*This guy's tech jargon is truly extraordinary.
*The thing I like best about it is the knowing assumption on his part that his audience is totally up to speed on his topics – so much so that he can be rather wry-insider about it. How many people really get it about "bonding downstream channels to DOCSIS 3.0?" Hundreds of people? Thousands? Tens of thousands? Maybe it's only five guys – but if they're the right five guys, maybe that's enough.
http://www.lightreading.com/author.asp?section_id=222&doc_id=705412
"When Alan Breznick asked me to blog for Light Reading, I was unsure what to pontificate about.
"I could talk about how we can continue to utilize DOCSIS 3.0 for many years simply by bonding more downstream channels and getting up to 1 Gbit/s downstream, and maybe even move the split to 85 MHz so we could have up to 300 Mbit/s upstream. Our current analog lasers have a lot of useful life left in them as well. Every time we think we are ready to send our current technology to the retirement home, we figure out another way to keep it productive for us in serving new technologies to our customers.
"Yet another article on CCAP? Nah. As an industry, we have been CCAPed out for a while. We all understand how important CCAP is to the cable operator world to help with the reduction of space and power in the headend as we merge edge QAM modulators and CMTSs into a single chassis. We realize that reducing the complexity and intersection of the combiner network cuts linear impairments and helps with gaining back the much needed headroom for higher-order modulations. We understand that having a single chassis to manage will simplify our operation engineers’ efforts and maybe help get them some much needed sleep as we look for new technologies and services to further stress out their lives.
"Maybe I should talk about DOCSIS 3.1? Hmmm. DOCSIS 3.1, affectionately called D3.1 by its friends, is another game-changer technology. DOCSIS
