DOCSIS CMTS Systems

Wed Jul 29 14:59:16 UTC 2015

Seriously nice solutions...both of them.

--Curtis

On 7/29/2015 10:49 AM, frnkblk at iname.com wrote:
> Colton,
>
> While we have never tried it ourselves, an option we've looked at in similar situations are these:
> http://www.ready-links.com/ipc1840c.html
> http://www.bectechnologies.net/main/EoCoax2310.shtml (up to 31 endpoints)
>
> Frank
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Colton Conor
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 8:27 AM
> To: NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>; Scott Helms <khelms at zcorum.com>
> Subject: DOCSIS CMTS Systems
>
> We are servicing more MDU customers that have older buildings. There is no
> CAT5E installed, so extremely old phone cable or coaxial TV cable seems to
> be our only inside wire options. There is no easy and inexpensive way to
> run new cable, so we must deal with what is available.
>
> We are very familiar with the VDSL2 offerings to be able to use the phone
> cable, but know nothing about CMTS solutions available.DOCSIS 3.0 capable
> modems seem to be much more inexpensive than VDSL2 capable modems.
>
> We are looking for recommendations on small CMTS systems for MDU's. I would
> expect we would want at least DOCSIS 3.0 capabilities, and I assume DOCSIS
> 3.1 is too new and expensive to deploy on a small scale (think 50 to 200
> units per property). We would need the full solution to manage and maintain
> such an offering.
>
> I was thinking something like this might be a good fit:
> http://www.picodigital.com/product-details.php?ID=miniCMTS200a which is
> available new for $4500 online.
>
> For those of you deploying CMTS systems what do you use and recommend?
>
> I am not sure if there is a cable equivalent list to NANOG, but if so
> please let me know.
>
>

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