TORONTO — Adara Technologies announced earlier this month that a public utility in Tennessee that provides high-speed Internet, video and telephone services to homes and businesses is the latest service provider to deploy Adara’s Switched IP Video (SIPV) Bandwidth Reclamation Solution for DOCSIS expansion.
The Tennessee operator, which has asked to remain nameless for competitive reasons, also provides commercial data services and wide area networks for businesses in the area and passes approximately 17,000 homes, says Adara’s press release.
Adara’s solution leverages “codec-awareness”, a feature that distinguishes between MPEG2- and MPEG4-capable set-top boxes, which enables the bandwidth efficiencies of MPEG4 without the need for a forklift replacement of remaining MPEG2 set-top boxes, says the release. In addition, the solution 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).
“The industry is responding to the many changes brought about by this pandemic,” said Joseph Nucara, CEO and co-Founder of Adara. “Service providers are rethinking the adequacy of longer-term plays like the deployment of distributed access architecture (DAA) and virtual converged cable access platforms (CCAP) as well as newer remote PHY devices. Now they need shorter-term plays that can respond more aggressively to increased bandwidth requirements while at the same time insuring little to no customer disruption.”
