The 10Gbps to the Side of the Home over Existing Cable Vision

Cable operators can scale to 10Gbps digital capacity under the following conditions:

• Mini-fiber node deployment, approximately 25-50 homes passed
• Less than 1000 meters of coaxial cable
• Removal of the remaintaining active RF amplifiers
  • retires equipment!
  • reduces maintainance, power
  • removes passband restrictions
• Over 1GHz of RF passband on high quality of cable from node to tap(s)
• Rainmaker technology provides 10Gbps
• Existing broadcast, multicast, VOD, DOCSIS, HDTV services continue to operate
• Rainmaker technology permits operation in either direction (upstream or downstream) on the same media without the use of hybrids or diplexors