TORONTO — Quebec cable operator Coopérative de Câblodistribution de L’Arrière-Pays (CCAP) has boosted its top-end broadband speed by 10 times, to multi-gigabit when needed, to keep up with increasing customer demand, vendor Adara Technologies announced this week.
With approximately 20,000 subscribers, the cable co-operative distributes telecom and cable services in communities in the Quebec City region. With Adara’s Bandwidth Reclamation Solution, CCAP now has the capacity to boost broadband speeds but also to roll out almost 50 more HD and UHD/4K channels, increasing its set-top box offering to 190 HD/4K video channels, with capability to add more each quarter going forward, says Adara in a press release.
The Adara Solution “provides us with the significant headroom to immediately increase our High-Speed Internet offerings and, at the same time, enable our transition to a dependable IPTV service delivered reliably over DOCSIS,” said Stéphane Arseneau, CCAP’s general manager, in the release.
“Over the past several years which we have partnered with CCAP, our unified goal has been to deliver worry-free bandwidth-on-demand,” said Joseph Nucara, CEO and co-founder of Adara. “This has permitted CCAP to focus on customer experience differentiation like increased broadband capacity and IPTV migration rather than, every year, wasting valuable resources in search of more bandwidth. And especially now, in response to the many changes brought about by this pandemic, operators need shorter-term plays that can respond more aggressively to increased bandwidth requirements while at the same time insuring little to no customer disruption. Our SIPV Bandwidth Reclamation Solution answers all those requirements.”
Adara’s solution quickly frees up significant amounts of operator bandwidth so it can be immediately used for multi-Gigabit broadband expansion using DOCSIS 3.0, 3.1 or 4.0 (full duplex), says the press release.
“While it is already leveraging the incremental bandwidth provided by the Adara solution footprint-wide using DOCSIS 3.0, it has further upgraded lines serving 1,500 of those homes to DOCSIS 3.1, with plans to bring the rest of its network to DOCSIS 3.1 by mid-2022,” wrote the Adara spokesperson in an email to Cartt.ca.
