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April 23, 2021

CableLabs Announces New Mobile Convergence Committee and Convergence Council

Last week CableLabs announced Mobile Convergence Committee and the Convergence Council, led by Chief Research Development Officer (CRDO) Mariam Sorond. The Convergence Council will also be working very closely with the newly announced Mobile Convergence Committee to ensure a comprehensive industry engagement on our future work. Read more about what the industry influencers and thought leaders involved in the committee and council have to say about the future of convergence.

February 23, 2021

Experts Discuss How Minimize the Risk of Cyberattacks

Experts say that "hardware components should be built separately from software to minimize the risk of cyberattacks." Even though hardware from cyberattacks can be complicated because of how they're built, "separating and sealing off parts of hardware from software can prevent against system failures or even accidents." CableLabs' Brian Scriber, joined the conversation and explained "Just because a device may have delivered trust in the past three years, doesn’t mean you can trust it in the next minute." Read more about insulating hardware from software crucial for security of devices.

February 2, 2021

CableLabs Teams up to Collaborate on Global Open Ran Issues

Big news this week as CableLabs teamed up with BSA | The Software Alliance, GSMA, Open RAN Policy Coalition and Telecom Infra Project to collaborate on global Open RAN issues.

January 26, 2021

New Year, New Emmy Award

CableLabs is honored to receive a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for the development of the event signaling and management API standard! We'd like to congratulate other honorees including SCTE•ISBE, Comcast, CommScope and Charter Communications - just to name a few. “The Technology & Engineering Emmy Award was the first Emmy Award issued in 1949 and it laid the groundwork for all the other Emmys to come,” said Adam Sharp, CEO & President, NATAS. “We are extremely happy about honoring these prestigious companies, again in partnership with NAB, where the intersection of innovation, technology and excitement in the future of

January 19, 2021

CableLabs Wins 2021 BIG Innovation Award

Last week, CableLabs was honored with a Technology BIG Innovation Award presented by Business Intelligence Group. "The BIG Innovation Awards recognize those organizations and people who bring new ideas to life. Whether that idea is big or small, these ideas change the way we experience the world. Unlike other programs, nominations are judged by recognizable leaders, not editors or writers with limited business experience." Read more about BIG Innovation Awards and see the other honorees!

January 5, 2021

CableLabs Continues to Hit More Milestones on the Path to 10G

CableLabs 10G journey began back in 2019, "CableLabs and its members have worked together to create and introduce technologies that serve as building blocks for the foundation of a 10G network." In 2020 alone, CableLabs reached numerous milestones on the path to 10G, including: DOCSIS 4.0 Technology Intelligent Wireless Network Steering (IWiNS) FMA Spec Release 25G/50G-EPON Increasing Wi-Fi performance Field-testing the 10G platform for the first time And more! Read more about all of the 10G milestones that were hit in 2020.

December 3, 2020

Kyrio Partners with Wireless Broadband Alliance

Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) just announced users of the new OpenRoaming™ service "will be granted enterprise-level security, thanks to a partnership with infrastructure security experts, Kyrio." "As part of the new partnership, Kyrio a subsidiary of CableLabs® will join Google and Cisco as an Issuing Intermediate Certificate Authority (ICA), providing innovative agent and registration authority services to the broader WBA family, including networks, operators, hubs and identity providers." Read more about this new partnership.

November 9, 2020

CableLabs: Accelerating Collaboration, Alignment and Innovation with SCTE•ISBE

Members of the SCTE•ISBE (Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers) and its international arm International Society Broadband Experts (ISBE) will be voting to combine forces with CableLabs, streamlining the cable industry’s technology-based associations by uniting its two largest engineering organizations into one. If approved, the transaction will ensure that the industry will not only meet the current pace of change – but be in a position to accelerate it. What will this mean for CableLabs members? To continue the industry’s commitment to 10G, the increased alignment of investments, resources, innovation and execution is critical. Engaging vendor and international relationships create efficiencies

October 28, 2020

CableLabs Member, Vodafone Germany, Now Has 22 Million Gigabit Connections Available in 13 Federal States

An additional 730,000 connections in the Vodafone cable fiber-optic network now offer gigabit-speed! "Vodafone has thus completed the gigabit upgrade in its cable fiber-optic network in 13 German states and completed the largest gigabit expansion project in Germany. Around 12.6 million cable households now have gigabit Internet access in Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland." Congratulations to Vodafone Germany! Read more about how more customers will have access to high speed internet.