In the July 2016 issue of Microwave Journal, Peregrine’s Peter Bacon and Kinana Hussain provide insight into how growing consumer demand for high-speed home data is challenging the cable industry and how high linearity RF switches are the key to delivering the performance required to meet the stringent DOCSIS 3.1 standards for these increased data rates. The article begins with a comprehensive view of the projected demand for high-speed data and provides an in-depth discussion about DOCSIS 3.1 technology – the new cable industry standard designed to meet these performance demands. The specific technical challenges to meeting the standard are discussed in detail as well as the benefits of UltraCMOS® RF switches from Peregrine and how they meet these exacting requirements.
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