Designed and built Cisco DOCSIS cable plant for new residential developments in partnership with cable providers: the cable layout for the greenfield buildout, the fiber infrastructure feeding it, and the headend-side design that made residential broadband possible in areas that had none.
Greenfield residential is a sequencing problem as much as an engineering one. The plant has to be in the ground before the streets and houses are finished, so the design has to be right the first time or it gets dug up.
The developments were the Hampton communities — North Hampton, South Hampton and several others — under construction at the same time, with the work running down to the physical level alongside the cabling contractors: the pads and the routes carrying cable to each home, in the years before fiber to the home took over.
What sat on top of the plant is its own subject: see Subscriber Edge & Carrier-Grade NAT for the headend termination, the per-subscriber policy and the translation.
DOCSIS work also ran alongside the network engineering at StorComm from 1997, and carried on past the Coleman Technologies tenure under Michael Young Technologies after 2005.
Subtopics
- Subscriber Edge & Carrier-Grade NATThe plane where a residential subscriber is terminated, addressed, rate-limited and accounted for — and where thousands of households share one public address pool.
Applied in
- Cisco DOCSIS Residential Cable BuildoutsGreenfield residential cable plant, headend policy, address management and voice — and one public address pool carrying thousands of residents.
Career
- Senior Network Engineer · Coleman Technologies (subsequently acquired; now Presidio)
- Chief Systems Engineer · StorComm, Inc.
Attested by
- Cisco Expert-Track Written ExaminationsFour expert-track written examinations passed across eight years. These carried CCIE recertification through successive cycles — the exam record behind twenty years of maintaining #10042.
- Cisco Specialist ExaminationsFive specialist and technical examinations passed in 2003, mapping directly onto the cable plant, quality of service and voice work of that period.