Arris and Cisco said this week they are jointly demonstrating interoperability between their Remote PHY products at the annual SCTE Cable-Tec Expo this week. Given that they are widely used in the US as second sources to one another, it was in everyone’s interests that they did this as soon as possible. See coverage elsewhere in this issue on Remote PHY implementations. Mixed signal RF CMOS chip designer MaxLinear said this week that Taiwanese cable supplier Hitron Technologies, has picked MaxLinear’s full spectrum capture front end receivers to demonstrate a Full Duplex version of its CODA DOCSIS 3.1 cable modems. The demonstration will also use an Intel PUMA 7 SoC. The CableLabs Full Duplex standard has just been passed and…