IBBS' Kyle Johnson speaks at the NCTC WEC 2011

IBBS director of product strategy, Kyle Johnson, spoke at the NCTC Winter Educational Conference session Taming the Bandwidth Beast on March 1st, 2011. The talk was featured in an article on CT's cable360.net which you can read here.

"Operators have the same number of subscribers and the same service offerings but, in September, there was the bandwidth 'apocalypse,'" added Kyle Johnson, director/Product Strategy at IBBS. "Everyone is doing over the top (OTT) now, and this is bad for the small operator."

According to Johnson, there are only three options operators have to increase bandwidth: buy more capacity (node splits, load balancing, DOCSIS 3.0, circuit upgrades), shave/optimize peak usage times (install caches of common backhaul drain locations, implement a fair-share system to protect peak quality of service [QoS]) or even out-time distribution (and this is a potentially difficult sell).

"What it all comes down to is: You need a bigger boat," he said.

Read the full article here.