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Get Your Tech On — 140 episodes

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75 ohm in coaxial cable

2

SCTE EXPO 2025 Recap

3

Turning My vCMTS into a PON OLT – Live Fiber Demo with multi-Gbps ONU Speed Test!

4

PTPless vCMTS

5

SC-QAM

6

ANGACOM 2025 Recap: Fiber Domination, Low Latency DOCSIS, and Charter-Cox Merger Insights

7

AI: for 10G Reliability

8

Reddits Top DOCSIS Troubleshooting Questions Answered

9

DOCSIS 3.1 OFDM Field Measurements

10

Mastering Cable Upstream RF Troubleshooting for DOCSIS Pros

11

DOCSIS 3.1 Performance and Impairment Priority

12

RF network AMA

13

Precision Impairment Location with OFDM & OFDMA Channel Estimation

14

Qualifying Network Performance and Impairment Priority

15

Tips, Tricks and what not to do in your RF network

16

Unleash Ultra-Fast Internet: Low Latency DOCSIS Explained

17

Understanding Unity Gain

18

How HFC Networks Keep Up with Today’s Broadband Demands: Amplifiers, Coax, and More!

19

DOCSIS 3.1 & 4.0 Demos, AI Insights, and vCMTS Innovations from SCTE TechExpo24

20

Upcoming Tech in Our 100th Episode and DOCSIS 3.1

21

Very big and very small numbers

22

Broadband Insights

23

Coaxial Cable Impedance, Attenuation and Beyond

24

Upgrading Your HFC Plant For The Next 5 Years

25

Pillars of Network Maintenance

26

The half-wave dipole antenna

27

DOCSIS 3.1 understanding capacity calculator

28

Myth of capacitance effect

29

DOCSIS 3.1 Deep Dive: OFDM vs. SC-QAM, Upstream Bonding, and Troubleshooting Tips

30

What is Signal Leakage Field Strength? Back to Basics in HFC

31

Beneath the Surface: Exploring Skin Effect and Depth in Coaxial Cables

32

What is RF?

33

DOCSIS 4 or stay with Docsis 3.1?

34

Navigating the Ingress Labyrinth: Management, Mitigation, and Mastery (Part 2)

35

Into the Ingress Abyss: Understanding Leaks, Causes, and Consequences

36

Managing DOCSIS 3.1 Channel Bonding: Ensuring Optimal Performance

37

Distortion, Signal Leakage, Codewords and more – Did you know?

38

SNR (RxMER) and DOCSIS 3.1 Modems

39

Did You Know? DOCSIS: Back to Basics and Clearing Misconceptions

40

UTSC

41

Introduction to Carrier-to-Noise: Learning the Basics

42

Putting the Decibel to Work

43

Cable Operators’ Mastering the DOCSIS 3.1 to 4.0 Transition for Next-Level Networks!

44

Signal Level

45

Did You Know? Balancing Amplifiers and Other Critical Broadband Concepts

46

Why should PNM be on your mind?

47

What is a dB?

48

OUDP Leakage Detection

49

OFDMA Capacity Estimation

50

What is Possible with a DOCSIS 3.1 Modem Today

51

DOCSIS Softwarization in a DAA and Virtualized Network

52

Understanding Cable Network RF Return Path Signal Levels and Balancing

53

Full Band Capture Troubleshooting by Impairment Type

54

Technology Questions Answered SNR, OFDMA and more

55

Cable Next Gen Highlights, DOCSIS 3.1, DOCSIS 4.0 Roadmap

56

Upstream Transmit Power with OFDMA

57

House amps, Cable Modems with filter issues

58

PTP Clocks

59

SCTE EXPO 2021 Wrap-up

60

Interpreting Full Band Capture and RxMER

61

Cisco vCMTS

62

DOCSIS Primary Channel Impaired Downstream Troubleshooting

63

Dynamic Range Window OFDMA Troubleshooting

64

The Road to DOCSIS 4.0

65

OFDMA Troubleshooting

66

NanoVNA testing Taps, Coax, passives and more part two

67

NanoVNA testing Taps, Coax, passives and more part one

68

OFDMA 204 MHz Upstream

69

Virtualization a Deeper Dive Special Series Part Three

70

Plant Powering

71

SCTE EXPO Highlights – What Rocked

72

PNM services and benefits to Cable Operators

73

Gain Distortion and Hybrids

74

Rocking PNM

75

Virtualization a Deeper Dive Special Series Part Two

76

Networks need to evolve to support demand

77

Virtualization a Deeper Dive Special Series

78

DOCSIS 4.0 frequency split and extended spectrum

79

DOCSIS 3.1 and WiFi 6 – How fast can you go?

80

DOCSIS 3.1 Upstream OFDMA

81

Do T3 Timeouts Impact My Service?

82

Plant Balancing in Distributed Access Architecture- Part Two

83

Plant Balancing in Distributed Access Architecture

84

Capacity Challenges Created by COVID-19

85

DOCSIS 3.1 Channel Bonding

86

Misunderstood RF Measurements

87

DOCSIS Evolution

88

DAA Pros and Cons

89

Technology Trends In Cable

90

DOCSIS Cable Connector Basics

91

DOCSIS 3.1 Upstream

92

T3 & T4 Timeouts Cable Modem Registration – Back to Basics

93

Low Latency and Virtualization

94

DOCSIS 3.1 and FDX

95

PNM Round Table with Brady Volpe, Comcast, CableLabs, Cisco

96

R-PHY / DAA Round Table follow up with Brady Volpe, Arris, Cisco and Harmonic

97

Broadband Tech Talk Friday

98

R-PHY and Orchestration with ARRIS, CISCO and Brady Volpe

99

UpStream levels for DOCSIS 3.0, DOCSIS 3.1

100

ANGACOM | FDX, R-PHY and Big Data

101

10 GiG Over Coax

102

MAC-PHY! When to MAC-PHY vs R-PHY

103

Spectrum Analysis Everywhere

104

Cable Access SDN Orchestration

105

R-PHY or Remote PHY – Doesn’t Matter How you Say It.  The Hype is Real

106

PNM Further Enhances Troubleshooting in the New Age of Test Equipment in Broadband Cable

107

What about IP Video IPTV and DOCSIS?

108

New Tech in Cable and SCTE EXPO 2017 Recap

109

Virtual CCAP in the “hic et nunc”

110

DOCSIS CMTS Suggestions, Best Practices and Recommendations Part 3

111

Virtual CCAP – Technology Recap R-PHY, FDX, IPTV and NDF/NDR

112

Remote PHY – What is All the Hype?

113

DOCSIS CMTS Best Practices Recommendations Part 2

114

Future Field Operations Technologies Cable

115

DOCSIS CMTS Suggestions, Best Practices and Recommendations

116

DOCSIS 3.1 Downstream and Upstream

117

Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM) with Larry Wolcott, Leader at Comcast’s Next Gen Technology Group

118

Top Reasons Cable Modems are not Getting Expected Speed and CMTS Monitoring

119

DOCSIS 3.1 Clearing Up Misconceptions

120

RF Measurements in the Cable Plant

121

Operator Perspective of Technology Advancements in Cable

122

May the Force be with Operational Challenges, Industry Trends, DOCSIS 3.1 and Star Wars

123

Operational Challenges – DOCSIS CMTS Challenges to Operators

124

DOCSIS 3.1, PNM – SCTE CABLE TECH EXPO REVIEW 2015

125

CableLabs interop DOCSIS 3.1 Channel Bonding

126

WPA exploits as well as WiFi security flaws

127

ANGACOM, DOCSIS 3.1, PNM, Wifi and Next Generation TV review

128

INTX The Internet & Television Expo Review – Episode 12

129

DOCSIS Internet Security – internet security and recommended best practices Episode 11

130

Downstream Full Band Capture and CableLabs Winter Conferance- Episode 10

131

Full Band Capture a Spectrum Analyzer in DOCSIS Cable Modem Episode 9

132

DOCSIS Load Balancing Continued Episode 8

133

Load Balancing DOCSIS 3.1

134

SCTE EXPO 2014 Technology Review Episode 6

135

DOCSIS 3.1 Backwards Compatible – Episode 5

136

DOCSIS 3.0 Upstream and Downstream Channel Bonding

137

DOCSIS Channel Bonding Episode 3

138

DOCSIS Pre-Equalization Part Two Episode 2

139

DOCSIS Pre-Equalization

140

DOCSIS 3.0 Channel Bonding – Episode 3