The Alpha Strand Mount Gateway (SMG) is an outdoor hardened DOCSIS 3.0 gateway, which powers itself from HFC coax power. It provides two standard IEEE 802.3at Power Over Ethernet (PoE+) connections for delivering power and backhaul to network connected devices. The product can be adapted for use as a data-only device, but with an additional transformer, it can power backhaul for small cells.
The SMG connects onto the HFC network through a power-passing tap, which allows inexpensive and rapid deployment and installation, Alpha says.
"It's a bonus that the DOCSIS chipset utilized can serve as a health monitoring point with DS full spectrum capture," one Diamonds judge noted.
