SCTE Canadian Summit: RFoG deployments offer clear advantages for cablecos

TORONTO – What’s not to like about RfoG, asked speakers at the SCTE Canadian Summit Tuesday morning at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre?Suppliers, of course, offered a number of compelling reasons for cable operators to deploy Radio Frequency over Glass technology as a way to reduce operating costs while extending the capacity of their existing hybrid fibre-coaxial infrastructures. As explained by Mike Emmendorfer, senior director of solution architecture and strategy for Arris, RFoG leverages traditional HFC components already in place, increases both upstream and downstream bandwidth capacity, supports DOCSIS services, enables easy migration to Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) and...