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Three Reasons 2012 Should Be a Good Year for Cable VOD

Author: Bob Scheffler, Director, Next-Generation Video Solutions With all of the TV Everywhere buzz, it’s easy to let growing levels of cable VOD services slip under the radar. That’s a mistake. Here are three reasons why video-on-demand should have a banner year in 2012. Narrowcast QAMs are getting cheaper and easier to deploy. New high-density [...]

Three Words on the APEX3000 Universal Edge QAM: Density, Redundancy, and Ingest

Author:  Chris Brown, Director of Product Management As discussed in an earlier post, the new APEX3000 universal edge QAM is designed to bridge the gap between legacy architectures and future CCAP deployments. However, three specific characteristics make this new universal edge QAM extremely valuable for today – whether you have CCAP (Converged Cable Access Platform) [...]

Introducing the APEX3000 Universal Edge QAM: 1,536 QAM Channels and a Bridge to CCAP

Author: Chris Brown, Director of Product Management The SCTE show opens today and news from Motorola Mobility is just rolling in.  Today we’ve launched the APEX3000 Universal Edge QAM. It’s a super-dense chassis with 32 ports and 48 channels per port, supporting 1,536 QAM channels. The APEX3000 is designed not only to meet growing demand [...]

The Case for Distributed CCAP – High-Density Edge QAMs and the Converged Cable Access Platform

 Author: Jeff Walker, Director of CMTS Product Marketing While progress continues with the Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP, formerly CMAP and Cesar), there are still many questions surrounding when large scale deployments will begin, and how to continue meeting new bandwidth demands in the present while upgrading IP infrastructure for the future. One of the [...]

Cable’s CCAP Future – How and When the Converged Cable Access Platform Will Emerge

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 [...]