Harmonic is touting new North American business for its CableOS software product, announcing that South Carolina’s Comporium will use the virtualized CCAP to delivery DOCSIS 3.1 services via Distributed Access Architecture (DAA).

Comporium is also using Harmonic's ElectraXT high-density transcoder for IPTV service delivery.

CableOS is a software-based Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) and Remote PHY system. Entering the cable industry’s big annual technology conference in New Orleans next week, CableTec Expo, Harmonic and its virtualized product are threatening to disrupt the hegemony enjoyed in cable access by CommScope, Cisco and Casa Systems.

Over the summer, Comcast committed $175 million to Harmonic to also deploy CableOS in a DAA scheme.

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"Improving our subscribers' quality of experience is a key initiative, and traditional CMTS solutions fall short of providing the flexibility, scalability and efficiency we need to cost-effectively launch multi-gigabit DOCSIS 3.1 broadband services," said Mike Deller, VP of engineering and planning at Comporium. "Harmonic's CableOS solution saves us significant space, power and legacy hardware costs, enabling an easy migration from older CMTS platforms to new virtualized DOCSIS 3.1 networks that will give us a competitive edge in the market."

Added Yaniv Ben-Soussan, VP of sales, North America cable at Harmonic: ”Speed is a major determining factor in consumer satisfaction with broadband services today, and that's why Comporium is joining a host of other cable operators in North America and globally to deploy Gigabit internet services powered by our CableOS solution. The CableOS solution enables continuous improvements in upstream and downstream bandwidth capacity plus all of the flexibility and scalability that comes from having a virtualized cable access solution, positioning Comporium for tremendous business growth."

Comporium has hooked up with AirTies to bring a whole-home WiFi offering to customers in the Carolinas that matches the Air 4920, a mesh WiFi extender, and AirTies’s management software.

A premium, subscription product, Comporium is offering a two-device kit for $9.99 per month to new customers or existing ones that upgrade to a higher-speed internet service tier. Comporium will also use Remote View, a cloud-based platform from AirTies that monitors in-home WiFi performance and uses that data to help to optimize connectivity.

The Air 4920 is a 3x3 802.11ac and 2x2 802.11n dual-band concurrent access point.

The deal expands AirTies’s agreements with cable operators and other service providers that have added whole-home WiFi services to their arsenals. Other announced partners include Atlantic Broadband, AT&T, Frontier, Midco, Singtel, Sky, Swisscom, and Vodafone.

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The trend has also opened up opportunities for other suppliers focused on whole-home WiFi gear and software, including eero, Arris and Plume, which has teamed with Comcast on the deployment of WiFi “pods” that aim to extend the reach of WiFi signals to all corners of the home.

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In other new Comporium news, NCTI has teamed with the Comporium Security, Monitoring and Automation (SMA) unit on a new online training course for SMA technicians.

Comporium SMA, which provided turnkey security, home automation and energy management services to the cable industry, and NCTI will make the course available to current and prospective Comporium SMA Solutions customers beginning in early-to-mid February.

The course, Home Security Technician, is currently comprised of three lessons, with two more to be added. NCTI estimates that most students will finish the course within four or five hours.  Upon successful completion, students will receive an NCTI certificate of achievement.