Policy
The Case for Additional Unlicensed Spectrum
March 19, 2024
Today and for the foreseeable future, Wi-Fi is the technology most devices and applications use to connect to the internet. As technology advances, those devices and applications will require more data to deliver high-quality experiences for increasingly immersive, compute-intensive applications. To further support the emergence of high-fidelity video conferencing, cloud gaming, virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality […]
Driving Toward 10G and Beyond: CableLabs Engagement in Standards Organizations and Industry Consortia
August 9, 2021
CableLabs continues to engage heavily with—and to play a key leadership role across—a broad group of global information and communications technology standards development organizations (SDOs) and industry consortia. These engagements enable CableLabs to influence emerging technologies and leverage our technical expertise and global recognition as a leading industry innovation lab to provide meaningful contributions and […]
More Than 70 State Legislators Experience the Future of Connectivity at CableLabs
November 7, 2019
For the past several years, CableLabs has annually hosted a large group of state legislators from dozens of states across the country to discuss the future of broadband connectivity. It was our privilege to repeat that honor recently, both to showcase the cable industry’s innovation roadmap and to listen to the interests and concerns of […]
Driving Increased Security in All IoT Devices
September 18, 2019
CableLabs engages with the IoT industry and the broader stakeholder community, including governments, to help drive increased IoT device security. The rapid proliferation of IoT devices has the potential to transform and enrich our lives and to drive significant productivity gains in the broader economy. However, the lack of sufficient security in a meaningful number […]
Driving Global Connectivity Well Beyond Cable Technology
April 15, 2019
CableLabs participates in more than 30 unique standards organizations, industry consortia, and open source efforts. CableLabs is focused on developing innovative technologies, not only in the performance of cable’s hybrid fiber coax (HFC) networks, but also in many areas that extend beyond the traditional cable network, including wireless (both licensed and unlicensed), cybersecurity, network function […]
The Gigabit Internet Dream Continues to Expand
November 1, 2018
Cable gigabit service availability continues to expand – as of June 2018, 63% of U.S. housing units – 74% of the cable broadband footprint – had gigabit service or better available from their local cable operator. This is up seven percentage points in just three months and has expanded by 16X in 18 months. Cable […]
#EEDay2018
October 5, 2018
Today is Energy Efficiency Day, a collaborative effort of regional and national organizations working to promote energy efficiency. CableLabs has been a strong supporter of energy efficiency for many years and is involved in a number of related initiatives: CableLabs leads the technical efforts for three highly impactful energy efficiency Voluntary Agreements (VA) in North […]
Legislators at the Labs
October 3, 2018
Eighty politicians walked into a lab… That’s not the start of a joke, it was actually the start of our week here at CableLabs! We were excited and honored to host state representatives and senators from across the U.S. on Monday, and to show them the exciting innovation happening in the cable industry. Our day […]
A Super-Fast, Super-Connected Wireless Future Requires a Balanced Spectrum Policy
August 15, 2018
This article was originally published by Morning Consult on Aug. 9, 2018. You can find the post here. Recently, the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing on the race to 5G, exploring how we can harness the power of wired and wireless broadband to drive transformative communications innovation, and what the government can do to support and […]
A Milestone in Wi-Fi / LTE-U Coexistence
September 21, 2016
Today is an important milestone for unlicensed spectrum coexistence – the Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA) has released its plan for testing how well LTE-Unlicensed coexists with Wi-Fi. This culminates many months of work by many expert engineers within the WFA and its membership, including CableLabs staff. The outcome is that we now have a definitive set […]