Category: In the News
March 14, 2024
Delivering Affordable Broadband Everywhere
ATX CEO Dan Whalen maps out the company’s shared mission with MSOs to bring robust, sustainable and affordable broadband to the masses, narrowing the Digital Divide along the way. A 2024 Cable Next-Gen Technologies and Strategies keynoter, Whalen details how ATX is assisting its customers in elevating the end-user experience while contributing to the greening [...]
Read
March 4, 2024
ATX Visium SBB Security Adapter Gains Traction in Commercial DIRECTV Installations
ATX distribution partner NACE cites surge in demand driven by enhancements to device’s interactive program guide. SAN DIEGO, March 4, 2024 – ATX Networks, a global leader in broadband access and media distribution solutions, disclosed that the Visium™ Set-Back Box (SBB), the company’s pocketsize Pro:Idiom®-compatible security adapter, is now a preferred end-device for cost-efficiently elevating [...]
Read
February 29, 2024
Ultimate Guidebook for Finding Your Next-Gen Node Platform
Is your current node platform built for the future? A significant portion of the installed base of HFC nodes was not designed with the future in mind, and MSOs planning to evolve their networks to support the FDD, or Extended Spectrum, version of the DOCSIS 4.0 specifications need to start figuring out how, or even [...]
Read
February 8, 2024
Should DOCSIS 3.1E Impact Your Next HFC Amplifier Purchase?
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | Much attention in recent months has been focused on MSOs acquiring next-generation cable modems that support additional channel capacity in DOCSIS® 3.1 architectures, enabling cable operators to increase downstream capacity before moving to a full-blown DOCSIS 4.0, 1.8GHz-capable network. The DOCSIS 3.1 extension, which has been anointed with a [...]
Read
January 4, 2024
ATX’s 2024 Technology Predictions: Doubling Down on 2023
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | ‘Tis the season for prognostication. About this time every year, technology companies and pundits offer up their best estimates of how the trends and business dynamics shaping the industry will play out in the coming year. Almost always missing from this annual ritual is accountability. Like meteorologists who miss [...]
Read
December 13, 2023
The Definitive Guide to Evolving Your HFC Network
Redefining the Broadband Experience Cable operators now face unprecedented challenges in their decades-long reign as the preeminent supplier of broadband services, placing existential importance on their ability to near-flawlessly evolve their networks without falling behind the competitive curve. With so much on the line, it’s imperative that MSOs exercise precision in the planning and execution [...]
Read
December 11, 2023
Why it will Take More than Technology to Close the Digital Divide
By Dan Whalen, ATX CEO | I had the privilege of participating in the recently completed Broadband Equity Challenge, an interactive case competition among teams of university graduates focused on closing the Digital Divide and reducing digital disparity across demographic groups. While my role for the event’s finale was to help select a winning presentation, [...]
Read
December 5, 2023
Workforce Replenishment: How MSOs can Overcome Labor Shortage Challenges
An already acute shortage of skilled technicians will only worsen when states start doling out $42.5 billion in Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) funding in the next couple of years. That’s why in 2022 ATX introduced its Field Personnel Replenishment Program (FPRP), a hands-on training initiative with a mission to supply the cable industry [...]
Read
November 1, 2023
Cable-Tec Expo 2023 Sends Powerful Message to Fiber Community
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | In case you haven’t noticed, telecommunication companies and other FTTH service providers have taken to talking about MSOs, in their advertising and at industry events, as if they are obsolete, dismissing cable plants as legacy or dated. It’s difficult to decipher if this eulogizing of HFC is simply a [...]
Read
October 31, 2023
Bringing Manufacturing back to the U.S.A.
A critical BEAD funding qualification is purchasing equipment that is assembled in the U.S.A. ATX got a head start on that requirement when it opened a manufacturing facility in Holly, Michigan, April of 2023. Watch this video to get insight on how ATX is utilizing state-of-the-art manufacturing to crank out several hundred thousand intelligent HFC [...]
Read