Planning for DOCSIS 3.0 – NOW!

Presented by Communications Technology and JDSU

Tuesday, December 9 , 2008
11:00 a.m. (ET)                                                                                        

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• Speakers  
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• Questions? 

In this one hour Webcast John and Brady will discuss why planning for DOCSIS 3.0 now is imperative to mitigate potential issues when finally deployed. Before diving into DOCSIS 3.0, they will explain how to exploit the upstream capabilities that exist in DOCSIS 2.0 systems as well as their corresponding issues. Once a basis for adding more capacity for the upstream has been explained, additional downstream capacity in the form of DOCSIS 3.0 will be covered. Finally, the presentation will have a strong emphasis on how you make all of this work, and when it fails, how do you test & monitor it?

Some of the concepts to be covered include:

• 64QAM at 6.4 MHz bandwidth – what QAM levels are supported and how modulation profiles affect levels
• Monitoring, Testing, & Troubleshooting – proactive vs. reactive testing with a signal that is realistic
• Frequency stacking levels & placement
• Downstream frequency expansion to 1 GHz
• How to know if your return path is experiencing laser clipping when you migrate from one upstream channel to four upstream bonded channels 
• How to test the general health of your upstream and look for impairments such as micro-reflections, group delay, etc.
• Best practices that techs should know before and after problems arise

Speakers:

	Brady S. Volpe Director Systems Engineering and Design Verification JDSU
	John J. Downey Broadband Network Engineer Cisco Systems, Inc
	Jonathan Tombes Editor (Moderator) Communications Technology

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