1996
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CableNET CEO tour. -
Demo of cable modem versus DSL and dial up. -
Test systems at CableLabs HQ. -
The late Jim Robbins with Dick Green. -
CableLabs digital booth at SCTE Tec Expo.
Video
April 1996: General Instrument (now Motorola) and Divicom pass CableLabs' MPEG-2 Encoder tests.
May 1996: MPEG LA, LLC created, to manage the licensing of MPEG-2 related intellectual property rights.
July 1996: Enhanced Services Deployment Group, chaired by Tony Werner (then of Tele-Communications Inc.) is formed to develop a series of guidelines for cable system operations personnel to consider when they launch new broadband services such as high-speed data, telephony and interactive services.
Data
January 1996: An expanded web initiative aimed at facilitating a major cable industry presence on the Internet is announced as a strategic priority for CableLabs.
September 1996: Five vendors - Com 21, General Instrument, Hewlett-Packard, LANcity and Motorola - are chosen as "vendor authors" for the high-speed data specifications that became DOCSIS (Data over Cable Service Interface Specification).
December 1996: The name "DOCSIS," for "Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification," is adopted as a working project name.
Early History
1996: CableLabs, with Rogers Cablesystems Ltd., opens a "TAC Test Centre" in Toronto. The Centre's role: To rigorously test the gear and tools used by cable technicians. Test candidates included power-passing taps, consumer-grade splitters, digital test equipment, and hardline connectors (among many others).
Network
1996: An Enhanced Services Task Force, chaired by Tony Werner (then at Tele-Communications Inc.), published a deployment guide, written by member-company engineers who had already deployed digital services. The guide covered the impact of digital on headends, network operations centers, and training.
1996: CableLabs opened its TAC Test Center in Toronto in conjunction with Rogers Cablesystems Ltd. Intent: To rigorously test the tools used by cable technicians.
April 1996: General Instrument (now Motorola) and Divicom pass CableLabs' MPEG-2 Encoder tests.
May 1996: MPEG LA, LLC created, to manage the licensing of MPEG-2 related intellectual property rights.
July 1996: Enhanced Services Deployment Group, chaired by Tony Werner (then of Tele-Communications Inc.) is formed to develop a series of guidelines for cable system operations personnel to consider when they launch new broadband services such as high-speed data, telephony and interactive services.
Data
January 1996: An expanded web initiative aimed at facilitating a major cable industry presence on the Internet is announced as a strategic priority for CableLabs.
September 1996: Five vendors - Com 21, General Instrument, Hewlett-Packard, LANcity and Motorola - are chosen as "vendor authors" for the high-speed data specifications that became DOCSIS (Data over Cable Service Interface Specification).
December 1996: The name "DOCSIS," for "Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification," is adopted as a working project name.
Early History
1996: CableLabs, with Rogers Cablesystems Ltd., opens a "TAC Test Centre" in Toronto. The Centre's role: To rigorously test the gear and tools used by cable technicians. Test candidates included power-passing taps, consumer-grade splitters, digital test equipment, and hardline connectors (among many others).
Network
1996: An Enhanced Services Task Force, chaired by Tony Werner (then at Tele-Communications Inc.), published a deployment guide, written by member-company engineers who had already deployed digital services. The guide covered the impact of digital on headends, network operations centers, and training.
1996: CableLabs opened its TAC Test Center in Toronto in conjunction with Rogers Cablesystems Ltd. Intent: To rigorously test the tools used by cable technicians.