Re: DOCSIS CMTS Systems

[Colton Conor <colton.conor () gmail com>]

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 () xyonet com> wrote:

> Seriously nice solutions...both of them.
>
> --Curtis
>
> On 7/29/2015 10:49 AM, frnkblk () 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 () nanog org] On Behalf Of Colton Conor
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 8:27 AM
> > To: NANOG <nanog () nanog org>; Scott Helms <khelms () 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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