Latest Cable/MSO Articles
Articles
What’s Next for Cable Business Services?
For cable operators, business services have been a key growth engine for years. Ciena’s Darren McKinney explains how cable MSOs m ...
Articles
What is Fiber Densification?
There is a new term that is increasingly cropping up in networking conversations: densification. Ciena’s Helen Xenos explains wha ...
Articles
What is a Converged Interconnect Network (CIN)?
The term, Converged Interconnect Network (CIN), has been around for a few years now – but it is only now with its importance in e ...
Articles
What do DAA, Network Slicing, Scaling Optical Net ...
Learn about all that Ciena has planned for the upcoming SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2020 Virtual Experience and the forward-looking topic ...
Articles
Virtualizing the World of Cable
It’s not surprising that cable operators are virtualizing their networks. Not only is it the logical step to reduce power and sav ...
Articles
Universal aggregation for Cable MSOs
In the second part of Wayne Hickey’s series on universal aggregation, he takes a look at Cable MSO networks, what they are, and h ...
Articles
Top 5 Takeaways from Light Reading’s CNG 2019 Con ...
Did the ‘bomb cyclone’ winter blizzard last week in Denver keep you from attending the annual Light Reading Cable Next-Gen (CNG) ...
Articles
Three takeaways from CableLabs Summer Conference’ ...
Ciena’s Chief Architect for the MSO Practice, Fernando Villarruel spent last week at the 19th annual – and last – CableLabs Summe ...
Articles
The Future of the Internet Is Fiber Deep
Aging coaxial plants, analog repeaters and limited spectrum make meeting customer demand for fast and reliable service a challeng ...
Articles
The evolving coherent optical networking landscap ...
Ciena’s Helen Xenos explains how network providers are now at an inflection point and must evaluate innovative approaches to elev ...
Articles
Spotlight on automation, scaling networks, and ge ...
While SCTE Expo 2020 is over, the valuable information shared lives on. Did you miss any of the important sessions or discussions ...
Articles
Speeding up the Network Edge with Fiber Deep
Ciena’s Wayne Hickey explains how changing user behaviors are driving the need for more symmetrical services to alleviate bandwid ...
Articles
Sharing Bandwidth with the Neighbors
Ciena's Wayne Hickey explains how Cable Operators can reduce sharing sizes to increase overall customer quality of experience.
Articles
SCTE Expo 2019 – the importance and opportunities ...
At the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo this year there were a few aspects of moving to 10G that stood out: the importance of low latency, the ...
Articles
Reducing the High Cost of Coaxial Cable
By driving optical fiber deeper, cable operators can improve performance and reliability, increase capacity, become eco-friendlie ...
Articles
Re-Sodding Cable MSO Brownfields
With an increase in demand for high-speed data, IP video, cloud computing, and business services, cable MSO brownfields need to u ...
Articles
Q&A: Learning More about CableLabs® New Coher ...
CableLabs recently released a specification for coherent optics that is a significant development to support Distributed Access A ...
Articles
Powering Cable’s Future with Distributed Access
It’s not surprising that cable operators are looking to Fiber Deep and DAA for their networks, not only is it the logical step to ...
Articles
Next-Gen OTT Video-Services' Massive Impact on Ne ...
OTT has fundamentally changed the cable and video industry. Is your network agile and flexible enough for the on-demand world of ...
Articles
Measure Twice, Cut Once: Fiber Deep Planning for ...
Ciena's Wayne Hickey details what Cable MSOs must consider when driving fiber deeper into their network.
Articles
Kit outdoors, on the corner, down the street
When it comes to designing any network, success depends on the ability to keep traffic flowing freely. The key to doing this is t ...
Articles
Is it Time to Speed up Packet Delay?
Faster broadband connections are the cure for packet delay right? Not necessarily, says Ciena's Wayne Hickey, who details the man ...
Articles
How Some Cable Operators Plan to Go Mobile
With increasingly fiber-based networks and millions of WiFi hotspots to leverage, some cable operators are considering being rese ...
Articles
How Service Electric Cablevision is scaling up it ...
To provide their communities and customers with the level of connectivity needed for today’s pace of business and life, Service E ...