Cloud native Archives

8 10, 2025

SCTE EXPO 2025 Recap

DOCSIS Rocks2025-10-08T09:56:30-04:00October 8th, 2025|

Watch a brief recap of SCTE Tech Expo, John Downey and Brady Volpe break down the latest DOCSIS 4 innovations, Low Latency L4S for gamers, and the role of AI from Harmonic and OpenVault in transforming networks. Gamers will be thrilled to hear how L4S (Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable throughput) is shaping the next era of online experiences, while broadband operators and engineers will appreciate insights into Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM) and real-world AI use cases. We had a blast checking out all the new technologies—though

3 09, 2025

Turning My vCMTS into a PON OLT – Live Fiber Demo with multi-Gbps ONU Speed Test!

DOCSIS Rocks2025-09-03T11:52:54-04:00September 3rd, 2025|

Hey everyone—welcome back! You usually see me talking coax, DOCSIS, MER… but today we’re flipping the script: it’s fiber time. Join Brady Volpe and Andrii Vladyka, Vice President, Growth and Technologies at Harmonic, for a LIVE fiber lab demo like no other! In this session, we’re turning a virtual CMTS (vCMTS) into a PON OLT (Optical Line Terminal) and connecting an ONU (Optical Network Unit) — all live and in real time. After our last chat on PTP-less timing, Andrii asked if I’d be up for playing

22 11, 2022

The DOCSIS Virtual CMTSs

DOCSIS Rocks2022-11-30T19:25:00-05:00November 22nd, 2022|

At this year’s SCTE Cable-Tec Expo I had the opportunity to present a topic on the “Top-5 Things You Should Know About Operating a Virtual CMTS.” While there are more than five things one should know about vCMTSs, the general overview is a virtual CMTS (vCMTS) is nearly identical in performance to a legacy CMTS but differs in some very interesting ways. This article provides a brief overview of the original presentation and hopefully will encourage readers to take a deeper look at the benefits of vCMTSs and

8 12, 2020

Virtualization a Deeper Dive Special Series Part Three

DOCSIS Rocks2021-08-15T16:14:33-04:00December 8th, 2020|

Follow part 3 of this series on cloud native virtualization of DOCSIS and broadband networks? Brady Volpe and Asaf Matatyaou, Vice President, Solutions and Product Management, Cable Edge Business at Harmonic, explore this topic as it is becoming a big focus in the way we deploy and manage our networks through cloud native virtualization. In this second installment we focus more on practical applications of virtualized CMTSs and answer more questions from our listeners. Part 1 of this series: https://youtu.be/IKbVYHYvrEc Part 2 of this series: https://youtu.be/eJVy573ASyM and

11 09, 2020

Virtualization a Deeper Dive Special Series Part Two

DOCSIS Rocks2021-08-15T16:33:11-04:00September 11th, 2020|

Follow part 2 of this series on cloud native virtualization of DOCSIS and broadband networks? Brady Volpe and Asaf Matatyaou, Vice President, Solutions and Product Management, Cable Edge Business at Harmonic, explore this topic as it is becoming a big focus in the way we deploy and manage our networks through cloud native virtualization. In this second installment we focus more on practical applications of virtualized CMTSs and answer more questions from our listeners. Part 1 of this series: https://youtu.be/IKbVYHYvrEc Upcoming events: https://volpefirm.com/broadband-event/ Listen or watch Brady