In determining how far to drive fiber and how best to partition serving areas, cable operators must analyze the bandwidth gains and investment returns associated with their architecture options.

While fiber deep has historically been described in terms of depth of an amplifier cascade, such as N+5 and N+1, new measures focused on bandwidth delivered have emerged to better guide operators’ decisions. Motorola has a broad portfolio of fiber deep products that help cable operators drive fiber further into the network.

By formulating evolution strategies based on delivered bandwidth tied to households passed per node, cable operators can ensure that their fiber deep strategies are right sized to economically meet bandwidth service windows now and into the future.