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Home Wi-Fi solution for broadband service providers

Sagemcom Broadband SAS, a specialist in broadband and residential terminals and digital set-top boxes, and Plume Design, Inc., the creator of Adaptive Wi-Fi™, have confirmed that the Plume Adaptive Wi-Fi™ solution, including the Pods, are now available as a fully integrated part of Sagemcom’s Wi- Fi-enabled FTTH, DOCSIS and DSL gateway portfolio. “Pioneered by Plume Design, Inc., Adaptive Wi-Fi™ is a deeply distributed Wi-Fi solution that dynamically responds to varying Wi-Fi conditions throughout the whole home, and across multiple apartments in a Multi-Dwelling Unit (MDU) environment. It includes a set of Pods designed to plug directly into sockets around the home. Directed by the Plume Cloud, the Pods offer coverage, speed and reliability far beyond any other solution using a Software Defined Networking (SDN) framework and Plume’s novel Auto-Channel-Hop Wi-Fi backhaul technology,” explained the manufacturers.

“Integrated into various Sagemcom gateway platforms, the Plume gateway agent enables seamless wireless connectivity between the gateway and the Pods. The entire home network and the devices connected to it are actively monitored by the Plume Cloud for the highest performance wireless broadband experience throughout the home.” The joint solution makes both reactive and pre-emptive decisions which improve signal, speed and resiliency such as allowing mobile devices to seamlessly roam around the home, balancing network loads and mitigating interference. As a core element of the solution, the Network Operations Centre (NoC) software provides detailed insights and intelligence on the health, performance and history of the home Wi-Fi network.

For more information, see www.sagemcom.com

AQ1300 series gains ITU-T Y.1564 support

Yokogawa’s compact AQ1300 series 1G/10G Ethernet multi- field tester unit now features ITU-T Y.1564-compliant test functionality.

services, which can affect the network’s ability to maintain Service Level Agreement (SLA) conformance, as well as reducing the time taken to test an Ethernet service.

“This rugged handheld device provides comprehensive test functionality in the smallest and lightest format of any 10GbE test device on the market, and the addition of ITU-T Y.1564 functionality complements the existing RFC2544 compatible network performance tests,” said the manufacturer. ITU-T Y.1564 mandates that standard tests such as throughput, frame loss, latency and packet jitter are executed simultaneously, with multiple services running at the same time. This allows the measurement of the influence between

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Vol. 38 No. 4 - November 2016 Issue