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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.

February 10, 2016

CableLabs and Cisco Announce Open Source Software for Future of Virtualization in Cable

Today CableLabs and Cisco are announcing the creation of a new software project for the Remote PHY Device (RPD) labeled "OpenRPD" originally developed by Cisco and contributed to the open source environment hosted at CableLabs. Read the full Cisco press release.

February 4, 2016

Comcast Names First Five DOCSIS 3.1 Markets

Comcast plans to introduce DOCSIS®3.1-based gigabit service to residential and business customers in Atlanta and Nashville in early 2016, with Chicago, Detroit and Miami scheduled to follow in the second half of the year. Read the full article in Broadband Technology Report. According to ABI Research, DOCSIS 3.1 technology is forecasted to reach nine million subscribers by 2017.

January 22, 2016

CEO Chat with Phil McKinney

At CES in Las Vegas, Light Reading's Steve Saunders interviewed Phil McKinney, CEO of CableLabs. Phil provided an update on the DOCSIS® 3.1 rollout, his views on the future of open source and how consumer interest in virtual reality could affect network traffic. View the full video interview.

January 13, 2016

Five New CableLabs certified DOCSIS 3.1 cable modem products usher in a new generation of broadband services

Vendors Askey, Castlenet, Netgear, Technicolor and Ubee Interactive are now certified with more certifications to come in early 2016. LOUISVILLE, Colo, Jan. 13, 2016 – CableLabs, the research and development lab for the cable industry, today announced that five cable modem vendors have achieved the first DOCSIS 3.1 certifications. Newly certified products from Askey, Castlenet, Netgear, Technicolor and Ubee Interactive provide cable operators with critical components for a new generation of DOCSIS 3.1 services which demand multi-gigabit speeds. Certification verifies compliance to the specifications, interoperability among products and enables competition and choice in the marketplace. This represents the greatest number

January 5, 2016

CableLabs Researching Small Cell Capacity

The cable industry is in the midst of gearing up for 5G. Specifically, according to Peter Smyth of CableLabs, cable operators could provide the high-speed small cells to wireless operators that would support connections up to 40 Gbps. Read the full article in FierceWirelessTech.