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Casa Systems: leading the way to IP and CCAP
Two fundamental truisms form the foundation of Casa Systems’ product line and its plans for the future. 1. Fixed networks will all eventually be IP. 2. Many existing networks have huge capital tied up in legacy transmission and they need a cost-effective bridge between the ‘old world’ and the ‘new world'.
hat bridge is the Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP) as described by the CableLabs specification, and it is a category in which Casa firmly believes it has a lead. Mark Sumner, VP of Marketing and Business Development, explains: “Casa focused very early –on service convergence of video and data. In fact, we had a service
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but at the same time reduces cost for the operator. Video and data essentially travel the same network and the same hardware with consequent big savings on equipment density and power. “We support an integrated approach to convergence,” says Sumner. “Deploying our CCAP products removes the need for separate
The Casa Systems C2200 is a compact, 1 RU DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem Termina- tion System (CMTS).
running in the mid 2000s. This meant that when the competing cable convergence propositions came together and the CCAP specification emerged from Cable Labs, we were significantly ahead of the game, and we still are.” The goal of IP served networks is a win-win in that it provides an ever-increasing range of choices for the consumer – and thereby new revenue opportunities for service providers -
devices such as QAM, CMTS and upstream routers. There is a single device to install, manage, support and provision. Our approach provides capital investment protection by allowing cable operators to deliver digital unicast video in native MPEG format today and to seamlessly migrate to IP streaming video services with the same hardware. Casa products also enable video and IP data to share the spectral resources of the HFC plant within the same hardware platform.” “Casa continues to lead the way to convergence and we are doing so now with our C10G C100G? platform that combined with our
DS8x96 cards provides a very strong migration road map without swapping out hardware.” Alongside cable technology behemoths like Cisco and the now super-big combination of Motorola and Arris, Casa is very much the new, and the small, kid on the block. But its innovative approach, its technology leadership, and its freedom from heavily invested legacy product lines has seen it carve out a significant and growing share. “We started out in 2003 and our business plan had us winning customers in EMEA – operators were more ready to choose a young, aggressive company than in the longer-established US ,market. We wanted an anchor client and that’s what we got with UPC. They did exhaustive testing as they prepared to move wholesale to DOCSIS 3.0 and they fortunately went with their judgement rather than falling back on the default position of choosing the legacy vendor.” In fact, UPC was so impressed that once Casa was already on board as a supplier UPC’s pare ? X?\? H??[ ?X?[YH[?[??\??[? H X?????H ?[???8?'H [? [??[Y?? \? ??\ \?H?\?[?\??[? H[Y\??[??X\??][?\?XH ?\?KY?Z[?Y?X?H [? ?\?[?\??YK??H\?X?\?Y[???X?H[??X[???H[??X[???H?X?H??X?[YHHXZ???Y[? \?]?HX[?H?\??[?\?H?X?H?\?]?? ?[??H [???'H??? H??\[?H\? ?] [??] ? ?Y? ???[? ?[[?][?[Y\?X?H[? Z\??YHT?X\??] ?]\? ??H ?Y?Y?X?[?[[?[????UT??QQPB??