July 20, 2016

500,000 Cable Wi-Fi Hotspots

Major US cable systems allow each other's customers to access more than 500,000 Wi-Fi hotspots.  Details are available from the Cable WiFi Alliance. Check out NCTA's "Future of Wi-Fi" page for more information about Wi-Fi.

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July 19, 2016

Disruption. Innovation. Engagement.

UpRamp, sponsored by CableLabs, produced an Innovation Showcase at Cable Congress with five participants.  Read the details on UpRamp's blog.    

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July 7, 2016

Cable Congress Video Interview with Phil McKinney

Phil McKinney, President & CEO of CableLabs, provides an update to CableLabs' focus on innovation to Digital TV Europe.    

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June 20, 2016

DOCSIS 3.1 Dominates ANGA COM

Like their counterparts in North America, European cable operators are starting to embrace DOCSIS 3.1 for the multi-gigabit speeds that it promises to deliver.  Light Reading covered the discussions at the ANGA COM conference held recently in Cologne, Germany.  

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June 10, 2016

Cable Sees NFV Enhancing Network Security

The cable industry is enthused about network functions virtualization for its potential of improving network security.  CableLabs is involved in several organizations, detailed in this Light Reading article.

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May 23, 2016

Full Steam Ahead for Full Duplex DOCSIS

Although it's not quite ready for Broadway yet, Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 (now DOCSIS 4.0 technology) is earning favorable reviews in its early tryouts and may soon advance to the big stage.  Phil McKinney was interviewed by Light Reading.    

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May 10, 2016

UpRamp™ Offers Deals, Not Demo Days

Tamara Chuang, Tech Reporter at The Denver Post, blogs about the UpRamp Fiterator, the CableLabs accelerator that focuses on deals, not demo days.    

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May 2, 2016

CableLabs’ Clarke on ETSI Specs, Orchestration & a New NFV Interop Lab

Telco Transformation produced a video interview of Don Clarke.  He addressed ETSI specifications, the importance of orchestration and detailed Kyrio's  NFV / SDN Interoperability Lab.  

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May 2, 2016

Gigabit Internet Service over Cable

WIRED reported on Comcast's plans to deploy one-gigabit-per-second Internet service in five cities in 2016: Nashville, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, and Miami. The improved speeds will leverage DOCSIS® 3.1 technology.  “With 3.1 technology, we define new types of channels that use more advanced encoding, different ways of transmitting signals, so that we can pack more data into the same amount of spectrum over coaxial cable, but also use bigger pieces of the coax spectrum,” says Matt Schmitt, VP of Lab Services at CableLabs.    

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