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Re: Dream Modem - 24x8CommScope is also showing-off their new CCAP-capable CMTS models at the Cable-Tec Expo: Cable-Tec Expo: CommScope Tips CCAP Hand Vendor Says High-Density Edge QAM Platform Beats Spec TargetsBy Todd Spangler, Multichannel News - October 17, 2012 » www.multichannel.com/bro ··· d/139855 |
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Some more CCAP news today: Cisco Extends Bridge to CCAPBy Jeff Baumgartner, Light Reading Cable - December 12, 2012 » www.lightreading.com/doc ··· lr_cableOn Wednesday, the company launched two capacity-boosting cards -- the Performance Routing Engine (PRE5) and the 3-Gigabit Shared Port Adapter (3GSPA) -- made to snap into its widely deployed flagship CMTS, the uBR10K. They'll act as an intermediate step toward CCAP, an architecture meant to help cable unify all services, including video, under IP. : Cisco says trials are planned with "several major" cable operators in the U.S. and abroad starting in the first quarter of 2013. Cisco didn't name them, but Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc., two of Cisco's key customers, are expected to be among the first MSOs to test and deploy CCAP.
Comcast has already issued a CCAP request for proposal (RFP) and has said it will begin some initial deployments this year. More details about that could emerge today at noon E.T. during a Light Reading Cable webinar sponsored by Cisco that will feature John Mattson, Cisco's senior director of strategic marketing, and Jorge Salinger, Comcast's VP of access architecture. |
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A follow-up article to yesterday's one on Cisco's CCAP activities/strategy: Cisco Says CCAP's Tipping Point Is 1Gbit/sBy Jeff Baumgartner, Light Reading Cable - December 13, 2012 » www.lightreading.com/doc ··· lr_cable |
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Comcast's CCAP Deployment PlansAnother follow-up article with Jorge Salinger's (VP of access architecture) update on Comcast's CCAP deployment plans and results from their CCAP operational-readiness test that was conducted earlier this year: What Comcast Learned From Trying Out CCAPBy Jeff Baumgartner, Light Reading Cable - December 14, 2012 » www.lightreading.com/doc ··· lr_cable |
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FYI - An update on CCAP deployment and vendors on the Light Reading Cable site today: Sizing Up the CCAP PlayersBy Jeff Baumgartner, Light Reading Cable - January 23, 2013 » www.lightreading.com/hea ··· 40146837 |
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The latest news on Comcast's CCAP deployment plans in this article on the LRC site today: Major Cable Players Rally Around CCAPBy Jeff Baumgartner, Light Reading Cable - March 21, 2013 » www.lightreading.com/hea ··· 40151312 |
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Could some of these orders be from Comcast? Harmonic Eyes First CCAP Orders in Q2 Anticipated Deals Could Help Harmonic Rebound From Soft U.S. Cable Spending in Q1By Jeff Baumgartner, Multichannel News - April 26, 2013 » www.multichannel.com/tec ··· 2/142965 |
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Casa has introduced its new, high-density, integrated chassis, the C100G, designed to meet the specs for the Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP): Casa Supersizes for CCAP C100G Chassis To Take on Arris, Cisco, CommScope and Harmonic in the CCAP SweepstakesBy Jeff Baumgartner, Multichannel News - May 28, 2013 » www.multichannel.com/tec ··· p/143522 |
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Since Comcast is a known buyer of ARRIS and Cisco, do you think they would even bother buying from Casa or stick with what they know and wait for ARRIS and Cisco to roll out.
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said by Chris 313:Since Comcast is a known buyer of ARRIS and Cisco, do you think they would even bother buying from Casa or stick with what they know and wait for ARRIS and Cisco to roll out. IDK, as was stated in this article » www.lightreading.com/hea ··· 40144661 about Comcast's CCAP operational-readiness trial: quote: "To get ready for some small-scale deployments in 2013 and a broader rollout in 2014, Comcast conducted a six-month CCAP operational-readiness trial earlier this year with Cisco Systems Inc. and another vendor that the operator has yet to disclose.
said by Chris 313:Also, with all the equipment out their, wouldn't it be smarter to choose one manufacturer for everything? It's dangerous to put all of your eggs in one basket. Most service providers use at least 2 suppliers for their network equipment, in case something should happen to one of them, and also to bid one against the other for price. |
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said by telcodad:said by Chris 313:Since Comcast is a known buyer of ARRIS and Cisco, do you think they would even bother buying from Casa or stick with what they know and wait for ARRIS and Cisco to roll out. IDK, as was stated in this article » www.lightreading.com/hea ··· 40144661 about Comcast's CCAP operational-readiness trial: quote: "To get ready for some small-scale deployments in 2013 and a broader rollout in 2014, Comcast conducted a six-month CCAP operational-readiness trial earlier this year with Cisco Systems Inc. and another vendor that the operator has yet to disclose.
said by Chris 313:Also, with all the equipment out their, wouldn't it be smarter to choose one manufacturer for everything? It's dangerous to put all of your eggs in one basket. Most service providers use at least 2 suppliers for their network equipment, in case something should happen to one of them, and also to bid one against the other for price. I'm reading through things now. Wonder what this CCAP thing means for customers like us? Quicker speed rollouts, better reliability? I'd probably switch back to Comcast TV if they didn't take years to roll out new boxes, guide updates, etc. And yeah, I could understand about not putting all your eggs in one basket, but you gotta wonder that they'd have planned for problems and ways to prevent them? (Or were you talking about one getting bought out?) The bidding war, I can also understand. Everyone wants your business and the best pricing, eh? |
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Looks like Comcast is going with ARRIS's E6000 Converged Edge Router for CCAP: Comcast Picks Arris CCAP, Video Gateway Gear MSO Starts to Deploy the E6000, Will Roll XG1 Gateway in Q3By Jeff Baumgartner, Multichannel News - June 10, 2013 » www.multichannel.com/cab ··· r/143804EDIT: ARRIS press release: » phx.corporate-ir.net/pho ··· =1828536Also see: » www.fiercecable.com/pres ··· e-router |
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At this week's Cable Show, Comcast demonstrated a 3 Gbps downstream data rate delivered over a DOCSIS HFC network: Comcast shows off a 3 gigabit broadband connection. Thats fast!By Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM - June 11, 2013 » gigaom.com/2013/06/11/co ··· ts-fast/Comcast press release: » www.businesswire.com/new ··· roadbandOn DSL Reports: » Comcast Demonstrates 3 Gbps Cable Connection [68] comments |
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While this is impressive it means nothing to me and you in the real world.
That is a short distance, no load, not shared test...
Many areas have 50-70+ homes on one feed. Even if you can say that sucker could do 5Gbps. Say, 30 users out of the 70+ get your faster plans. Not enough exists for everyone still :P |
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CableLabs ultra-broadband demo at the Cable ShowSome details on the CableLabs HFC DOCSIS ultra-broadband HSI demo at the Cable Show: Cable Show: CableLabs Kicks Tires on Ultra HD Industry's R&D consortium also demos next-generation cable modem tech running at up to 6 GbpsBy Todd Spangler, Variety - June 11, 2013 » variety.com/2013/digital ··· 0495345/quote: In addition, CableLabs is staging two broadband demos, one showing up to 6 gigabit per second download speedsdelivered over coaxial cable. The industry has maintained that it doesnt need an expensive fiber-to-the-home buildout, like the networks Google Fiber is deploying, to deliver very high Internet connections.
However, to achieve the speeds, the cable modems would consume the bulk of the spectrum on a typical cable system.
In the first demo, a cable modem based on the current DOCSIS 3.0 spec is delivering 4.6 gigabits per second over 768 MHz. The other demo uses the still-in-development DOCSIS 3.1 specification, with silicon from Broadcom, to deliver 6 Gbps in 750 MHz.
This is dispelling the question, Is DOCSIS 3.1 real? said McKinney, formerly CTO of HPs Personal Systems division who joined CableLabs last year.
Chipsets for DOCSIS 3.1 are expected in early 2014, with products ready for cable operators to roll out starting in 2015, according to CableLabs.
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More information on how the Gigabit speeds were achieved with DOCSIS equipment: Cable Show: Gigabit DOCSIS? Yeah, we can do thatBy Brian Santo, CED Magazine - June 11, 2013 » www.cedmagazine.com/news ··· -do-thatquote: In the 3.0 demo, CableLabs was bonding 128 channels (using four 32-channel cable modems) to crank out in excess of 4 Gbps in a total of 768 MHz. Gigabits, unequivocally, yes.
The 3.1 specification is far from done, but it is certain the spec will include OFDM modulation and LDPC error correction. So in a demo that relied on those two technologies, CableLabs was pushing data at a clip in excess of 6 Gbps, but in only 650 MHz, the better to show the spectral efficiency inherent in the move to OFDM.
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Re: Comcast's CCAP Deployment PlansA follow-up article from Stacey Higginbotham on GigaOM: Heres how cable will hit gigabit speeds and create a tricky business problem in the processBy Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM - June 11, 2013 » gigaom.com/2013/06/11/he ··· process/ |
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DOCSIS 3.1 DemoA report on the CableLabs demo of pre-production DOCSIS 3.1 equipment at this week's Cable Show: Cable Show 2013: CableLabs Shows Off DOCSIS 3.1s Potential Demo of Pre-Production Hardware Pumps Out 6 Gigabits Per SecondBy Jeff Baumgartner, Multichannel News - Juen 12, 2013 » www.multichannel.com/dis ··· l/143873 |
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Re: Comcast's CCAP Deployment PlansAn MCN "Bauminator" blog entry today on Cisco's new integrated CCAP system called the cBR-8: Cisco Tips its Integrated CCAPBy Jeff Baumgartner, Multichannel News - June 14, 2013 » www.multichannel.com/blo ··· ted-ccap |
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A good article about the Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP) on the CED Magazine site: Deploying CCAP: Not just another box swapBy Jorge Salinger and Ty Pearman, CED Magazine - June 18, 2013 » www.cedmagazine.com/arti ··· box-swap |
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Re: DOCSIS 3.1 DemoThe latest news on DOCSIS 3.1: SCTE, CABLELABS PARTNER ON DOCSIS 3.1 SYMPOSIUM IN CONJUNCTION WITH SCTE CABLE-TEC EXPO 2013Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) Press Release - June 20, 2013 » www.scte.org/scte_cablel ··· ae_2013/and Cable-Tec Expo To Spotlight DOCSIS 3.1 SCTE, CableLabs To Team on Pre-Conference Event Focused on the Budding Multi-Gigabit PlatformBy Jeff Baumgartner, Multichannel News - June 20, 2013 » www.multichannel.com/tec ··· 1/144013EDIT: An article about this on the FierceCable site also: » www.fiercecable.com/stor ··· 13-06-21 |
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Re: CableLabs ultra-broadband demo at the Cable ShowIn response to a competitors fiber-optic HSI service, last week a Netherlands MSO fired up an HFC DOCSIS (3.1) 500 Mbps downstream service: UPC Netherlands ramps broadband to 500 MbpsBy Mike Robuck, CED Magazine - June 21, 2013 » www.cedmagazine.com/news ··· 500-mbpsquote: "We had to build a special modem because (DOCSIS) 3.1 chips arent out yet. We had to double up on the chips in the modem and put it out there because we had to have a competing product, if anything just in the press. That was a reaction but that tells you how quickly in a marketplace that something can move.
Warga said the cable modem was capable of bonding 16 channels, but UPC Netherlands was currently bonding more than that. : I know a few executives have it (500 Mbps) in their homes, but from there I dont know who is going to sign up for it, Warga said. But youre right, our biggest product is still 25 megs for 25 euros. Not too many ask for more, but in countries where theres not a lot of FTTH but theres fiber deep we do over 120 Mbps service. Theyll (the competition) will come in and say theyre 100, or 101 well come back and say were 110 or 120, or 130. Its a bit of a cat and mouse game, but we always feel like we can be ahead. For us 3.1 cant come soon enough.
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And here's the corresponding techinical specsheet for it: Touchstone DOCSIS 3.0 Dual Band Concurrent Wireless Telephony Gateway with MoCA - TG1672G» www.arrisi.com/product_c ··· UL13.pdf |
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lol! Right after I edit my post and put the product specs you post it. Seriously, within one minute :P. Kinda weird how the timing happened lol. Too bad these threads don't update edits real-time as they do with new posts. Also, I'm curious if Comcast will roll out this gateway(With the usual Comcast gateway look) along with the two others? Seems like it matches them. |
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I couldn't find this model on the FCC site but I did find THIS Xfinity branded 24x8 Arris... Arris MG2402G/CT Media Gateway » apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/r ··· D2402GCT» www.ncube.com/product_ca ··· UN13.pdfDownstream: "Up to 16 or 24 channels" Upstream: "Up to 8 channels" 24x8 .. tada Looks VERY interesting based on the photos... SD card, cable card, moca, two USB, eSATA.... "Hard Disk Drive: 2.5 up to 2 TB" "Diagnostic LEDs: Power, US/DS, Online, Ethernet, WiFi, Tel 1, Tel 2, Battery, RECORD" |
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said by Darknessfall:lol! Right after I edit my post and put the product specs you post it. Seriously, within one minute :P. Kinda weird how the timing happened lol. Too bad these threads don't update edits real-time as they do with new posts.
Also, I'm curious if Comcast will roll out this gateway(With the usual Comcast gateway look) along with the two others? Seems like it matches them. Yes, LOL. It looks similar to their (non-voice) 8x4 gateway with the Moto label (SGB6782) shown in this other recent thread: » New Modem Out |
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Re: Comcast's CCAP Deployment PlansARRIS announced today that its new E6000 Converged Edge Router (CER) for CCAP is now generally available: Arris ramps production on new flagship CMTSBy Brian Santo, CED Magazine - July 17, 2013 » www.cedmagazine.com/news ··· hip-cmtsThe ARRIS press release: » phx.corporate-ir.net/pho ··· =1838515EDIT: Article about this on the LRC site: » www.lightreading.com/cab ··· 40158520 |
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Harmonic is now shipping their NSG Pro CCAP product: Harmonic CCAP Shipments Get Underway First Orders Head Out as Vendor Grapples With an Edge QAM Sales SlumpBy Jeff Baumgartner, Multichannel News - July 26, 2013 » www.multichannel.com/dis ··· y/144584quote: Harmonics first CCAP-pointing product is the NSG Pro. Under Harmonics roadmap, the NSG Pro is starting out as a downstream-only device that looks like a massive edge QAM. Harmonic will later tack on the routing, upstream and CMTS components to make the NSG Pro a fully integrated CCAP. : Comcast, one of CCAPs champions, was Harmonics largest customer in the second quarter, representing 11% of revenue. No other customer represented more than 10% of Harmonics revenue in the period.
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