How to Look Out for the Field in the DAA Transition
(Room B401/402)
23 Oct 18
2:15 PM
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3:15 PM
Tracks:
Wireline Networks: 10G and Beyond
The operational impacts of running DAA plant is the big focus of this double-header. Starting with the momentum around distributed architectures and fiber-deep -- is anyone talking to the field? Bob Gaydos kicks off this session with a look at the changes facing headend techs -- which, perhaps not surprisingly, are far from “business as usual.” What do you need to know, when it’s your job to sort out today’s nodes from tomorrow’s “service cores,” that provide DOCSIS flows, linear and on-demand video, and legacy set-top out-of-band data? Then, hear about a “fibre”-deep evaluation from the Great North, as Shaw’s Nader Foroughi explains how to think through getting to “n+0” -- when 75% of your plant consists of five amplifiers in cascade (or less, but still.) Expect a detailed analysis of capacity and projected future growth, over both N+0 and N+2 plant.