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...
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Fiber: Laying the Groundwork for the Experience and Adaptive Eras
For years, the broadband industry’s innovative energy focused on speed: faster downloads, higher throughput, more gigabits per second. But as online activity has been...
XGS-PON Interoperability Event Wraps Productive Year of Testing
Our final Interop·Labs event of 2025 was held last month at CableLabs headquarters in Louisville, Colorado. As with prior events, the week focused on...
The Pull of PNM: More Proactive, Less Maintenance Please
Proactive network maintenance (PNM) continues to make inroads on its goals of reducing troubleshooting time and cost while reducing the impact of network impairments...
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...
Thinking Outside the Box: Serving MTUs With Fiber
When we chartered the FTTP Operators Forum, our goal was to create a space where technology experts, engineers, business leaders and operations professionals could...
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...
PON Event Continues to Explore and Evolve Equipment Interoperability
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...
A Jolt of Light: CableLabs Holds First 200G P2P Coherent Optics Interop
Anyone remember the jingle for Jolt® Cola? All the sugar and twice the caffeine! Perhaps the phrase dates me, but I still hear it...
Release of New FMA Specs Opens Door for Interop Events
We are pleased to announce today’s issuance of new versions of the Flexible MAC Architecture (FMA) System and MAC Manager Interface (MMI) specifications. This...
Finishing the P2P Coherent Optics Puzzle
This past June, CableLabs publicly released the first issued version of the Coherent Termination Device (CTD) Requirements Specification. The same month, the Institute of...