When network problems surface, are you able to quickly identify and address the issues to keep your network performing optimally? Understanding network traffic and how it flows is essential when trying to resolve issues, or even when analyzing the [...]
Have you ever gotten a phone call from what looks like a familiar number only to answer and find out that it's a call about your car warranty or some other potential scam? If you have, then you've probably been a victim of Caller ID spoofing where [...]
In its efforts to continue bridging the digital divide, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) has created several initiatives injecting millions (now billions) into bringing broadband access to unserved areas in America. Taking cues from the [...]
There is a lot of promise in 5G as a much faster, lower-latency mobile broadband technology. Much of the excitement has been based around millimeter wave (mmWave). While this will allow for a very fast wireless connection, a drawback to this [...]
CBRS marks a turning point in shared spectrum, allowing general access users to deploy private LTE based solutions of their own, and opening up valuable mid-band spectrum for 5G use.
Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) is a 150 MHz wide [...]
At the Consumer Electronics Show in January of last year CableLabs announced their 10G initiative. The goal is to make changes in DOCSIS technology and cable plant architecture to allow for 10 Gbps transfer rates both downstream AND upstream, in [...]
Nowadays, over the top TV and video on demand streaming are the main drivers for additional bandwidth to your subscribers. And you can add to this the content and applications such as video surveillance, remote health care, video file transfers, [...]
New technology is offering a lifeline for bandwidth pressed providers. A shift in the access architecture that will move some or all of the CMTS processing layers out to the plant and closer to the subscriber will increase capacity and expand the [...]
As a cable operator you have to do a lot of path monitoring to gauge the health of your plant. Most often the problems are in the upstream signals, but the downstream, while typically a “cleaner” set of frequencies, has challenges of its own and is [...]
The buzz in the broadband industry these days is 5G. That’s not G as in Gigabytes. That’s G as in Generation. 5G is the latest generation of cellular technology, and some say that it could replace the need for wired broadband connections in the [...]