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Features and Benefits
Table 1 lists the features and benefits of the Cisco RF Gateway Downstream 384 Universal Edge QAM Line Card.
Table 1.
Features and Benefits
Feature
Benefit
Video
● Concurrent support for Digital Video Broadcast, SDV, VoD, and
NDVR
● Supports a very wide variety of video solution architectures
● Concurrent support for standard and high-definition services
● Achieves greater investment protection through the flexibility to
evolve as service and capacity requirements change
● Concurrent support for multiple video encoding formats, including
MPEG-2 and MPEG-4/H.264
● Can maximize QAM channel utilization
● Table-based and session-based edge QAM operation
● Helps to ensure a smooth transition from current video system
architectures to future video system architectures
DOCSIS
● Designed to meet CableLabs
®
DOCSIS 3.0 and M-CMTS
specifications
● Industry-recognized common specifications with multivendor
interoperability
● Fully tested with the Cisco uBR10012 M-CMTS solution
● Full-featured and tested end-to-end M-CMTS solution offering
stability, scalability, and availability
● Supports downstream external PHY interface (DEPI) control plane
features
● Simplifies setup and operations in an M-CMTS environment
Universal Edge QAM
● Concurrent support for video and DOCSIS on the same line card
● Allows amortization of expenditures for video and DOCSIS edge
QAM resources by sharing a common platform and universal edge
QAM line card
QAM line card
● Standards-based universal edge QAM resource management
● Designed to support CableLabs-defined universal edge QAM
specification for multiple vendor interoperability
● Concurrent support for Annex A, B, and C operations on the same
line card
● Can support mixed annex environments on the same line card with
granularity per port (for example, Annex B for DOCSIS, Annex A for
video)
video)
● 384 QAM channels per line card, 640 replicated QAMs per line card,
up to 128 QAMs per port, up to 10 line cards per Cisco RF Gateway
10 chassis (up to 3840 QAMs per chassis)
10 chassis (up to 3840 QAMs per chassis)
● High capacity edge QAM solution reduces the total number of
devices to manage and provides
● Non-adjacent frequency support
● Allows flexibility on assigning output frequencies
● Optional integrated Cisco PowerKEY
®
and Digital Video
Broadcasting (DVB) encryption
● Minimizes cost and complexity of deploying encrypted services
● Flexible licensing of QAM capacity and encryption
● Supports pay-as-you-grow
High Availability
● Supports high availability for universal edge QAM applications
● Industry’s first carrier-class edge QAM platform provides continuous
service availability and reduces the duration of planned service
outages
outages
Operations and Management
● Software based on QNX microkernel-based real-time, high-
performance operating system
● As in the Cisco Carrier Routing System 1 (CRS-1) range of
products, QNX is the basis of the Cisco RFGW-DS384 software
architecture, providing a very stable, scalable, and efficient
operating system
architecture, providing a very stable, scalable, and efficient
operating system