Five years ago this week… Almost three years in the making, Harmonic finalized the deal of a lifetime – signing up cable behemoth Comcast to license its CableOS (now cOS) virtual broadband platform over four years for at least $175 million in software license fees. Comcast grew increasingly close to Harmonic after the operator completed field trials of CableOS in summer 2018. Although a 2016 agreement between the two made Harmonic the favored supplier of Comcast, the operator also deployed Arris’ E-6000 Gen 2 modules in 2018 for converged cable access platform (CCAP) architecture. A switch out scenario was not the likely option however, as Arris has been known for providing flexibility in CCAP, supporting both R-PHY and R-MAC-PHY. CNN couldn’t even secure…