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InCoax Networks plans to bring high-speed connections to customers with the release of its next generation Coax Link Controller. The Coax Link Controller is the Fiber Extension over the existing coaxial cabling placed inside apartment buildings.

InCoax Networks’ new release is designed to provide up to 1.4 Gbps over the in-building coaxial network. The solution aims to help operators deliver better network capacity and quality of service for their network subscribers.

Subscribers’ needs are growing and this has led to the demand for very high bandwidth that can support interactive gaming and content delivery. InCoax Networks says its new release can enable individual subscribers to achieve up to 350Mbps broadband speeds, depending on modem type.

“Bringing fiber connections to individual homes would solve the bandwidth problem, but this is far too expensive to be economically viable in older apartment buildings throughout Europe. With InCoax’s next generation Coax Link Controller, operators can bring high-speed connections to customers by utilising the existing coaxial cabling inside apartment buildings — at a considerably lower cost compared to using fibre all the way and with the ability to guarantee sufficient connection speeds for all subscribers,” said Helge Tiainen, product marketing manager at InCoax Networks.

Working as an access network node, the new InCoax Coax Link Controller is designed to deliver signals from fiber networks to individual subscribers using the existing coaxial cabling.

The Coax Link Controller uses Entropic's (News - Alert) c.LINK Ethernet over Coax MoCA chipset solution to support broadband speeds up to 1.4 Gbps over 8 RF-channels downstream and upstream. Operators can combine two RF-channels to deliver a maximum speed of 350 Mbps to individual subscribers. Also, they can connect several Coax Link Controllers to the in-coming fiber of an apartment building.