Delivery: Seminar
Estimated Length: 32 seat hours
Price: $4,395.00
Pricing/Bundles:
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» Individual Course Price: $4,395
Bundle with DOCSIS Network Overview: $4,595
Students enrolled in the DOCSIS Network Overview training course will learn
about DOCSIS basics, modem operations, and the digital modulation schemes
employed by DOCSIS. The Hybrid Fiber/Coax (HFC) network, which DOCSIS
runs on in a cabled world, is also explored. The course provides a foothold to a
deeper dive into DOCSIS.
– The estimated completion time for this course is 2 hours.
–The maximum allotted time is four months from enrollment.
Upon completing this course, students will be able to:
• Discuss how upstream RF levels are determined and maintained, and the
impact of operating modems in a shared network.
• Explain how the DOCSIS modem operates in the transmission path
• Describe the role of cable and connectors in a distribution system
• List and describe the role of passive signal transmission components in a
distribution system
• Describe different distribution system amplifiers and identify basic amplifier
components
• Explain basic system powering theory, identify power supply components
and basic operation, and describe underground and aerial installations
• Describe how a ring architecture using fiber-optic cable can maintain
reliability
• Recognize the HFC progressions that have brought fiber-optic cable closer to
the customer premises
• Understand why the broadband cable industry is developing its own PON
(passive optical network) standard
• Describe the primary digital modulation schemes used in broadband cable
networks
Bundle with DOCSIS Network Overview and Cisco Remote PHY Deep
Dive (R-PHY): $4,850
Custom course experience available for groups, please contact NCTI Customer Care for details
cBR-8 is the next generation in Cisco’s series of CMTS (Cable Modem Termination
System) platforms. Cisco’s uBR 10K (Universal Broadband Router) previously offered
industry-leading CMTS functionality – the cBR-8 is now Cisco’s flagship CMTS offering.
The Cisco cBR-8 CCAP (Converged Cable Access Platform) CMTS provides many
technology advancements and performance enhancements, while reducing the overall
cost per subscriber. These advanced capabilities include: four times the capacity
(number of cable modems/subscribers per CMTS) at double the speed of currently
available DOCSIS 3.0 solutions (10K). The cBR-8 provides maximum flexibility for the
future adoption of innovative network architectures including Remote PHY (RPHY),
SDN and Virtual CMTS (vCMTS). The cBR-8’s native support of DOCSIS 3.1 allows
cable operators to deliver ultra-broadband services with maximum downstream speeds
approaching 10 Gbps per subscriber and 1 Gbps upstream.
Note: Cisco 10K supports all versions up to DOCSIS 3.0. cBR-8 supports up to 3.1.
- Please contact NCTI Customer Care for available dates, locations and times.
- You must provide your own laptop for both classroom and online activities.
Delivery Options:
Please contact NCTI Customer Care for delivery options and/or available dates, locations and times. You must provide your own laptop.
Completion Time:
The estimated completion time for this course is 32 hours (four days).
Benefits:
- You will learn the cBR-8 architecture, deployment best practices, security features and perform key DOCSIS 3.0 and 3.1 configuration tasks during hands-on labs.
Outline:
DOCSIS Primer
DOCSIS characteristics, available spectrum, TDM/ TDMA/ATDMA/SCDMA and channel types
cBR-8 Architecture and Hardware Overview
Hardware overview, chassis installation, system level troubleshooting and discovery lab
Software Overview and MAC Domain Configuration
cBR-8 differences (versus uBR 10K), software and configuration, bringing up a MAC domain lab, 1:2 combining and 1 by 2 combining lab
Bonding and Bonding Resiliency
Downstream resiliency, upstream resiliency, wideband resiliency lab and battery backup
Security Features
Dynamic shared secret (DMIC), cable source verify, cable ARP filtering, BPI+ policy enforcement and privacy hotlist
DOCSIS Load Balancing
Basic DOCSIS load balancing CLI, advanced DOCSIS load balancing configuration, verification and troubleshooting, DOCSIS load balancing lab and additional load balancing features
cBR-8 Features
cBR-8 call home, smart licensing, high availability for supervisor and line card, cBR-8 patching – subpackage mode, cBR-8 CPU protection and punt path rate limiting (PPRL)
DOCSIS 3.1 Architecture
Greenfield reference architecture, physical layer properties, PHY link channel (PLC), modulation characteristics, MAC and DOCSIS upper layers, MAC protocol operation and cable modem registration (DOCSIS 3.1)
DOCSIS 3.1 Configuration
DOCSIS 3.1 downstream, DOCSIS 3.1 downstream configuration, downstream verification, configuring DOCSIS 3.1 downstream lab, DOCSIS 3.1 upstream, DOCSIS 3.1 upstream configuration, upstream verification and configuring DOCSIS 3.1 upstream lab
cBR-8 Modem Troubleshooting
Modem registration flowchart, cable modem MAC states, modems failing registration or BPI+, modems not coming up in wideband mode, general modemfocused troubleshooting, troubleshooting lab