November 9, 2020

CableLabs: Accelerating Collaboration, Alignment and Innovation with SCTE•ISBE 

Members of the SCTE•ISBE (Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers) and its international arm International Society Broadband Experts (ISBE) will be voting to combine forces with CableLabs, streamlining the cable industry’s technology-based associations by uniting its two largest engineering organizations into one. If approved, the transaction will ensure that the industry will not only meet the current pace of change – but be in a position to accelerate it. What will this mean for CableLabs members?  To continue the industry’s commitment to 10G, the increased alignment of investments, resources, innovation and execution is critical. Engaging vendor and international relationships create efficiencies

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October 28, 2020

CableLabs Member, Vodafone Germany, Now Has 22 Million Gigabit Connections Available in 13 Federal States

An additional 730,000 connections in the Vodafone cable fiber-optic network now offer gigabit-speed! "Vodafone has thus completed the gigabit upgrade in its cable fiber-optic network in 13 German states and completed the largest gigabit expansion project in Germany. Around 12.6 million cable households now have gigabit Internet access in Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland." Congratulations to Vodafone Germany! Read more about how more customers will have access to high speed internet.

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October 9, 2020

CableLabs Hits Another 10G Milestone

On September 30, CableLabs released the Flexible MAC Architecture (FMA) library of specifications along with the FMA MAC Manager Interface (MMI) and the FMA PacketCable Aggregator Interface (PAI) specs. "As a part of the suite of technologies that support the 10G platform, FMA is a key disaggregated access network architecture that supports DOCSIS 4.0 requirements to achieve downstream speeds up to 10 Gbps and upstream speeds up to 6 Gbps."   Read more about this 10G milestone in our blog!

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September 30, 2020

USA Today Explores Mediacom’s 10G Smart Home

USA Today explores Mediacom's 10G Smart Home, in collaboration with CableLabs and NCTA: The Internet and Television Association. "It was all so incredible,", Ames Chamber of Commerce CEO Dan Culhane said, "The tools and equipment they illustrated ... it opens up the door so much to the things you could do in your home. The sky really is the limit for this." Explore how 10G technology is changing the future of how we all live, learn, work and play. Read USA Today's full story.

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September 23, 2020

CableLabs at SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo® 2020: Hear What’s New in Cable Network Technologies

SCTE•ISBE Cable Tec Expo® 2020, the first all-digital presentation of the largest cable telecommunications and technology event in the Americas, is scheduled for October 12-15. This year’s theme: Imagine the Possibilities. CableLabs will be there in full force with multiple speakers and moderators who will be covering a broad range of topics from AI to fixed-mobile convergence to the future of 10G. Join this event to hear about how we’re advancing cable network technologies to meet the needs of current and future generations.

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September 9, 2020

CableLabs Honored with Technology Emmy Award

In case you missed it in our blog back in February, CableLabs received an Emmy award for enabling the development and deployment of the Hybrid Fiber Coax (HFC) Network Architecture, "the suite of technologies responsible for the razor-sharp broadband video, high-speed Internet you enjoy today." Read more about what CableLabs is doing with new technologies. Make sure to tune in on October 21, live at 4PM EDT to watch the Emmy award show.

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September 4, 2020

Key DOCSIS® 4.0 Takeaways From Cable Next-Gen Technologies and Strategies

About six months ago, CableLabs released DOCSIS® 4.0 specification. Skip to this year's Cable Next-Gen Technologies and Strategies event, Doug Jones, Principal Architect at CableLabs, said that he expects CableLabs to "begin some initial interoperability work – a precursor to certification testing – in 2021." Read more about the DOCSIS 4.0 roadmap and where 10G comes into play in LightReading's blog.

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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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