CableLabs is the non-profit development laboratory that works with cable television operators globally to create new business opportunities based on innovative technologies. Our technical achievements have enabled cable operators to fundamentally advance their broadband, digital voice and interactive video services to provide consumers and businesses … learn more.
Meet CableLabs. Our sole mission is to create, nurture and deploy the technologies that help our industry members reinvent cable and broaden its reach. The very same desire to create and to innovate that has propelled your career is alive and well here—and has been for over 20 years. Come … join us … because at CableLabs, you’ll be playing a vital role in revolutionizing cable technology as well as your own career.
High-speed data services over cable's hybrid fiber-coaxial plant enable cable customers to access information at lightning-fast speeds. At CableLabs® this work is a part of the DOCSIS® program.
Cable's digital voice delivers residential voice services using a managed Internet Protocol-based data network. This is the PacketCable™ program at CableLabs.
There are more ways of interacting with your television than just clicking on the remote control. Cable operators are rapidly adding new technology to their headends. The consumer brand name for this initiative is tru2way®, a CableLabs® program known internally as OpenCable™.
By improving advanced advertising technologies, CableLabs® is providing the cable industry new and powerful ways for advertisers to deliver their message—through interactive, targeted and addressable formats. This is the Advertising & Interactive Services program at CableLabs®.
Cable Information Services (CIS) provides secure, scalable industry-wide data and information services to help cable companies prosper … learn more.
Much of the new revenue growth in the cable industry is currently being driven by 'Business Class' services—providing voice, video, and high-speed data services to small and medium businesses. CableLabs® is working to accelerate the industry's growth in this strategic market by developing interoperable technology solutions that facilitate the deployment of new business services … learn more.
CableNET is an annual "exhibit within an exhibit" designed to showcase advanced content and services that cable customers may see and experience in the near future. Its objectives also include demonstrating the benefits of new broadband services to public officials, the media, the financial community, and others interested in the future of cable television … learn more.
   

Recent News

09/01/10

CableLabs® Publishes First 3D Content Encoding Specification
CableLabs® announced today that it has published a new specification as a guide for producers, programmers and aggregators of stereoscopic 3D programming. This new specification, called Content Encoding Profiles 3.0 Specification … 

08/03/10

Tru2way® Home Networking Event Demonstrates DVR Content Sharing Between Set Tops and DLNA Certified® Devices
A CableLabs® interop demonstrated sharing of premium DVR content among multiple tru2way® set-top boxes and Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)  … 

07/19/10

CableLabs® Media Advisory
CableLabs will host a media briefing via conference call on Monday, August 16, at 2 p.m. MDT. The call will focus  … 

06/30/10

CableLabs® Advertising Event Proves Interoperability on SCTE 130 Standard
CableLabs'® recent multi-faceted Advanced Advertising Interop successfully demonstrated interoperability across a number of advertising interfaces as envisioned by  … 

02/26/10

ETV/EBIF Candidate Specification I06
CableLabs® has posted the latest ETV/EBIF (Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format) candidate specification I06, which features functionality developed to meet competitive interactive television market requirements and will widen the range of EBIF-enhanced programming, advertising and applications. As a candidate specification, it is available under a non-disclosure agreement to any parties who wish to begin development of applications or user agents.

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CableLabs Events

Dates: February 27–March 2, 2011 Location: Atlanta, GA

Winter Conference

Atlanta Marriott Marquis

Dates: August 7–10, 2011 Location: Keystone, GA

Summer Conference

The Keystone Resort & Conference Center

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