Cable Networks, Services, and Management

Cable Networks, Services, and Management is the first book to cover cable networks, services, and their management, in-depth, for network operators, engineers, researchers, and students. Thirteen experts in various fields have contributed their knowledge of network architectures and services, Operations, Administration, Maintenance, Provisioning, Troubleshooting (OAMPT) for residential and business services, cloud, Software Defined Networks (SDN), as well as virtualization concepts and their applications as part of the future directions of cable networks.

The book begins by introducing architecture and services for Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) 3.0/ 3.1, Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP), Content Distribution Networks (CDN, IP TV, and Packet Cable and Wi-Fi for Residential Services. Topics that are discussed in proceeding chapters include: operational systems and management architectures, service orders, provisioning, fault management, performance management, billing systems and formats, and security for residential services. Similar to residential services, functions for business services as DOCSIS Provisioning of EPON (DPoE), EPON Protocol over Coax (EPOC), IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), fault management, billing systems, and formats are explained.

The book concludes with a note on future directions for cable networks by describing cloud services, virtualization, SDN, and the proposed self-managed network concepts with their applications.

Mehmet Toy, Ph.D, is a Distinguished Engineer at Comcast, USA, involved in network architectures and standards. Previously, Dr. Toy held management and technical positions at ADVA Optical Networking, Intel Corporation, Verizon Wireless, Axiowave Networks, Fujitsu Network Communications, AT&T Bell Labs and Lucent Technologies. He has contributed to research, development and standardization of Cloud Services Architectures, Metro Ethernet, DOCSIS Provisioning of EPON (DPoE), IP Multimedia Systems (IMS), Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), optical, IP/MPLS, and wireless. He has authored four books, and numerous articles in these areas and signal processing, and has taught at universities as a tenure-track and adjunct faculty member.