Cable MSOs are transforming into diversified media, information, and communications services providers. Whether living the OTT bandwidth curve, going all-IP with DOCSIS 3.1, expanding business services, or reducing network costs through packet-OTN convergence or SDN/NFV, LightRiver can help by simplifying network engineering, implementation and operations, enabling faster service turn up and providing an information and product access advantage.

Cable MSOs are competing head-on for market share against traditional service providers as well as emerging OTT and Internet content providers. Although MSOs were the first to run multiple services over their network infrastructure – first with “double play” video and broadband, then “triple play” with voice, they must continue to drive new service growth by offering Wi-Fi based mobile voice and data services to deliver the “quad play” to both residential as well as the demanding commercial services business community.

MSOs are focused on delivering voice, video, and data services to everyone. With the growth of these services, cable transport networks are seeing dramatic bandwidth growth. With emerging DOCSIS 3.1 technology supporting downstream speeds up to 10 Gb/s, and as 4K HDTV, VoD, and OTT services continue to grow, optical transport bandwidth requirements are expanding at a compounded annual rate of 50-75%. As a result, cable MSOs must constantly deploy new circuits to keep ahead of demand, and there seems to be no plateau in sight even as the industry migrates to 100G+ transport speeds in the metro core and backbone.