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When you’re blazing new trails, it can be enlightening to speak with someone who has trod a similar path. So my recent chat with Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard, whose innovation of the cable modem catapulted cable from entertainment to communications, was timely – especially...

When AOL dial-up service is discontinued next Tuesday, the date couldn’t be more fitting. As the beeps, the boops, and the screeches  of modems connecting to the Internet are silenced for the last time September 30, many of the biggest names in telecommunications will...

We’ve been optimizing broadband network performance for 15 years now and we’ve been awed throughout by the feats of our customers’ engineering teams – creating networks that have powered the broadband revolution, withstood pandemic surges, and are now accommodating...

Let’s talk QoN. And no, that’s not a typo. Sure, QoE is the success metric that most often rolls off broadband tongues, but Quality of Experience is only part of the story. While QoE is significant as a benchmark for many factors – speed, customer support, the...

Broadband providers are presently facing difficult decisions. What’s new, huh? Rapidly evolving broadband technologies are reshaping the view of how growing demand for broadband capacity can be addressed. However, fiscally responsible broadband providers must consider...

Swimming in the surging torrent of cable broadband upstream demand is no easy task. Around every turn lurk threats to quality of service and consumer satisfaction: High traffic volumes can congest constrained upstream plant. Ingress, noise and other impairments can...

When your business is delivering data, data can help your business deliver. That may sound like a no-brainer, but it dovetails neatly with what’s happening in today’s broadband cable environment. Forward-thinking providers are racing to aggregate and analyze data that...

Not all PMA is created equal. As broadband providers shift emphasis from speed to Quality of Experience, an essential new capability is the customization of modulation profiles for each modem based on current network conditions. The smart folks at CableLabs® created...

Chalk up another dimension – award-winning Sustainability that can slash CO2 emissions by 50% – to OpenVault’s new Vantage solution. While Vantage has turned heads for its ability to meet key industry needs – Proactive Network Maintenance with Alarming, Profile...