cable plant, DOCSIS 3.1 & other cable topics from plus many other topics including PNM (Proactive Network Maintenance) and answering several questions from followers.

Brady Volpe was joined by John Downey discussing the INTX The Internet and Television Expo plus many other topics including PNM (Proactive Network Maintenance), DOCSIS 3.1 and answering several questions from followers.

challenges cable operators face DOCSIS internet security and best practices they can follow to secure their networks from DDoS, DoS, DNS, High Value Targets

Brady and John cover the CableLabs Winter Conference, the press release from Broadcom and upstream expansion to 85 MHz and beyond. If you have not heard about Broadcom's press release on upstream analysis capability in the cable modem you will defiantly want to check out this video. The post Downstream Full Band Capture and CableLabs Winter Conferance- Episode 10 appeared first on Volpe Firm .

DOCSIS 3.0 Full Band Capture and So Much More Episode 9 Hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm and Nimble This with guest John Downey of Cisco.  Brady and John cover the benefits of the latest technology available (full band capture) in DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems such as: Full band capture offering spectrum analyzer functionality in The post Full Band Capture a Spectrum Analyzer in DOCSIS Cable Mode...

DOCSIS Load Balancing Continued, DOCSIS 3.1 and other questions answered Episode 8 Hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm and Nimble This with guest John Downey of Cisco.  Brady and John cover what DOCSIS load balancing is all about, best practices for load balancing, and common challenges faced with DOCSIS load balancing.  The guys also The post DOCSIS Load Balancing Continued Episode 8 appeared...

Load Balancing, DOCSIS 3.1 and Power Calculations Episode 7 Hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm and Nimble This with guest John Downey of Cisco.  Discussion Highlights included DOCSIS 3.1, Load Balancing, Proactive Network Maintenance - PNM and Power Calculations. We do our best to bring our audience great technical content every month. You can watch us live on The post Load Balancing DOCSIS 3...

SCTE EXPO 2014 Technology Review Episode 6 Hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm and Nimble This with Guest John Downey of Cisco. With a review of SCTE EXPO. The discussion is on all things DOCSIS. Tips, suggestions and recommendations. Another power hour of cable with Brady Volpe and John Downey CMTS Technical Leader at The post SCTE EXPO 2014 Technology Review Episode 6 appeared first on Volpe...

DOCSIS 3.1 Backwards Compatible so it can Co-Exist with Legacy DOCSIS Episode 5 Hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm and Nimble This with Guest John Downey of Cisco.  DOCSIS 3.1 backwards compatible is good news.  Other discussion highlights: Remote PHY Different bandwidths in DOCSIS 3.1 Difference between DFB, FP and digital returns Legacy DOCSIS and The post DOCSIS 3.1 Backwards Compatible –...

When everything is operating properly, we have great advantages for modem speed and operation at the expense of allocating more spectrum for more DOCSIS channels. When things are not going well, we may not be aware or we may not have the expertise to troubleshoot the situation or even remedy the issues properly.

Brady and John will discuss the many advantages and disadvantages of DOCSIS 3.0 Channel bonding. When everything is operating properly, we have great advantages for modem speed and operation at the expense of allocating more spectrum for more DOCSIS 3.0 channels. When things are not going well, we may not be aware or we may not have the expertise to troubleshoot the situation or even remedy the is...

Episode 2 we will cover how DOCSIS pre-equalization data can be used to identify upstream impairments through Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM) and why this is valuable to a cable operator. Spectrum Analyzer in the CMTS

Part one covers the benefits and limitations of DOCSIS Pre-Equalization and critical features in the CMTS and how they impact Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM).

DOCSIS 3.0 Channel Bonding - Your Questions Answered Brady Volpe and John Downey will discuss the many advantages and disadvantages of DOCSIS 3.0 channel bonding. When everything is operating properly, we have great advantages for modem speed and operation at the expense of allocating more spectrum for more DOCSIS 3.0 channels.  When things are not going The post DOCSIS 3.0 Channel Bonding – Episo...