wifi
5 Reasons Why Your Internet Has Slowed Down and How You Can Fix It
April 15, 2020
As most of the world is now under stay-at-home orders and social isolation guidelines, this makes the internet more popular than ever. While we all do our part to work and learn from home, you may be wondering if the internet can handle this much traffic? Fortunately, the answer is a resounding YES! Our members […]
A Sneak Peek of SCTE Cable-Tec Expo
September 13, 2016
CableLabs and Kyrio will be hosting a booth at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2016. To provide you with a sneak peek of what we plan to show at the event, below are highlights of six demonstrations: Full Duplex DOCSIS® 3.1 Technology With Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 technology, the HFC network can support 10 Gbps Downstream […]
Li-Fi – A Bright Future for Home Networks
March 8, 2016
At CableLabs, we are continually researching new methods of in-home wireless network distribution, and one exciting new contender is Li-Fi. What is Li-Fi? Li-Fi is the modulation of a free-space beam of light in order to transmit a signal. It can be thought of as analogous to Wi-Fi, just in a much higher frequency band […]
First Impressions of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
February 23, 2016
CableLabs is hosting its first tour of Mobile World Congress (MWC) here in Barcelona, Spain. The MWC is the World’s largest mobile congress with attendance likely to top over one hundred thousand people from two hundred countries. It’s the place to be seen in the mobile world, which today is more than about handsets and […]
Coming Up for Air on LTE-U Coexistence: An Update
February 12, 2016
If you have been tracking CableLabs’ work to ensure that the introduction of LTE into unlicensed spectrum does not do disproportionate harm to Wi-Fi consumers, you may have noticed that it has been a while since we wrote in this blog on the topic. That’s not because we’ve moved on, however. To the contrary, we’ve […]
Fair LTE-U Coexistence Far From Proven In CableLabs / Qualcomm Testing
November 11, 2015
CableLabs has been working hard to ensure that the introduction of LTE into unlicensed spectrum is a win for wireless broadband, and that it does not disrupt the Wi-Fi services that consumers have come to rely on. We have covered in prior posts why that is a challenge, since LTE-U can take advantage of Wi-Fi’s […]
Wi-Fi vs. Duty Cycled LTE-U: In-Home Testing Reveals Coexistence Challenges
November 5, 2015
Rob Alderfer, VP Technology Policy, CableLabs and Nadia Yoza-Mitsuishi, Wireless Architect Intern, CableLabs also contributed to this article. In our last blog on Wi-Fi / LTE coexistence, we laid out the dangers attending the apparent decision of a few large carriers to go forward with the carrier scale deployment of a non-standard form of unlicensed […]
Can a Wi-Fi radio detect Duty Cycled LTE?
June 24, 2015
For my third blog I thought I’d give you preview of a side project I’ve been working on. The original question was pretty simple: Can I use a Wi-Fi radio to identify the presence of LTE? Before we go into what I’m finding, let’s recap: We know LTE is coming into the unlicensed spectrum in […]
A Look at CableLabs, from CEO Phil McKinney
May 8, 2014
Phil McKinney, CEO at CableLabs, recently wrote an article for Cablefax highlighting the history and work of CableLabs within the cable industry. Here is a snippet, and be sure to follow the link to read the entire article: “Today’s cable industry is a far cry from what it was twenty years ago when the Internet was […]
Carrier-Grade Wi-Fi Keeps Pace With Wi-Fi Network Growth: How CableLabs is Contributing
April 28, 2014
“Operators of all kinds – fixed, mobile, converged and pure-play Wi-Fi – are moving beyond using Wi-Fi just for convenient access, or data offload, and are making it a central part of their broader strategies to support a high quality broadband experience everywhere.” (Excerpt from WBA Industry Report 2013: Global Trends in Public Wi-Fi p3) Over […]