The unicast video-over-MPEG market includes MPEG-based digital cable services such as video-on-demand, network DVR, switched digital video, interactive gaming, and interactive TV. The television viewing trend is evolving to become completely on-demand and interactive. The common thread for all these services is that they require very high edge bandwidth. The edge device providing the digital bandwidth for MPEG-based unicast video traffic today is the simple Edge-QAM. The Casa C10G and C100G CMTSs can be used as a higher density and lower cost replacement of the simple Edge-QAM. The C10G and C100G can be upgraded to support IP service when the edge network needs to migrate to all-IP. Deploying the C10G not only gives the MSOs initial capital savings, but also gives them investment protection.