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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.

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.

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.

April 21, 2016

Kyrio Sets Up NFV Interoperability Lab

CableLabs CEO Phil McKinney announced an SDN/NFV interoperability laboratory will open to all network operators and equipment vendors, not just cable companies and their suppliers. The NFV Interoperability Lab will be operated by Kyrio, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of CableLabs. Wylie Nelson, VP of Wireless & Testing at Kyrio, blogged about the details.

April 6, 2016

5G Service Innovations and Upcoming Challenges with Peter Smyth, CableLabs

Although the business opportunities laying ahead are enormous, 5G is probably 5-7 years away from a mass market consumer experience. Read the full article courtesy of 5G World News.

March 9, 2016

5G Technologies Take Spotlight

CableLabs’ CEO Phil McKinney and Belal Hamzeh, VP of Wireless Technologies, were quoted in a recap article on Mobile World Congress, which asserts that 5G was the biggest theme at the show. Read the full article in PCMag.com.

February 26, 2016

DOCSIS ® 3.1 Full Duplex Technology

CableLabs previewed its Full Duplex (now a part of DOCSIS 4.0 technology) Innovation earlier this month, announcing details that would enable operators to deliver symmetrical multi-gigabit speeds. More details available from these publications: MultiChannel News Broadband Technology Report

February 10, 2016

CableLabs launches UpRamp™ cable/broadband startup accelerator

The cable industry introduced an accelerator for cable and broadband startups: The UpRamp Fiterator™ which is sponsored by CableLabs, the cable and broadband research and development firm in Louisville. Read the full Denver Post article.