Jay Rolls News Today

Jack Burton and Jay Rolls of Broadband Success Partners join the podcast to discuss AT&Ts new fiber JV, variations in the open access model and to speculate on the upgrade choices of Charter and Comcast.

Cisco has all but exited the business of cable taps, amplifiers and nodes, but John Chapman, now CTO of broadband at Cisco, will stay linked to the HFC world as a member of Technetixs strategic advisory board.

The top podcasts of the year included interviews with execs from Dell, Tarana, Lumen, Starry and Juniper, as well as several discussions about service providers in the news.

Industry experts believe DOCSIS 3.1 can keep pace with todays fiber competition by pairing a 1.2GHz upgrade with an upstream-expanding high-split. But emergence of new PON technologies could limit the role of DOCSIS 4.0.