MSO’s struggle to keep up with the growth in the demand for downstream bandwidth due to the explosion of IP video. Motorola has the solution–the TXPlus. Introduced this week, the TXPlus software upgrade for Motorola’s TX32 decoupled downstream module will enable MSO’s to dramatically increase downstream bandwidth cost effectively. With its 2008 launch, the TX32 [...]
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Author: Jeff Walker, Director of CMTS Product Marketing The merging of Comcast’s CMAP blueprint with Time Warner Cable’s CESAR project produced the brand new CCAP concept earlier this year – the Converged Cable Access Platform. The goal of CCAP is to marry edge QAM and CMTS functions in a single system in order to combine [...]
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According to the law of diminishing returns, adding more of a variable factor against a constant will, at some point, lead to a reduction in output. It’s Economics 101 and also a good way to describe cable networks and the challenges that service providers face in delivering a higher quality of service using existing infrastructure. [...]
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