6 WISPAPALOOZA SHOW I OCTOBER 14 – 17, 2024 www.bekabusinessmedia.com DAY 2 L Z OO 2023 Tarana recently announced progress with three veteran cable operators, representing significant uptake of the company’s next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) broadband technology in the U.S. cable industry. Tarana’s` ngFWA technology is the first of its kind to deliver truly fiber-class broadband with wireless economics and scalability, said the company. After launching commercially in late 2021, ngFWA first took off with WISPs including Wisper and Nextlink. Now more operator segments — cable companies in particular — are turning to ngFWA to enhance and extend their broadband networks, opening new doors for their businesses. Most recently, Cox — the largest private broadband company in the United States — began a field pilot with Tarana equipment in both licensed and unlicensed spectrum to tap new market opportunities. Back in April, Tarana announced their partnership with Mediacom, the fifth largest cable company in the United States. Mediacom is using ngFWA to meet RDOF requirements and expand its footprint of reliable, high-speed internet to thousands of unserved households in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina. “The Tarana solution that we are deploying is highly effective in helping Mediacom meet and exceed its RDOF deployment obligations.” said Fuad Alnajjar, Mediacom’s vice president of business engineering. Midco, a leading connectivity company that offers services including cable TV, phone and internet, is using Tarana ngFWA for 11 Connect America Fund (CAF) buildouts where deployment costs and challenging terrain rendered both fiber and legacy FWA solutions impractical. Delivering high-speed broadband for just $39/month, Midco’s wireless offering is highly competitive and allows them to extend their business into new markets. “We began deploying Tarana’s solution this year, and it’s enabled us to increase the available bandwidth and better serve our customers,” said Midco chief operating officer Ben Dold. “Tarana has been a great partner, and it’s clear they have a vested interest in our success.” Each of these operators, and more than 250 others around the world, are leveraging Tarana ngFWA as a replacement for legacy FWA equipment and as a complement to their existing networks to enhance coverage and capacity wherever adding more wired connections is too costly or time-consuming. “After another recent press release announcing ngFWA adoption by UScellular, the nation’s fifth largest mobile network operator, it is clear that Tarana’s technology is gaining momentum in the cable industry and other segments,” announced the company, “all of which are seeking a more efficient and effective way to deliver high-speed broadband.” m Visit Tarana Wireless at WISPAPALOOZA booth #141. Tarana ngFWA Gains Momentum with U.S. Cable Operators Comcast and CommScope announced that CommScope’s full duplex (FDX) DOCSIS amplifier is now live and serving customers on Comcast’s network. With the deployment, Comcast can seamlessly deliver multi-gig symmetrical services, enhanced reliability, security and performance, to customers served by the vast majority of its current network architecture. “With this first CommScope Full Duplex (FDX) DOCSIS amplifier live in our network, we are positioned to accelerate the pace of our FDX DOCSIS 4.0 deployment,” said Comcast chief network officer, Elad Nafshi. “This pioneering smart amplifier will enable us to deliver multi-gig symmetrical services and leverage industry-first imbedded AI capabilities to deliver unprecedented intelligence, service automation and reliability across our network.” Since launching FDX DOCSIS 4.0 in October 2023, Comcast has scaled the offering to more than one million homes – spanning six markets – with plans to continue accelerating the pace of activation. With this first successful deployment of CommScope’s FDX amplifier, Comcast has a clear path to delivering an unparalleled network experience to homes and businesses across the U.S. CommScope delivered the first prototype full duplex DOCSIS (FDX) amplifiers to Comcast’s advanced technology labs in February 2023; in the following months, the companies undertook system testing to understand and implement technology improvements in advance of this deployment. “Building a future-proof network demands that we’re continually evolving and refining our hardware and software to support everincreasing customer demand,” said Nafshi. “CommScope is a long-standing leader in technology development to support next generation connectivity. Their FDX amplifiers and RPD nodes afford us the flexibility to seamlessly upgrade legacy hardware or deploy hardware where it makes sense for us and our customers, while delivering all the capacity, power and longevity we’ll need into the future.” This milestone represents the first field deployment of STARLINE full duplex (FDX) DOCSIS amplifiers, which employ unified DOCSIS 4.0 silicon technology, in Comcast’s network. Comcast has also begun deploying CommScope’s Opti Max OM6000 FDX node, which utilizes the RD1710-X6 remote PHY device. CommScope’s FDX nodes and amplifiers operate in the upstream on a traditional 5-85 MHz mid-split upstream band. In FDX operation, however, both upstream and downstream traffic share the same spectrum, which begins at 108 MHz and extends to 684 MHz. FDX operation uses this shared spectrum dynamically by “directing” portions of the shared spectrum toward the upstream or downstream band based on traffic demands. This dynamically shared spectrum is used to increase the bandwidth that is available for upstream signals. m Visit CommScope’s booth #600 at WISPAPALOOZA. Comcast Adds CommScope’s FDX DOCSIS Amplifier on its Network
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