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The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) has launched development of a suite of technical industry standards to support wider use of optical fiber by the cable-TV industry.
The SCTE is calling its new effort "RF over Glass," and it says the goal is to use fiber to dish up everything from broadband to standard cable television, with full support for the cable industry's beloved DOCSIS standard.
The RF over Glass scheme has been brewing for several months now. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI)-accredited SCTE Standards Program directed by the SCTE Engineering Committee, approved the RF over Glass work program last fall and assigned the program's projects to the SCTE Interface Practices Subcommittee (IPS) for development as industry standards. The IPS Subcommittee then met in mid-March to begin crafting the standards. The cable industry does have a couple of fiber standards - indeed, there is some use of fiber by cable companies - but the new standard is said to be designed to "significantly broaden the industry's fiber focus."
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