Excelacom Blog Fiber Deep: Syncing the Back Office is Key to Success

Bandwidth usage of access networks (or the last mile) continues to grow as service providers are migrating to all IP services (IP Video, 4K Video, and other business services). Traffic from on-demand services also continues to skyrocket while total Internet usage increases 50 percent year over year. The steep increase in bandwidth demand is motivating cable operators around the world to migrate their access Hybrid Fiber COAX (HFC) network to a Distributed Access Architecture (DAA);doing so allows them to better compete with other fiber-based or over-the-top (OTT) service providers who already offer high-speed services that many of today's existing HFC-based networks can't support. Traditional methods of increasing bandwidth over HFC, such as adding Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM), moving channels to DOCSIS, splitting nodes and other methods, will not be tenable in the near future.