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Author
Shane Eleniak
As MSOs strive to provide customers with cutting-edge services, they are moving away from standard cable services. In order to remain competitive, they must expand their service offerings and deploy state-of-the-art technology that supports their customers’ ever-increasing demand for new and higher bandwidth services. These technologies must:
- support the migration to higher bandwidth and IP based services
- eliminate service disruptions
- lower operating expenditures by reducing labor, power and cooling
One way for MSOs to accomplish this is to deploy a universal, wideband edge QAM solution. Deploying a wideband edge QAM solution allows operators to provide their consumers with advanced services today. From this universal platform, MSOs can deliver QAM channels that can beconfigured as any service—DOCSIS®, broadcast video, Switched Digital Video or Video On-Demand. Universal also means significantly reducing the amount of equipment and rack space in the hub and lowering power and HVAC costs.
CommScope believes its award-winningLxS-16016 Wideband Edge QAM solution is unique in allowing operators to add individual QAM channels anywhere within the full 54 MHz to 1 GHz band using just software tools. There are no frequency bands or blocks of QAMs to manage; no disrupting services with re-cabling or reconfiguration when adding or changing QAM channels. This feature makes it easier and faster to roll out services, since QAM channels are added in minutes instead of weeks.
A wideband edge QAM solution’s architecture allows complete individual frequency agility. A QAM channel can be placed anywhere in the band and its channel agility simplifies MSO frequency management. Along with service convergence and wideband QAM management, the LxS-16016 is designed from the ground up with carrier-class redundancy, providing for 99.999 percent availability.
Can your QAM do that?
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