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November 10, 2015

CableLabs Pushes Sensor Rollout

As the cable industry expands its Internet of Things offering, smart sensors are expected to play a critical role. CableLabs has been working with healthcare providers and organizations on the use of sensors in areas like in-home health, health monitoring, and in-hospital systems, CableLabs CEO Phil McKinney said in an interview. More details are provided in an article written by Joyce Wang in CableFAX.

October 29, 2015

VIDEO: LTE-U / Wi-Fi Coexistence

Rob Alderfer, VP of Technology Policy at CableLabs, is interviewed by RCR Wireless News. Possible co-existence problems between Wi-Fi & LTE-U / LAA, Wi-Fi & LTE coexistence and the complications that LTE-U may cause are discussed.

October 21, 2015

Speed, Agility and Virtualization

Light Reading elaborates on how cable companies have re-architected their networks to deliver video -- the IP way.

October 19, 2015

Virtual Reality: The Next Application Platform

Steve Glennon, Principal Architect at CableLabs, provides his view on virtual reality in this CED Magazine article.

October 12, 2015

CableLabs and SCTE strengthen relationship through Visiting Engineer Program

“We are pleased to welcome Niem Dang as the SCTE Visiting Engineer at CableLabs,” stated CableLabs CTO Ralph Brown, who is also a board member of the SCTE and ISBE. “Her participation in our projects will strengthen the great relationship we have with SCTE. The ability for SCTE to be even more tightly plugged into our efforts will speed the deployment of technologies developed through CableLabs.” Read more about the relationship in MultiChannel News.

September 22, 2015

News from the DOCSIS 3.1 Interop:

The superfast, multi-gigabit Internet speeds Comcast and other cable TV companies have promised will be reality next year, and the technology was on display at CableLabs. Read the full article from The Denver Business Journal. CableLabs held court at its headquarters on September 21 to show that DOCSIS 3.1, cable’s multi-gigabit platform for HFC networks, is ready to go as operators prepare to test and trial the platform. Read the full article from MultiChannel News. DOCSIS 3.1 is Right on Schedule: Read the full article from Light Reading. DOCSIS 3.1 is just about there. Read the full article from Broadband

September 9, 2015

The Cable Industry Moves to DOCSIS 3.1 and 1 Gbps Speeds

Almost three years ago, Google's Chairman Eric Schmidt announced that the company's Google Fiber effort -- which provides fiber-based 1 Gbps Internet speeds -- was a real thing. "It's actually not an experiment. We're actually running it as a business," he said at a conference in December 2012. That's almost exactly the same time that CableLabs began to work on the DOCSIS 3.1 standard, which some U.S. cable operators expect to begin deploying commercially early next year. DOCSIS 3.1 technology is essentially the cable industry's competitive response to fiber networks and their 1 Gbps Internet speeds. -- complete article available

August 24, 2015

CableLabs Reports Accelerated Development of DOCSIS® 3.1 Gear

CableLabs said it has successfully completed four equipment interoperability events (interops) related to DOCSIS 3.1 and will soon begin product certifications. In a blog post written by Belal Hamzeh, Director of Broadband Evolution for the cable-industry consortium, CableLabs reports that "excellent progress" has been made by cable modem and cable modem termination system (CMTS) vendors, along with other makers of cable network equipment, in their effort to deploy DOCSIS 3.1 into the field. FierceCable provides more insight.

August 17, 2015

Cable is Looking at Virtual Reality

Transcending the boundaries of traditional television, virtual reality may be The Next Big Thing. CableLabs CEO Phil McKinney discussed his observations with Variety Magazine.