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CableLabs’ Optical Center of Excellence Expands to Support PON

January 10, 2024 Wired

Optical communication — transmitting light waves through fiber optic cables — continues to be the foundation for providing high-speed broadband services to consumers. Whether...

Why Accelerating FTTP Adoption Is Critical to Leveraging PON’s Potential

October 25, 2023 Wired

Alongside the hustle and bustle in the cable industry to deploy DOCSIS® 4.0 technology, another 10G solution quietly plods along with pinpoint precision: fiber...

Get Ready for 100G: CPON Architecture Specification Issued

May 4, 2023 Wired

The advancements of coherent passive optical networks (CPON) will lead to a robust and noticeable boost to the customer experience in businesses and the...

CableLabs Specifications Move From De Facto to De Jure

October 6, 2020 DOCSIS

The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines de facto and de jure as follows: de facto | di-ˈfak-(ˌ)tō – actual, exercising power as if legally constituted...

25G/50G-EPON Standard Crosses the Finish Line – Enhancing Fiber Deployments as Part of Cable’s 10G Platform

July 23, 2020 Networks

Nobody knows the extent to which broadband speeds will continue to increase over the next 5-10 years, but service providers intend to be certain...

Debunking the Myths of Shared Networks: The Point-to-Multipoint Effect

October 11, 2016 Wired

“I don’t want to have to share a pipe. The problem with ‘cable’ is shared pipes. If my neighbor is doing a bunch of...

Keeping Pace with Nielsen’s Law

September 15, 2016 Networks, Strategy, Wired

The telecommunications industry typically uses Nielsen’s Law of Internet Bandwidth to represent historical broadband Internet speeds and to forecast future broadband Internet speeds. Mr....

Passive Optical Networking – for the Next Generation

July 29, 2015 Cable Information Architecture, Networking, Networks, Wired

Service providers invest billions of dollars in their access networks. Ideally, the deployed technology meets consumer demand for many years, allowing service providers to...

OnePON™: Addressing the Alphabet Soup of PON

May 12, 2014 Networks, Wired

APON, BPON, EPON, GEPON, GPON, G.epon, NGPON1, XGPON1, XGPON2, NGEPON, NGPON2, TWDM-PON, WDMPON – did I leave any out? I’m sure I did. The...

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