Add DOCSIS-Based High-Speed Data Services

Cable operators have enjoyed great success offering Internet access. Cisco has the real-world experience, proven products, and advanced technologies to help you supply cable high-speed data (HSD) services, based on DOCSIS standards, for homes and businesses.

Cisco HSD solutions (Figure 1) blend broadband cable RF technology with Cisco’s highly scalable, secure, and flexible IP core technology. The Cisco portfolio includes industry-leading, DOCSIS-compliant CMTSs, leading-edge business and home CPE, and advanced IP backbone and edge products. Along with residential HSD products, Cisco offers tested business service solutions, including VPNs, Metro Ethernet, and virtual LANs, that can generate higher margins and higher revenue.

Cisco works with you to integrate its broad array of products into a single, highly productive HSD solution tailored to your needs.

How the DOCSIS-Based Solution Works

Your high-speed data backbone can be used for interconnection between different regional networks, as well as to external networks. High-speed trunks using DWDM and SONET/SDH technologies support Ethernet interfaces used by both routers and switches. The statistically multiplexed links can, in turn, use Dynamic Packet Transport (DPT), Resilient Packet Rings (RPRs), or other Ethernet transport standards such as 10 Gigabit Ethernet links.

Next-generation technology incorporates Modular CMTS architectures (M-CMTS) based on DOCSIS 3.0 downstream channel-bonding techniques that more effectively use bandwidth. Your customers can receive 100 Mbps services and beyond via your existing cable plant. You can add this new technology on a node-by-node basis, responding to competition as it arises. Our solutions let you take advantage of DOCSIS 3.0 channel bonding without a major infrastructure upgrade and also allow you to support DOCSIS 1.x, 2.0, and 3.0 simultaneously.