MACOM to show latest CATV and Broadband Devices at Cable-Tec Expo'14
MACOM will show its portfolio of CATV and broadband devices at Cable-Tec Expo'14, Denver Colorado from the 23rd to the 25th September.
To keep pace with the exponential growth in data demand while using existing fibre and copper, cable networks are working toward the deployment of DOCSIS 3.1 equipment. This requires changes to the active and passive components within the infrastructure and customer premise equipment, such as higher power, linearity and bandwidth amplifiers, improved rejection filters, and a full new suite of power dividers and couplers - essentially a full refresh of the equipment toolkit.
Amongst MACOM's new products targeted at this equipment refresh are DOCSIS3.1 push-pull and power doubler GaAs solutions in SMT plastic format. These GaAs infrastructure amplifiers offer multiple system operators higher linearity and output power with extended 1.2GHz bandwidth.
Other devices include diplex filters that deliver very high isolation and return loss while simultaneously maintaining the lowest possible insertion loss. The higher power levels combined with extended frequency requirements of DOCSIS3.1 place much greater demands on the passive components in the system amplifier. Passives need to exhibit multi-octave flat response and not contribute to system distortion.
MACOM will also be showing surface mount triplex filters, which cover the 42/54, 65/85, 85/105 MHz, and 204/258 MHz bands, are MoCA 2.0 compliant and fully footprint compatible, allowing for simplified front-end designs and quicker design cycles. High performance filter technology is needed to simultaneously support next generation MoCA systems and new DOCSIS 3.1 interfaces to the core network.
The company will also be exhibiting 300 MHz reverse path single-ended, differential and variable gain amplifiers, and FTTx amplifiers developed specifically to meet Radio Frequency over Glass (RFoG) and Passive Optical Network (PON) system requirements.
