RFMD (Soon to be know as qorvo) has unveiled 11 new amplifiers to support the requirements of the new data over cable service interface specification (DOCSIS) 3.1. Six of these are based on gallium nitride (GaN) technology. RFMD will showcase its portfolio of industry-leading CATV components for customers at its booth/meeting room (#2044) at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo in Denver from September 22-25.
RFMD's DOCSIS 3.1 family includes 1.2 GHz power amplifiers as both hybrids and multi-chip modules (MCMs) that use state of the art GaN HEMT process technology and offer optimal linearity and output power while providing robust reliability. The newest addition to RFMD's product portfolio for DOCSIS 3.1 include new power doubler amplifiers, push pull amplifiers, optical receivers, a reverse path amplifier, and a family of digital step attenuators. With the addition of these new products, RFMD now offers more than 25 products tailored for DOCSIS 3.1 applications, making it the industry's broadest offering.
RFMD's downstream amplifiers operate from 40 MHz to 1.218 GHz with extremely low distortion levels and excellent input and output return loss (20dB typical). The reverse path amplifiers work up to 300 MHz with high gain and highly integrated functions. RFMD's GaN technology offers the power density required to meet high power CATV requirements. They have been shipping high-volume CATV GaN-based amplifiers for the past five years.
RFMD's award-winning GaN family allows cable operators and MSOs to easily upgrade existing CATV infrastructure to meet the power amplifier requirements of the new DOCSIS 3.1 standard. DOCSIS 3.1 increases effective downstream data rates from 160 Megabits per second (Mb/s) to 10 Gigabits per second (Gbit/s), and upstream data rates from 120 Mb/s to 1 Gbit/s when compared to DOCSIS 3.0. Due to the high output and gain benefits derived from these GaN amplifiers, cable operators will be able to upgrade their existing equipment within current locations, saving on both installation time and cost.
