5 Ways DOCSIS Networks are Changing

Posted by on Nov 14, 2018 The cable industry’s DOCSIS networks are again in transition. A panel organized by Broadband Technology Report on Wed, Oct. 24, at this year’s SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo captured several impending changes. One reason for these options is the flexibility of DOCSIS, which has already undergone considerable evolution. Another is the stability of DOCSIS 3.1, the latest version. “It’s worked better...
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CBRS: The 3.5 GHz Wireless Revival

Posted by on Nov 10, 2018 At trade shows it is now common for scheduled talks occur on the show floor. At the year’s SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo in Atlanta Ga, on Tues., Oct 23, the floor-based Innovation Theater featured execs from ARRIS and ARRIS subsidiary Ruckus Wireless for a discussion of 3.5 GHz band Citizens Band Radio Service (CBRS). Expo organizers named this session “CBRS: The Future is Here.” And this future...
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Does Network Virtualization Make Your Head Spin?

Posted by on Nov 1, 2018 For nearly two decades, I’ve tracked trends at the SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo. This year’s event in Atlanta provided many chances to do so, including the Light Reading breakfast session on “Virtualizing the Cable Architecture.” My high-level takeaway from this Oct 23 gathering: Virtualization is in a holding pattern, at least as far as cable is concerned. It is not surprising that an industry once...
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A Tale of Two (or more) DevOps Reports

Posted by on Sep 18, 2018 A recent email from IT automation software company Puppet plugged its 2018 State of DevOps Report. Because this topic is important to many companies I write for (and because I read last year’s report), I downloaded a copy. A few things stood out. First, authorship. Puppet and machine-data software company Splunk present this year’s report. There are three authors from Puppet and one from...
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CenturyLink Hosts RVA Tech on Tap

Posted by on Aug 18, 2018 “No drink, no ink” – that’s the classic line of an old-school journalist meeting a source at the local bar. So full disclosure up front: I did have a beer at the RVA Tech on Tap gathering on Aug 16, at the Three Notch’d Brewing Co and Collab House. But I paid $10 to attend. That makes my drink mostly a wash between me and the event’s sponsor, CenturyLink. CenturyLink is still interesting...
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Intel Pitches Optane for Content Delivery

Posted by on May 16, 2018 The Content Delivery Summit, hosted by StreamingMedia.com in New York City on May 7, provided a stage for chip maker Intel to discuss a storage technology that it developed several years ago with Micron and later branded as Optane. The pitch was a head-turner for a few reasons. First, let’s underscore a point. Intel was talking memory and storage, not micro-processing or CPUs, with which...
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