January 26, 2021

New Year, New Emmy Award

CableLabs is honored to receive a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for the development of the event signaling and management API standard! We'd like to congratulate other honorees including SCTE•ISBE, Comcast, CommScope and Charter Communications - just to name a few. “The Technology & Engineering Emmy Award was the first Emmy Award issued in 1949 and it laid the groundwork for all the other Emmys to come,” said Adam Sharp, CEO & President, NATAS. “We are extremely happy about honoring these prestigious companies, again in partnership with NAB, where the intersection of innovation, technology and excitement in the future of

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January 19, 2021

CableLabs Wins 2021 BIG Innovation Award

Last week, CableLabs was honored with a Technology BIG Innovation Award presented by Business Intelligence Group. "The BIG Innovation Awards recognize those organizations and people who bring new ideas to life. Whether that idea is big or small, these ideas change the way we experience the world. Unlike other programs, nominations are judged by recognizable leaders, not editors or writers with limited business experience." Read more about BIG Innovation Awards and see the other honorees!    

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January 5, 2021

CableLabs Continues to Hit More Milestones on the Path to 10G

CableLabs 10G journey began back in 2019, "CableLabs and its members have worked together to create and introduce technologies that serve as building blocks for the foundation of a 10G network." In 2020 alone, CableLabs reached numerous milestones on the path to 10G, including: DOCSIS 4.0 Technology Intelligent Wireless Network Steering (IWiNS) FMA Spec Release 25G/50G-EPON Increasing Wi-Fi performance Field-testing the 10G platform for the first time And more! Read more about all of the 10G milestones that were hit in 2020.

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December 3, 2020

Kyrio Partners with Wireless Broadband Alliance

Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) just announced users of the new OpenRoaming™ service "will be granted enterprise-level security, thanks to a partnership with infrastructure security experts, Kyrio." "As part of the new partnership, Kyrio a subsidiary of CableLabs® will join Google and Cisco as an Issuing Intermediate Certificate Authority (ICA), providing innovative agent and registration authority services to the broader WBA family, including networks, operators, hubs and identity providers."   Read more about this new partnership.

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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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