Cable-Tec Expo 2019

Innovations in Distributed Access Architectures: Switch-on-a-Pole and the Intelligent Edge (Room 211-213)

01 Oct 19
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Tracks: Converged Networks and Mobility

Speaker(s): Chris Busch, Co-Chair Open WiFi, Telecom Infra Project; Venk Mutalik, Comcast Fellow, Comcast;

Moderator(s): Robert Gaydos, Comcast Fellow, Comcast

As the number of subscribers-per-node decreases, the cost-per-subscriber increases, requiring an architecture that maximizes invested capital while allowing for flexible adaption of new technologies. This session will explore Comcast’s use of grey optical aggregation (GOA) nodes and a low power, environmentally-hardened “Switch On A Pole” (SOAP), which muxes multiple 10G DWDM Ethernet links and leverages coherent optical links of 100Gbps to extend the headend into the outside plant and as close to customers as possible – while lowering the cost of DOCSIS-based DAA networks. Additionally, CommScope will explain the nuts-and-bolts of deploying more R-PHY devices per technician, and how investments in distributed access architecture (DAA) equipment can be leveraged to deploy other DAA device types and services by adding intelligence to the edge of the network through service orchestration and intent-based network modeling.