While most cable technologists insist that the industry's HFC pipes still have long lives ahead of them, cable operators are installing more and more fiber strands in their networks. Whether they're ...

Splitting wood, splitting nodes. It’s a rough analogy, but helps get across several points. First, both are established practices, and even popular, given cold temperatures or bandwidth constraints.

A network node is a connection point in a communications network. This point, often known as an endpoint, is attached to the network and can send and receive data over that network. It can also create ...