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Test House
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Testing Services Lab
Test House
The Test House replicates real home environments and is specifically designed to test the performance of Wi-Fi devices in real-world conditions. In the 5,000-square-foot facility in Brighton, Colorado, our experienced engineering team delineates test plans and procedures, catering to specific operator needs, and then provides a detailed report with comprehensive analysis once testing is complete.
Lab Equipment and Capabilities
Traffic generators including Ixia and ByteBlower to enable variable gigabit traffic pattern testing
House-made polarization modulators based on phase modulators and Faraday mirrors
Polarization-entangled photon source from OZ Optics
Capability to manage up to 50 Wi-Fi clients with a mix of 802.11ac, n, b, g and ax to test against various construction media and furniture placement
DOCSIS® CMTS to test gateways and modems
Meet Our Lab Expert
Ben Gardner
Ben Gardner is a wireless engineer at CableLabs. His area of focus involves designing test plans and improving existing ones. He has experience with both Keysight and Spirent and uses both test platforms to implement and run tests within the wireless lab and at the CableLabs test house.
Gardner began his career with CableLabs four years ago as a contractor. He joined DISH Network for four years as the company’s Lead Keysight Wireless Engineer before rejoining CableLabs as a full-time employee in 2024. Outside of work hours, he spends his time camping and playing soccer.
Testing Services Lab
CableLabs and it’s subsidiary, Kyrio Inc., offer the facilities and expertise required to test Wi-Fi, Passive Optical Networking (PON) and 4G/5G equipment. It is the first Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Open Test and Integration Center in the Americas, used for the testing of interoperable RAN equipment for mobile networks.
In addition, the Testing Services Lab is an authorized certification lab for devices designed to any version of CableLabs DOCSIS technologies and PacketCable™ 1.5. A device with a “CableLabs Certified” or “CableLabs Qualified” rating has passed a series of compliance tests and has demonstrated interoperable functionality with other CableLabs Certified devices. Developed in cooperation with cable operators and cable equipment manufacturers, this premier certification lab is designed to facilitate the manufacture of interoperable cable devices, including cable modems, set-top boxes, digital TV devices and telephony equipment.
The Testing Services Lab holds ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation from the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA).
Lab Equipment and Capabilities
New feature/technology assessment
Customer issue assessment
Consultation services
Comparative analysis
Assessment
Certification
Conformance
Interoperability
Performance
Anechoic chamber
Several semi-anechoic chambers
Meet Our Lab Expert
Taylor Gordon
Taylor Gordon is Manager of Wired Testing for CableLabs, focusing on DOCSIS testing. He is responsible for the CableLabs Certification program, as well as several Multiple System Operator (MSO) test programs within wired testing.
Gordon has been a full-time employee in the lab services team for six years. He began his career as an intern at CableLabs while finishing his bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Technology at Brigham Young University–Idaho.
Explore Our Other Labs
In the Next Generation Technologies Lab, we experiment and investigate technologies such as quantum encryption.
These labs host advanced technologies and expertise including Advanced Optics & Fiber, Hybrid Fiber Coax, Mobile, Wi-Fi, Convergence, Cloud Native, Security, Wireless PHY/RF Analysis and AI and Machine Learning. These can be interconnected to simulate a wide range of network architectures and scenarios.
The System & Device Test Environments can be configured to simulate wide-ranging scenarios—from large anechoic chambers to 3D-printed radio frequency (RF) modeling to advanced optics benches.