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CableLabs is Excited to Participate in APOStech 2017 in Hong Kong
July 5, 2017
CableLabs is participating in the 2nd Annual APOStech conference this week (July 4-6, 2017) in Hong Kong. Hosted by Media Partners Asia (MPA) and co-sponsored by CableLabs, APOStech is one of Asia’s premier technology and innovation summits. With over 180 participants from around the globe representing cable, telecom and media sectors, the event unites executives […]

CableLabs Loves Pedal Power: Our Bike to Work Day Story
June 14, 2017
It’s that time of year again! While most of the country celebrates Bike to Work Day in May, Colorado waits for the snow to melt and designates every June as Bike to Work Month and June 28th, 2017 as #BikeToWorkDay. Whether you bike for health, to get to work, preserve the environment, or simply for […]

Human and Computer Cognition
September 7, 2016
In my mind, the future is not in how we interact with computers, but how computers interact with us, and how lifelike we can make the series of connected artificial intelligence that will become a part of our daily lives. What do I mean by Artificial Intelligence? My view of AI is a program capable […]

Solutions for Whole Home Wi-Fi Coverage
May 12, 2016
For the majority of homeowners, a single Wi-Fi Access Point (AP) is enough to provide whole home coverage with reliable performance. However, there are homes where a single AP provides insufficient coverage or has unreliable performance in certain areas of the home. For example, as the size of the house increases (> 3000 square feet), […]

Are Wi-Fi Repeaters and Extenders Beneficial?
February 23, 2016
Subscribers today often supplement their existing Wi-Fi Access Points (AP) with wireless repeaters and extenders to enhance Wi-Fi coverage within the home network. Frequently, we are asked if these devices provide any real benefit. To answer these questions, we ran some tests in a house to measure and compare the relative performance of a couple […]

The Cost of Codecs: Royalty-Bearing Video Compression Standards and the Road that Lies Ahead
February 1, 2016
Since the dawn of digital video, royalty-bearing codecs have always been the gold standard for much of the distribution and consumption of our favorite TV shows, movies, and other personal and commercial content. Since the early 90’s, the Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG) has defined the formats and technologies for video compression that allow all […]

UPnP, OIC, and Cable
December 9, 2015
On November 23, UPnP Forum announced that Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC), one of the major standards efforts focused on the Internet of Things, would be acquiring the assets of UPnP forum. The news was generally lauded in the international press as one substantial step in reducing the disarray that is the Internet of Things. This […]

An Invitation to Hack in Dallas
October 20, 2015
During the past couple months, CableLabs has been engaged with The MEF Forum in planning of the first-ever Lifecycle Service Orchestration Hackathon. The LSO Hackathon as mentioned in this press release will take place alongside the MEF’s GEN 15 conference in Dallas from Nov 16 to 18. The LSO Hackathon will bring together software developers and […]