The growing demand for bandwidth, which only accelerated over the past few months, and the emerging importance of delivering mission-critical services in a residential environment is imposing increasingly stringent demands and requirements on cable operators and vendors. Although the trend toward more downstream bandwidth consumption has been well understood, the sudden growth of upstream bandwidth consumption, driven by work and school at home, home-based healthcare, and other applications, is a new development, but one that will persist as new applications and business models centered around delivering services in the home continue to grow and evolve. These notable developments are happening at a time when labor markets are constrained and when other restrictions are being imposed on service providers. Click to download Liliane Offredo-Zreik's paper.

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