July 30, 2020

Vodafone Germany’s Cable Network Surpasses 21 Million Households With Access to Gigabit Speeds

This was originally published in German. The largest gigabit network in Germany brings high-speed access to 50 percent of all German households The target by 2022: 25 million households in the Vodafone network Düsseldorf, Germany — July 29, 2020 — The expansion of Vodafone's hybrid fiber cable (HFC) network in Germany is progressing even faster than planned. An additional 1.7 million homes now have access to gigabit speeds. As a result, the Düsseldorf-based technology group has crossed the 20 million Gigabit mark and now offers gigabit speeds for more than 21 million households throughout Germany. It is expected that by

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July 22, 2020

CableLabs’ Mariam Sorond Speaks at Fierce Wireless 5G Blitz Week

Mariam Sorond, Chief Research & Development Officer, represented CableLabs' mobile initiatives as a panelist on the Virtualization in 5G session for Fierce Wireless’ 5G Blitz Week. Mariam discussed that cable operators are getting into network virtualization for wireless networks. CableLabs has members that are full MNOs, including Vodafone, GCI, Shaw, Rogers and Millicom. “We have been active in the mobile and wireless space for a significant amount of time,” said Sorond. “We’re participating in O-RAN, TIP and the 3GPP. We want to expand that.” Read more about what Mariam had to say about wireless networks.  

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July 2, 2020

CableLabs’ Fellow and Distinguished Technologist Make Short List for Outstanding Book

CableLabs' Alberto Campos, Fellow, and Steve Jia, Distinguished Technologist, recently wrote a book Coherent Optics for Access Networks - with chapters authored by multiple others at CableLabs. This book has recently made the shortlist for Outstanding Book and Digital Product Award from Taylor and Francis. This book has been the result of effective collaboration with book chapter contributions from several CableLabs team members including Junwen Zhang, Mu Xu, Jing Wang, Lin Cheng, Haipeng Zhang, Chris Stengrim and Curtis Knittle. There were also chapter contributions from Dr. Domanic Lavery and Dr. M. Sezer Erkilinc from the University College in London. Congratulations

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June 18, 2020

Luther Smith, Director of Wireless Access Technology, Presented 2019 Outstanding Leadership Award

A big congratulations to Luther Smith, Director of CableLabs' Wireless Access Technologies team, for receiving the Outstanding Leadership award for 2019 presented by Wireless Broadband Alliance. This award was endorsed by WBA Board with an honors mention based on the following: Heavy lifting contributions across different WBA projects and initiatives Creating bridges across groups in the WBA and streamlining work Leading by example and motivating broadly the project teams Congratulations Luther!

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June 10, 2020

Belal Hamzeh Discusses Project Adrenaline in Online LightReading Event

You may have heard, CableLabs and Altran have teamed up on new project, Project Adrenaline. This project "aims to provide a centrally managed distributed and heterogeneous computing platform that supports the deployment of workloads across the operator's infrastructure." In a recent Light Reading online event, CableLabs CTO Belal Hamzeh discussed this new project and how cable networks are evolving into a connectivity and compute platform. Read more about LightReading's recap and Project Adrenaline.

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May 27, 2020

CableLabs Will Present at IEEE Denver Section Dine and Learn Event

Come see CableLabs’ own Mario Di Dio & Omkar Dharmadhikari speak at the IEEE Denver Section Dine and Learn event series. The series will now take place online. Don't miss it their presentation on, "Enhancing User experience through Advanced Traffic Management", June 9 @ 6:30 PM - 8:30PM.

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May 21, 2020

CableLabs’ Low Latency Team on International Game Developers Association Panel

In case you missed it, CableLabs' Low Latency team produced a panel with Xfinity/Comcast and Blade at the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) virtual conference. The panel covered the current state of the network & future vision for gaming. Watch the recorded session on Twitch today!  

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May 14, 2020

Dr. Jason Rupe Named May Member of the Month

Big congratulations to Jason Rupe for being named Member of the Month for May 2020 by SCTE Rocky Mountain Chapter! CableLabs is grateful for Jason's efforts and fun puns! Check out Jason's blogs on PNM and reliability.

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May 11, 2020

The Future Is Bright but Secure

With great bandwidth, comes great responsibility... Over the last several years CableLabs has been engaged with standard organizations such as, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF), to draft specifications and guide security baselines for IoT devices. This work has culminated in the release of OCF's international ISO\IEC specification for IoT interoperability. CableLabs' Kyle Haefner, Senior Security Engineer, wrote a great blog about OCF's specification, check it out today!

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