August 26, 2020

CableLabs Low Latency Program Team and the Future of Latency

CableLabs Low Latency Program Team, Greg White, Matt Schmitt, Steve Glennon, Barry Ferris, Karthik Sundaresan, Dr. Jennifer Andreoli-Fang and Shahed Mazumder, have been building and testing latency and congestion management solutions for some time, including one that is well-tailored to game streaming. CableLabs has been working with its members and vendor partners to make these technologies a reality through several different projects, "At its core, that is the intent of the 10G initiative: to enable the innovations of the future." Read more on our latest blog about the rise of game streaming and the future of gaming and check out

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August 19, 2020

Chairman of FCC, Ajit Pai, Hosts Forum on OpenRAN 5G

We're excited to be a part of this timely and critical Forum on OpenRAN 5G hosted by Ajit Pai and the FCC on September 14th. Mariam Sorond, CableLabs CRDO, will be a part of an expert group discussing Open Radio Access Networks as part of the future of connectivity across all networks. Read more about FCC's Forum on 5G Open Radio Access Networks.

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August 10, 2020

CableLabs’ Sarah Vergara to Be Panelist Speaker at GIG Talk August 12

This Wednesday, August 12th, CableLabs' Sarah Vergara will be a panelist at GIG Talk, 12:00PM–1:00PM MDT. Join NAMIC-Virginia, in partnership with SCTE•ISBE with a line up of cable experts, including NCTA - The Internet & Television Association, Trapollo and Cox Communications, tackling questions about connectivity and the future! Register today for GIG Talk, Understand Tomorrow's Generation of Connectivity.

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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 10, 2020

The 4Front® Podcast Launches July 28, 2020

4Front is launching a new podcast July 28! Join CableLabs' Jeff Metzger as he talks with the people who are on a mission to build a better, safer and more connected future for all of us. Are you in? Don't miss out, you can now listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. [video width="720" height="720" mp4="https://www-res.cablelabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/01151809/4Front-Teaser-1-Made-by-Headliner-2.mp4"][/video]      

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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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