Gain-Xtend family of products provides MSOs a holistic approach for migrating to a distributed network architecture, bringing the benefits of capacity scaling, elasticity and adaptability to counter changes in consumer data consumption patterns. As MSOs push fiber deeper into their access networks and deploy ever larger number of fiber deep nodes the Net-Xtend products fulfill essential new network functions. The number of deployed fiber nodes is anticipated to increase by a factor of 10 which requires MSOs to rethink ways to monitor and control hundred of thousands of nodes, control cost and eliminate unnecessary increases of HE ports.