DOCSIS CMTS Systems

Wed Jul 29 15:31:21 UTC 2015

So the BEC solution I would assume is just standard MOCA or HPNA based as
it is max 200Mbps, but the Ready-Links solution claims 1Gbps. Has anyone
used the Ready-Links solution? Seem to good to be true.

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Curtis Maurand <cmaurand at xyonet.com> wrote:

> 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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