Some confusion surrounds the overlapping product portfolios of Arris and new parent company Commscope. Commscope has just launched a new Remote PHY device for the burgeoning distributed access architecture (DAA) market, called the RD1322 2×2, enabling operators to harness existing network infrastructure to ultimately achieve 10G services. It appears the new Commscope RD1322 2×2 avoids stepping on the toes of its subsidiary, and vice versa, because the R-PHY device plugs directly into the vendor’s existing base of NC4- and OM4-series fiber nodes. This relates to a specific area of Outside Plant (OSP) DAA products, designed to allow operators to build upon their installed base of nodes to make waves in Extended Spectrum DOCSIS (ESD), Full Duplex DOCSIS (FDX), DAA, Remote…