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Operations, Construction & Network Planning

New Approaches to Network Design

Building and Deploying Enterprise-Wide Design and Drafting Tools for Hybrid Fiber Coaxial (HFC) Networks 

  • Reviewing the development of a HFC network design tool that addresses the limitations of existing tools
  • Meeting the challenges of transforming data from current tools
  • Examining strategies for deployment strategy for the HFC network design tool
    • Understanding the considerations for regional rollout to reduce risk and embrace adoption
  • Determining the challenges of deploying an application that provides data to over one hundred applications using layer services

Kathy Binns
Program Delivery Director
Comcast

Taking the Guesswork Out of Network Capacity Management 

  • Analyzing network performance metrics aimed at facilitating robust capacity management strategies within broadband networks
  • Assessing potential applications for effective network capacity management
  • Leveraging insights derived from speed distributions, latency characteristics, and associated parameters to proactively optimize network resources, enhance service quality, and ensure optimal customer experience

Sung-eun Kim
Senior Network Planning Engineer
Cox Communications

Evolution of the Automated Pre-Vetting Process to Validate Access Network Maps

  • Examining the usage of the original automated pre-vetting process and how the automation pre-vetting process has evolved 
  • Analysing the differences in the automated pre-vetting process for the integrated cable modem termination system (iCMTS) and virtualized CMTS (vCMTS) and the benefits of including telemetry data
  • Detailing the output of the enhanced automated pre-vetting process such as annotated plant maps, device plots, and utilization data
  • Assessing the overall business impact of the pre-vetting process

John Schlack
Distinguished Architect
Comcast

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