At the Cable Show 2014, Cisco will showcase the extension of Cisco’s Service Provider architecture for cable operators. It will also showcase innovations in video technology portfolio.
Cisco’s Service Provider architecture is designed to deliver more bandwidth, higher service tiers and agility in deploying new applications, while lowering operational expenses.
In addition, Cisco will make its service provider customer premise equipment (CPE) routing software available in open-source format. Among the beneficiaries will be the RDK Management for use with the Reference Design Kit (RDK) on future devices other than set-top boxes, such as modems, routers or converged gateways.
Besides new DOCSIS and optical networking capabilities, Cisco’s innovations apply the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and virtualization technologies recently introduced in the Cisco Evolved Services Platform (ESP) to virtualize, integrate and automate cable operators’ access architecture.
Cisco is showcasing enhancements to its uBR10012 CMTS that enable cable operators to deploy 1Gbps tiers across footprints. Cisco’s Terabit CCAP platform, the cBR-8, will leverage DOCSIS 3.1 to deliver 10Gbps access tiers.
The company said Cisco access architecture enables MSOs to address all customer segments via an integrated suite of access services, including DOCSIS, high speed FTTx, Service Provider Wi-Fi and Gigabit services. Cisco assists cable operators to blend these technologies into a single manageable network.
By applying SDN capabilities of the recently introduced Cisco ESP, Cisco will streamline operational procedures.
Cable operators manage residential, commercial and wholesale services via multiple autonomous systems. Cisco is applying its Evolved Service Platform to integrate and orchestrate these separate systems.
Using the Evolved Service Platform can reduce the costs of operating integrated networks by up to 77 percent, while reducing time to market by 73 percent.
At the Cable Show 2014, Cisco is showcasing how the Cisco ESP helps MSOs create and deliver virtualized applications such as parental controls for consumers and end-to-end provisioning for business services.
Using the virtualization capabilities of the Cisco ESP to deliver existing and new applications can reduce Opex 65 percent and produce a revenue uplift of 15 percent for MSOs.
