Cable-Tec Expo 2018

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Node Plus How Many? Current Events in FDX. (Room B406)

By now it’s a foregone conclusion that getting to Full Duplex DOCSIS requires no amplification after the node -- the “node+0” designation. But what if FDX could work on an HFC plant with one or even two amplifiers in cascade? Cisco’s John Chapman thinks so, and will deliver a paper about an “FDX Extender” that could save billions of dollars in infrastructure capex. Also: A deep dive from CableLabs’ Karthik Sundaresan into how to estimate upstream and downstream capacity for FDX channels -- at a moment in time when the context of a “channel” is again fragmenting.