Assure best-in-class reliability and performance with plant and cable modem monitoring and diagnosis
Simplify a complex landscape with task-specific tool kit
Modulation profile management
Modem browser and modem stats
Upstream analysis and performance assurance
To meet customer expectations today, MSOs must manage a very complex infrastructure to deliver high-performance services with little or no margin of error. For economic as well as customer satisfaction considerations, when incidents do occur it is critical to assess and address them as quickly and efficiently as possible. The ARRIS Spectrum Analyzer (ASA) provides ARRIS C3 and C4 CMTS DOCSIS 2.0 operators with a full-featured platform for routine performance measurement and analyses as well as a high-performance, state-of-the-art, task-specific tool for identifying, diagnosing, and repairing HFC plant and cable modem issues. To rapidly diagnose and resolve uplink problems, ASA develops upstream spectrum profiles and power amplitude traces based upon user-specified channel, modem, and sampling parameters. FFT analyses generate element-specific diagnoses, performance graphs, and corrective recommendations. Support for SNMP enables ASA to provide remote element management for improved MTTR, enhanced QoS, reduced rework, and fewer truck rolls.
The ARRIS Spectrum Analyzer software runs on a PC or laptop and is a flexible framework for managing upstream width, frequency, slot size, channel type, and other parameters to improve reliability and performance. ASA allows operators to ping and browse individual cable modems for configuration, performance, and management data. Spectrum Analyzer’s Modulation Profile Wizard simplifies the application and management of custom and default modulation profiles and parameters. Modem Statistics Browser captures detailed usage information on an entire CMTS, an individual upstream channel, or specific cable modems to enable operators to identify busiest users, percent of channel capacity utilized, number of registered users, and other information critical to superb network performance, reliability and capacity planning.
