SCTE Canadian Summit: DOCSIS 3.0 implementers share the benefit of their experience

TORONTO – With the advantage of hindsight, Cogeco Cable and vendor Arris Group shared some lessons from their DOCSIS 3.0 implementations with attendees during a session Wednesday at the SCTE Canadian Summit.According to Steven Krapp, Arris’ director of product management, some of those key considerations are related to spectrum, output power, noise funnelling and combining loss. Krapp’s first recommendation is that organizations use downstream channel bonding – available as 4-channel bonding today, but 8-, 16- and 24-channel bonding capabilities are on the product horizon, he said. One advantage to DOCSIS 3.0 channel bonding is that dynamic load balancing can be...