August 17, 2015

Cable is Looking at Virtual Reality

Transcending the boundaries of traditional television, virtual reality may be The Next Big Thing.  CableLabs CEO Phil McKinney discussed his observations with Variety Magazine.    

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August 5, 2015

Veniam Wows at Innovation Showcase

Eight companies were spotlighted at the CableLabs Innovation Showcase at the Summer Conference on August 3. Veniam's product was voted by the audience as the most interesting from the perspective of a cable operator.  Read more about their offering in Multichannel News.

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July 28, 2015

IHS Survey Pinpoints What’s Hot in Cable Technology

“Massive” deployments of DOCSIS and a shift to remote and distributed network architectures are some of the top trends among cable operators, IHS found in a survey of 12 service providers across the globe that represent the bulk of industry revenues and capex. Multichannel News provides the full article.

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July 20, 2015

NFV Market will hit $11.6B in 2019

Mobile operators are not the only ones taking advantage of network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN). CableLabs has been working on SDN and NFV since 2012 according to Phil McKinney, President and CEO of CableLabs. FierceWirelessTech provides a full article referencing a study estimating that the NFV market will hit $11.6B in 2019.

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July 8, 2015

CableLabs Brings New Twist to DOCSIS Networks

Representing the next step in the evolution of DOCSIS-powered cable broadband networks, CableLabs recently released a new family of specs that cover a range of “distributed” architectures for the Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP), a high-density system that combines the functions of the cable modem termination system and the edge QAM and will play a key role in the industry’s all-IP transition. Read more in MultiChannel News. Read more details in Karthik Sundaresan's blogpost.  

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July 2, 2015

The cable box might solve the Internet of Things’ biggest problem

Engadget's Roberto Baldwin wrote about how the set-top box might serve as a protocol agnostic gateway to the otherwise myriad of IoT hubs. CableLabs' staff member Clarke Stevens' blogpost was highlighted in this article.  

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June 5, 2015

CableLabs Partners With Jones/NCTI to Offer DOCSIS 3.1 Training

CableLabs and Jones/NCTI have struck a partnership to provide training and course content for DOCSIS 3.1.  More details are available in this MultiChannel News article.

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May 29, 2015

Signal Leakage Detection Using Synthetic Phased Arrays

Signal leakage detection is an important task that falls on cable operators due to FCC regulations as well as a practical need to prevent signal loss... Tom Williams explains more details in an article in Broadband Library (Summer, 2015 edition).

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May 18, 2015

SDN & NFV Discussed at NFV World Congress

CableLabs' Chris Donley was video-interviewed by TelecomTV at NFV World Congress about CableLabs' role in SDN & NFV -- software defined networking and network function virtualization.   View the full interview here.

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