Re: DOCSIS CMTS Systems

[Scott Helms <khelms () zcorum com>]

Colton,

Pico is a decent solution, Harmonic has one too (
http://www.harmonicinc.com/product/cable-edge/nsg-exo).  As for cable
specific lists, about the closest I know about is the SCTE mailing list.

http://www.scte.org/SCTE/Resources/SCTE_Lists.aspx


Scott Helms
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On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Colton Conor <colton.conor () gmail com>
wrote:

> 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.