The Future of Cable – Episode 25 of the Connect This! Show

Join us live on Thursday, November 11th at 5pm ET for Episode 25 of the Connect This! Show, where co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Glen Atkins and Ron Hranac (former Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco) to talk about the future of hybrid fiber-coaxil (HFC) network infrastructure.  Cable began as a one way video distribution system, but has enjoyed a long life as the result of new specification standards, encoding schemes, and the result of pushing fiber farther and farther into the network. The panel will talk about DOCSIS and the move from the 3.1 standard to 4.0, which will enable symmetrical gigabit speeds to users and more households served at the highest speed tiers. They’ll also dig into the pantheon of other hardware and system upgrades used by cable operators, from low latency DOCSIS to virtualized cable modem termination system (vCMTS).  With so much fiber being built in 2021 and beyond, how much life is left in the cable plant?  Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us [email protected] with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here or below on YouTube Live, via Facebook Live here, or follow Christopher on Twitter to watch there.