INCOMPAS Fall 2017 - Day 2 Show Daily

www. INCOMPAS .org « 9 » www.bekabusinessmedia.com DAY 2 U .S. broadband provider WOW! (Silver Sponsor) and Nokia have announced the cable industry’s first commercial virtualized Distributed Access Architecture (vDAA) deployment. Traditional hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) networks — originally designed to carry broadcast analog video — are being over- whelmed by traffic from IP video, high-speed data services, cloud computing and other business applications. Facing a 40 percent to 60 percent average annual compound growth in data capacity requirements, WOW! and Nokia are delivering new ways to cope with the increasing bandwidth demands being placed on HFC networks. WOW! will deploy Nokia’s unified cable access solution, including the Gainspeed Controller, Gainspeed SC-2D Access Node and Gainspeed Video Engine, to support rapid network expansion as the company continues to bring services to new communities and increase performance for subscribers. Once the network is fully deployed, WOW! will be able to effectively eliminate the CMTS/CCAP as a physical box, and replace its analog optical transmission with 10Gbps Ethernet. WOW!’s existing HFC network capacity will be significantly increased using Nokia’s unified cable access solution, the companies said, helping WOW! meet exploding bandwidth demands of subscribers, adapt to the evolving ways they consume multimedia content and deliver an even better internet experience. “The Nokia virtualized DAA is a ground- breaking technology that enables us to expand our network faster, deploy services more easily and provide the best internet experience for our customers,” said Cash Hagen, COO of WOW! “As the first to deploy the technology, we are ready to lead the way in providing a new solution to meet increasing bandwidth demands.” Nokia’s platform provides a fully distributed and virtualized access architecture that will increase the capacity of WOW!’s existing HFC infrastructure while simultaneously eliminating cable-specific hardware from headends and hubs, significantly reducing space and power requirements. The architecture enables MSOs to rapidly deploy new services and cost-effectively migrate their networks to a software-driven, all-IP architecture. “The cable MSO market is on the cusp of a change that will require a new approach to building access networks, one that can more effectively scale to meet the growth of IP video and high-speed data demands,” said Federico Guillén, president of Nokia’s Fixed Networks Business Group. “Nokia’s unified cable access solution and Gainspeed vDAA provides cable MSOs with a cost-efficient upgrade path for their existing DOCSIS networks, delivering the added capacity required while simultaneously simpli- fying network operations and preparing their networks for an all-fiber, all-IP network.” This network transformation will enable WOW! to drastically reduce operating expenses and provide the architecture needed to deliver multi-gigabit services to customers using their existing coaxial cable, said the companies. p WOW! and Nokia Deploy Virtualized Distributed Access Architecture