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PON Event Continues to Explore and Evolve Equipment Interoperability

August 20, 2025

The latest CableLabs Interop·Labs CPMP XGS-PON event took place Aug. 4–7 in our Louisville, Colorado, labs and was designed to test the ONU Management and Control Interface (OMCI). The event focused on exercising a core subset of the OMCI requirements defined by a combination of the ITU-T Recommendation G.988 and CableLabs’ Cable OpenOMCI specifications. For […]

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Driving Alignment: New Progress Toward XGS-PON Equipment Interoperability

May 16, 2025

With more and more CableLabs member operators deploying or preparing to deploy ITU-T-based passive optical networking (PON) technologies such as XGS-PON, interoperability of equipment from different vendors is more important than ever. One well-known source for the lack of cross-vendor interoperability of XGS-PON equipment stems from differing implementations of the ONU Management Control Interface (OMCI) […]

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Event Advances Progress and Promise of DOCSIS Provisioning of XGS-PON

March 18, 2025

At the recent DOCSIS® Provisioning of XGS-PON Interop·Labs event at CableLabs, suppliers of PON optical line terminals (OLTs) exercised their systems’ ability to configure XGS-PON optical network units (ONUs) via the use of DOCSIS-style configuration files. The event took place February 24–28 at our headquarters in Louisville, Colorado. CableLabs member operators have long been familiar […]

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PON Plugfest Helps Move Industry Closer to New Era of Interoperability

November 22, 2024

In the broadband industry, network operators and vendors are continually working together to advance interoperability and streamline operations — but the puzzle pieces don’t always fall into place easily. Passive optical networks (PONs), for example, face the ongoing challenge of achieving interoperability without stifling innovation. PON standards are intentionally written to be flexible and to […]

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