VIAVI - Broadband Lounge
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Listen in to VIAVI and industry experts cover relevant technology topics to help service providers navigate through the technology maze. Learn what current and future challenges the industry is facing and the different approaches they are pursuing around the globe to solve them.
Listen in to VIAVI and industry experts cover relevant technology topics to help service providers navigate through the technology maze. Learn what current and future challenges the industry is facing and the different approaches they are pursuing around the globe to solve them.
Latest episode
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More than Moore’s – What Happens when Broadband Demand Exceeds Moore’s Law forecasts
In this episode, learn about the three main options that MSO’s have relied on to increase upstream capacity, and how each has evolved to remain viable as networks. This will lay the groundwork for follow-on episodes where each method will be... -
Doing the Splits – How DAA Enables Ongoing Node Splits
Splitting nodes has been the go-to method of increasing broadband capacity available per-subscriber, but overflowing hubs create challenges to their use. Listen in to VIAVI experts discuss DAA types, how they overcome many MSO challenges, and... -
It’s a Stretch – Extending the Upstream via Mid/High Splits
Adding more carriers is an obvious way to increase upstream capacity, but what to do when your spectrum is full? In this episode, we’ll discuss the mid and high-split options and what it takes to successfully deploy them. -
Worth the Squeeze – Wringing More Bits/Hz Out of Your Upstream with OFDMA
By now OFDM is old hat to most of us, but OFDMA is finally being tapped to help get more capacity form every precious Hz of upstream spectrum. In this episode, VIAVI experts will share what we’ve learned from supporting MSO OFDMA deployments around.… -
What’s Next? – The Future of Broadband Capacity Challenges
We’ve covered the three main levers MSO’s have at their disposal to increase upstream capacity, but how will these play out over time? In this last episode of season 1, we’ll take out our crystal ball and discuss where we see the future of broadband… -
Signal Leakage, How Did We Get Here?
In this episode, John Bush with VIAVI interviews industry veteran Terry Bush regarding the challenges he faced in starting up cable systems in the 80’s, and how it drove development of innovative solutions. This interactive discussion covers the... -
Signal Leakage, How Did We Get Here (The Rest of the Story)
This episode concludes the discussion on how cable pioneers developed innovative but simple tools to find shielding weaknesses in their networks including inside of subscriber homes. The interactive discussion gives an inciteful view of how the... -
Tune In – Antenna Fundamentals for the Rest of Us
In this first of a two-episode segment, Trilithic/VIAVI leakage veteran Mark Darragh is joined by Ben Stelle, lead Engineer for VIAVI Leakage systems, to demystify how antennas work and take the discussion down to a level understandable by technician… -
Tune In Part 2 – The Future of Antennas
In this conclusion of the two-episode antenna segment, Ben and Mark will focus on recent antenna developments and how they have evolved to support wideband frequency capabilities of next-generation leakage meters. Numerous real-life examples are... -
New Reflections – How TDR’s Have Been Reinvented
TDR’s have long been part of the core toolset that Maintenance Techs rely on to do their jobs, but they haven’t really changed much in decades until recently. In this episode, Karl Oberlin from VIAVI will explain how the different types of TDR’s...