Time Warner Cable Dons Casa’s CCAP

Reaching a significant milestone in the deployment of next-gen cable access technologies, Casa Systems confirmed that Time Warner Cable is delivering IP-based data and voice services and QAM-based video simultaneously in New York using the vendor’s integrated Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP). The achievement is significant because it’s the first known deployment in North America of a CCAP that is delivering both IP and QAM services via the same platform.

The CCAP, a high-density, energy-saving platform, puts the functions of the edge QAM and the cable modem termination system under the same roof. While early CCAP-facing implementations have served as either super CMTSs or edge QAMs, the TWC/Casa deployment in New York is mixing both IP- and MPEG/QAM traffic on the same platform at the same time. According to Casa, TWC has “migrated hundreds of thousands of video subs” to the vendor’s C100G integrated CCAP, a product introduced in mid-2013.