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PNM Archives - Volpe Firm

The Volpe Firm's podcast is dedicated to improving cable operators understanding of the technical requirements and demands placed on them to maintain happy subscribers. We are experts in all things cable with a focus on PNM and DOCSIS. We are true technology geeks and proud of it.

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Precision Impairment Location with OFDM & OFDMA Channel Estimation 07.02.2025

Proactive Network Maintenance: Precision Impairment Location with OFDM & OFDMA Channel Estimation Are you ready to revolutionize your network maintenance approach? In this video, we explore how advanced OFDM and OFDMA channel estimation techniques are driving precision impairment location, setting a new standard in Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM). What You’ll Learn: • Precision Fault The p...

UTSC 24.05.2023

Welcome, Brady Volpe and John Downey will dive into the world of UTSC (Upstream Triggered Spectrum Capture) for return path monitoring in a DAA world, how cable operators can harness these game-changing technologies. Join us as we discuss the latest updates on UTSC and PNM. Whether you're a cable operator looking to stay ahead of The post UTSC appeared first on Volpe Firm .

Why should PNM be on your mind? 23.02.2023

Why should PNM be on your mind? Discover the power of PNM in this informative panel discussion with industry leaders Brady Volpe, Jason Rupe of CableLabs, and Larry Wolcott of Comcast. Learn why PNM should be top of mind for anyone in the tech industry and the numerous benefits it offers. Tune in now and The post Why should PNM be on your mind? appeared first on Volpe Firm .

OFDMA Capacity Estimation 13.12.2022

OFDMA Capacity Estimation, pre-eq, LTE & 5G Ingress and more! Your questions answered Brady Volpe and John Downey discuss OFDMA Capacity Estimation, pre-eq, LTE & 5G Ingress and more! In this episode we cover incoming questions from our listeners covering a wide variety of topics. Be sure to join and ask your own questions in The post OFDMA Capacity Estimation appeared first on Volpe Firm...

Full Band Capture Troubleshooting by Impairment Type 19.07.2022

In this episode Brady Volpe of Nimble This and The Volpe Firm, and John Downey (of Cisco) discuss portions of the document "Understanding Cable Network RF Spectrum Displays". This document, created by CableLabs and SCTE Working Group 7 (WG7) is a masterpiece of understanding full band capture (FBC) and the impairments found with FBC. We have The post Full Band Capture Troubleshooting by Impairment...

Upstream Transmit Power with OFDMA 14.03.2022

In this episode Brady Volpe of Nimble This and The Volpe Firm, and John Downey (of Cisco) discuss Upstream Transmit Power with OFDMA and elaborate why a cable modem’s transmit power is extremely important. It not only determines if the cable modem will be able to come online and register with the CMTS (cable modem termination The post Upstream Transmit Power with OFDMA appeared first on Volpe Firm...

House amps, Cable Modems with filter issues 28.12.2021

In this episode Brady Volpe of Nimble This and The Volpe Firm, and John Downey (of Cisco) elaborate on how to use PNM tools to identify house amps, Cable Modems with filter issues, etc. So houses can be identified with incompatible filters for intended UpStream spectrum deployments. Want to know what might be interesting and The post House amps, Cable Modems with filter issues appeared first on Vo...

PNM services and benefits to Cable Operators 26.10.2020

This is episode 66 of Get Your Tech On, our show on All Things DOCSIS.  I'm Brady Volpe, Founder of The Volpe Firm and Nimble This. Join in the conversation with Brady Volpe as he explores the many ways cable operators can benefit from PNM and services. With John Downey CMTS Technical Leader at The post PNM services and benefits to Cable Operators appeared first on Volpe Firm .

Rocking PNM 08.10.2020

Hi everyone, we are going to give an update on rocking Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM) and full band capture (FBC).  New and exciting features in PNM that every cable operator needs. This is episode 64 of Get Your Tech On, our show on All Things DOCSIS.  I'm Brady Volpe, Founder of The Volpe Firm The post Rocking PNM appeared first on Volpe Firm .

DOCSIS 3.1 and FDX 16.05.2019

Happy Friday Everyone. Today is May 10 and this is episode 47 of Get Your Tech On, our show on All Things DOCSIS. I'm Brady Volpe, Founder of The Volpe Firm and Nimble This. With us today is: John Downey, CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco. Today’s topic is a discussion on DOCSIS 3.1 and FDX. The post DOCSIS 3.1 and FDX appeared first on Volpe Firm .

PNM Round Table with Brady Volpe, Comcast, CableLabs, Cisco 18.03.2019

Happy Friday Everyone. Today is March 15 and this is episode 46 of Get Your Tech On, our show on All Things DOCSIS. I'm Brady Volpe, Founder of The Volpe Firm and Nimble This. With us today is: John Downey, CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco. Larry Wolcott PNM Round Table with special guests Larry Wolcott The post PNM Round Table with Brady Volpe, Comcast, CableLabs, Cisco appeared first on Volpe Firm...

R-PHY / DAA Round Table follow up with Brady Volpe, Arris, Cisco and Harmonic 20.02.2019

Happy Friday Everyone.  Today is February 15 and this is episode 45 of Get Your Tech On, our show on All Things DOCSIS.  I'm Brady Volpe, Founder of The Volpe Firm and Nimble This. With us today is John Downey, CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco, Asaf Matatyaou Vice President of Solutions and Product Management, for Cable The post R-PHY / DAA Round Table follow up with Brady Volpe, Arris, Cisco and Ha...

Broadband Tech Talk Friday 22.01.2019

Happy Friday Everyone. Today is January 18 and this is episode 44 of Get Your Tech On, our show on All Things DOCSIS. I'm Brady Volpe, Founder of The Volpe Firm and Nimble This. With us is, John Downey, the Ant Man of Cable. John is also CMTS Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, welcome John. The post Broadband Tech Talk Friday appeared first on Volpe Firm .

PNM Further Enhances Troubleshooting in the New Age of Test Equipment in Broadband Cable 28.12.2017

PNM Further Enhances Troubleshooting in the New Age of Test Equipment in Broadband Cable Happy Monday Everyone.  Today is December 18th and this is episode 34 of Get Your Tech On, our show on All Things DOCSIS.  I'm Brady Volpe, Founder of The Volpe Firm and Nimble This a true cable Geek.   With us is, The post PNM Further Enhances Troubleshooting in the New Age of Test Equipment in Broadband Cabl...

Future Field Operations Technologies Cable 15.03.2017

Future Field Operations Technologies Cable What’s Coming in Field and Operations Technology with Comcast and Cisco Episode 26 of our show on All Things DOCSIS.  Hosted by Brady Volpe, Founder of The Volpe Firm and Nimble This.  Today we have a fantastic episode for you on Future Field Operations Technologies but first let me introduce The post Future Field Operations Technologies Cable appeared fi...

Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM) with Larry Wolcott, Leader at Comcast’s Next Gen Technology Group 12.09.2016

Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM) with Larry Wolcott, Leader at Comcast’s Next Gen Operations Technology Group Episode 23 Hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm, this podcast will focus on Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM) and the next generation in technology in 2016 and a peak of what is to come in 2017. Guest John Downey, CMTS Technical Leader at The post Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM...

May the Force be with Operational Challenges, Industry Trends, DOCSIS 3.1 and Star Wars 18.01.2016

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 – DOCSIS CMTS Challenges to Operators 14.12.2015

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 Challen...

DOCSIS 3.1, PNM – SCTE CABLE TECH EXPO REVIEW 2015 22.10.2015

DOCSIS 3.1, PNM - SCTE CABLE TECH EXPO REVIEW 2015 Episode 16 is hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm and Nimble This with guest John Downey of CISCO systems. Discussion Highlights today we have news, updates from the Cable Tec Expo last week in New Orleans.  And we want to bring our listeners the highlights The post DOCSIS 3.1, PNM – SCTE CABLE TECH EXPO REVIEW 2015 appeared first on Vol...

CableLabs interop DOCSIS 3.1 Channel Bonding 05.10.2015

CableLabs Interop, DOCSIS 3.1 Channel Bonding Episode 15 Hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm and Nimble This, with Guest John Downey.  Today we have news, updates from the CableLabs interop in Colorado, Max transmit power with 8 upstream DOCSIS 3.1 channel bonding, more on T3 timeout, partial mode oh my, T1 timeouts, my recommendations on ad The post CableLabs interop DOCSIS 3.1 Channel Bondin...

WPA exploits as well as WiFi security flaws 17.08.2015

WPA exploits, WiFi security flaws and WEP Hacking Episode 14 Hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm with guest John Downey.  Today we have news, updates from the Proactive Network Maintenance meeting at CableLabs F2F in Colorado last week, SCTE Expo is less than two months away and your questions, our answers. In the NEWS The post WPA exploits as well as WiFi security flaws appeared first on Volp...

ANGACOM, DOCSIS 3.1, PNM, Wifi and Next Generation TV review 29.06.2015

Next Generation TV, ANGACOM, DOCSIS 3.1, PNM and review Episode 13 Hosted by 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 The post ANGACOM, DOCSIS 3.1, PNM, Wifi and Next Ge...

INTX The Internet & Television Expo Review – Episode 12 11.05.2015

INTX The Internet & Television Expo Review Episode 12 hosted by Brady Volpe of the Volpe Firm and Nimble This with guest John Downey with discussion highlights on INTX The Internet and Television Expo plus many other topics including PNM (Proactive Network Maintenance), DOCSIS 3.1 and answering several questions from followers. We do our best to bring The post INTX The Internet & Televisi...

Downstream Full Band Capture and CableLabs Winter Conferance- Episode 10 09.03.2015

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 .

Full Band Capture a Spectrum Analyzer in DOCSIS Cable Modem Episode 9 26.01.2015

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...

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