OFC 2026: What We Saw and What It Means for Broadband
Optical technologies are playing an increasingly central role in how networks are built, scaled and operated. As demand for compute and connectivity grows, the...
Dr. Steve Jia
Fellow & Director of Advanced Optical Technologies
Quantum-Proof Security in a Post-Quantum Era: QKD in Fiber Networks
As fiber networks continue to evolve to meet the demands of next-generation connectivity, a new data security issue has emerged. The security of modern...
Unlocking Optical Fiber’s Potential: Distributed Sensing for Smarter Networks
As cable networks evolve to meet the demands of next-generation connectivity, a quiet transformation is unfolding within the fibers that carry our data. Distributed...
Coherent Optics in 2025: Scaling Speed, Efficiency and Reliability for Emerging Applications
The optical communications industry is undergoing a profound transformation. As bandwidth demands surge — driven by AI workloads, cloud-scale data centers and global satellite...
AI and Machine Learning: Lighting the Way for Optical Advancements
One of the key roles that CableLabs plays for our member operators and the vendor community is tracking trends in key areas of the...
See You at OFC 2022
The 2022 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC)—the hub of the optical industry and the premier event in fiber communications and networking—will take...
Everything You Want to Know About Coherent Optics for Access Networks (But Were Afraid to Ask)
The cable industry has been well served by its extensive fiber deployment that took place during the initial hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) buildout. Even though...
Forward Error Correction (FEC): A Primer on the Essential Element for Optical Transmission Interoperability
Forward error correction (FEC) has been a powerful tool in the cable industry for many years. In fact, perhaps the single biggest performance improvement...
What is Full Duplex Coherent Optics?
A brand new innovation, Full Duplex Coherent Optics uses the same wavelength, in two different directions, over the same fiber at the same time. As a...
Doubling up on Fiber Capacity: A Winning Strategy for Full Duplex Coherent Optics
During our 2017 Winter Conference, CableLabs announced the launch of the point-to-point (P2P) Coherent Optics specification project, potentially multiplying the capacity of each existing...
It’s Only Wireless for THIS long
Why the underlying fiber network is critical to mobile communications. — The explosion in popularity of the mobile game Pokémon Go has triggered unprecedented attention...