Aiming to significantly enhance consumer broadband and video experience, Qorvo® expanded its CATV portfolio with five new products that improve upstream and downstream capabilities in customer premises equipment. The launch includes four DOCSIS 3.1 upstream amplifiers and a broadband digital step attenuator (DSA), which are sampling now.

The four amplifiers (QPB2318, 2328, 3311 and 3321) offer high gain and best-in-class linearity and support up to 16-port residential amplifiers, voice over internet protocol (VoIP) and multimedia over coax alliance (MoCA) applications. The QPC3614 DSA achieves less than 500 ns switching time without glitches, which dramitcally improves video quality.

Qorvo now offers more than 65 DOCSIS 3.1-ready components, the largest number of any supplier. The new amplifiers use the company’s internal GaAs processes, and the DSA is fabricated on a silicon on insulator (SOI) process.

CableLabs® reports that the most common, data-intensive application across the globe is video streaming, which requires the most bandwidth of any type of broadband use. As operators upgrade their networks to the higher bandwidth DOCSIS 3.1 standard, they will improve network throughput and latency, improving video streaming quality.

Gorden Cook, general manager of Qorvo's transport business said, “The technical advancements in these new products demonstrate why Qorvo is the leading supplier of high power, high performance components for DOCSIS 3.1 networks.”