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Blog Posts
- Collaborate, Share and Learn at Summer Conference 2019
- The P2P Coherent Optics Specification of the Future, Available Today
- 1+1=100: CableLabs’ University Research Relationships and Their Role Within the Innovation Ecosystem
- Preparations for Full Duplex DOCSIS® 3.1 Technology are Marching Along
- The Personal and Social Implications of the End User License Agreement
- CableLabs® Micronets Security Reference Code Is Now Open Source
- What’s Next for Cable? To Find Out, Join us at Cable Next-Gen this March
- Why Consensual AI Improves Problem Solving
- Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM): Are You InGeNeOS?
- Mobility Lab Webinar Recap: Over-the-Top (OTT) Aggregation
- CableLabs Europe Conference 2019: Together We are Ready for Anything
- Comparing 4G and 5G Authentication: What You Need to Know and Why
- DOCSIS® Network vs. Fiber BackHaul for Outdoor Small Cells: How Larger Footprint of DOCSIS Networks Lowers TCO in the Outdoor Use Case
- Mobility Lab Webinar #2: Over-The-Top (OTT) Aggregation
- Proactive Network Maintenance: Where Is Common Data Collection Going Next?
- AI & Machine Learning: Register for Our Next Innovation Boot Camp in April 2019
- The Profile Management Application: Optimizing DOCSIS® 3.1 Networks
- Security for Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers
- 10G Platform: Coming to Homes, Offices and Cities Near You
- 2019 Tech Innovation Predictions
- Something Old, Something New: CableLabs Holds First P2P Coherent Optics Interop
- CableLabs Announces Major Update to the Open Source LoRa Server
- Say “Hoi” to VodafoneZiggo, Our Newest CableLabs Member
- TCO of DOCSIS® Network XHaul vs. Fiber BackHaul: How DOCSIS Networks Triumph in the Indoor Use Case
- CableLabs Open Source LPWAN Server Brings Diverse LPWAN Technologies Together
- Innovation From All Corners: The Role of Vendors in the Innovation Ecosystem
- Wireless RF Spectrum Scarcity, What About Light Wave?
- A Different Future for Artificial Intelligence
- Building Community with CableLabs Gives
- Converged Carriers, Femtocells and Spectral Efficiency: Rethinking the Traditional Outdoor Small Cell Deployment
- Micronets: Enterprise-Level Security Is No Longer Just For Enterprises
- Operators Now Have the (ad)Vantage™
- Mobility Lab Webinar Recap and Q&A: CBRS Neutral Host Network using Multi-Operator Core Network
- The Gigabit Internet Dream Continues to Expand
- IPoC: A New Core Networking Protocol for 5G Networks
- CableLabs’ Subsidiary Kyrio and SCTE•ISBE Combine Expertise
- Cable and Education: Welcome to the Classroom of the Future
- Patents and Licensing: Why It Matters
- CableLabs Presents: Mobility Lab Webinar Series
- CableLabs Welcomes Two New Members: Liberty Latin America and Packerland Broadband
- Crack the NFV Code for Free with our New NFV 101 Training Course
- #EEDay2018
- Legislators at the Labs
- CableLabs at SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo® 2018: Learn How We’re Inventing the Future
- Technology in Your Everyday Life: Why You Should Pay Attention to Innovation
- Living the Gigabit Internet Dream
- UpRamp’s Innovation Economy: The Teltoo™ Story
- Better Home Networks: How EasyMesh™ Delivers Intelligent Wi-Fi
- How UpRamp is on a Mission to Fix the Innovation Economy for the Connectivity Industry
- Successful OnGo Interoperability Test Event Held at CableLabs
- The Need for IoT Standards
- Webinar Recap: Energy Efficiency Through Industry Action
- Do We Have Privacy Wrong?
- Another Year – Another Impressive Result for Voluntary Energy Initiatives
- A Super-Fast, Super-Connected Wireless Future Requires a Balanced Spectrum Policy
- 10 Fun Facts about our Film The Near Future. Ready for Anything.
- CableLabs Unveils its Vision of the Future of Education
- Introducing #Fiterator3: CX, Edge Compute, and Cybersecurity
- Innovation Showcase 2018: Summer Conference
- CableLabs Innovation Series: Transforming Ideas into Solutions
- But it’s Just a Light Bulb, Does it Need All This Security?
- Introducing the DOCSIS Synchronization Techniques Specification
- Wi-Fi Proactive Network Maintenance: Making Wi-Fi Frictionless, Invisible, and Reliable
- CableLabs Announces SNAPS-Kubernetes
- Meet UpRamp Executive Director and CableLabs VP of Ventures and Outreach Scott Brown
- Come Along for the Ride: Innovation Boot Camp
- 5 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About CableLabs
- Summer Conference 2018: Register For Our Game-Changing Event
- First Light for CableLabs® Point-to-Point Coherent Optics Specifications
- Network Slicing: Building Next-Generation Wireless Networks
- Should Artificial Intelligence Practice Law?
- Power your Product Roadmap with Perceptive Technologies
- 3 Tips on How to Make CableLabs Certification/Qualification Testing as Painless as Possible
- EasyMesh™ Brings Super Connectivity to Home Networks
- Why Should I Care? The Value of CableLabs Certification/Qualification for Manufacturers
- The Golden Gigabit Internet Age
- A Journey Back in Time: CableLabs 30th Anniversary Documentary
- CableLabs is Celebrating the Big Three-O
- A Letter to our Members on our 30th Anniversary
- What’s in a Name? The Value of CableLabs Certification/Qualification for Cable Operators
- DOCSIS Technologies for Mobile Backhaul: Download our White Paper
- Meet CableLabs Innovation Project Manager Gabby Gordon
- What is Full Duplex Coherent Optics?
- CableLabs Employees Recognized for Outstanding Leadership
- Deployment of OpenStack using CableLabs’ SNAPS on Aparna µCloud 4015
- Meet Kyrio President and General Manager Mitch Ashley
- Inform[ED] Video: Cable Modem Validation Application
- Blockchain Enters the Cable Industry
- INFORM[ED] Europe 2018: Be a Part of Shaping the Future
- Cable Operators Harmonize Around HDR10 for High Dynamic Range Video
- Immersive Media: Emerging Technology Timeline
- Validating Cable Modems for DOCSIS® 3.1 PNM Deployment
- How Will the Law Treat Injuries Caused by Autonomous Vehicles?
- CableLabs Hosts “Cyber Risks in an IoT World”
- Catalysts and Building Blocks: Emerging Technology Timeline
- Connect[ED] Forum 2018 is Tomorrow
- The Rise of Autonomous Bots and Vehicles
- Meet CableLabs Cybersecurity Expert Michael Glenn
- Set-Top Box Energy Efficiency Voluntary Agreement: Extended, Expanded, and Exceeding Expectations
- Inform[ED] Video: Full Duplex Coherent Optics over Fiber Networks
- CableLabs Hosting a Free Full Duplex DOCSIS® Technology Seminar
- Doubling up on Fiber Capacity: A Winning Strategy for Full Duplex Coherent Optics
- Emerging Technologies: New and Compelling Use Cases
- vRAN Over DOCSIS: CableLabs Making it a Reality
- Webinar Recap: Enabling Cable Networks for Mobile Backhaul
- Pinpointing Signal Leakage and Noise Ingress Demo
- Enabling the Cable Networks for Mobile Backhaul
- Container Workloads: Evolution of SNAPS for Cloud-Native Development
- CableLabs Remote MACPHY Project Launches
- A Step Towards Better Wi-Fi
- Full Duplex DOCSIS® Technology Gets MAC Layer Support
- Meet CableLabs Tech Policy Whisperer Rob Alderfer
- Kyrio NFV Interop Lab: Powered by SNAPS
- CableLabs Asia Summit – Impact with a Difference
- CES 2018: Cable’s Impact
- NFV License Management: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle
- 2018 Tech Innovation Predictions
- Getting Rid of a Big Communications Tax on OFDM Transmissions
- Sharing Bandwidth: Cyclic Prefix Elimination
- Meet CableLabs Signal Expert Tom Williams
- CableLabs Announces SNAPS-Boot and SNAPS-OpenStack Installers
- Webinar Recap: Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM) for DOCSIS® 3.1
- The Near Future of AI Media
- We Need a Spectrum Festivus for the Rest of Us
- CableLabs Gives: Learn about our Philanthropic Program
- Meet Mobile Innovator Dr. Jennifer Andreoli-Fang
- A Little LTE for You & Me: Build Your Own LTE Network on a Budget
- CableLabs Introduces New Telecom Infra Project (TIP) Community Lab
- PNM Series: The Business Case for a Common Collection Framework
- Powering the Future of Mobile Backhaul
- Diversity and Excellence – Investing in the Future with Colorado State University
- CableLabs Publishes Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 Specification
- W3C Recommendation: Plugin-Free Playback of Premium Content
- Cable’s Role in Cybersecurity
- Don Clarke Wins Layer123 Network Transformation Award
- CableLabs Completes Full Duplex DOCSIS Specification
- NFV for Cable Matures with SNAPS
- Remote PHY is a Reality
- Dr. Bernardo Huberman Joins the CableLabs Team
- Meet CableLabs’ First Fellow Dr. Alberto Campos
- Cable’s Role in the Future of Connected Healthcare
- Hosting ETSI NFV in Mile High City
- Meet CableLabs Principal Architect and Futurist Dr. Arianne Hinds
- 5 Ways to Raise Innovation Leadership
- Savin’ Some Rosenfelds
- Towards the Holodeck Experience: Seeking Life-Like Interaction with Virtual Reality
- Behind the Tech: Connected Healthcare and The Near Future. A Better Place
- 5G For All: The Need for Standardized 5G Technologies in the Unlicensed Bands
- Introduction to Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM): The Importance of Broadband
- IoT Security – Insight on Trends, Challenges and the Road Ahead
- 12 Things We Learned at Summer Conference 2017
- 10 Fun Facts about The Near Future. A Better Place.
- CableLabs Unveils its Vision of the Future of Healthcare
- CableLabs Extends its Global Reach with the Addition of Four New Member Companies
- CableLabs Announces an Open Source LoRaWAN Network Solution
- CableLabs in Hong Kong: Insights from APOStech 2017
- Innovation – How to Effectively Manage, Scale, and Accelerate your Efforts
- CableLabs is Excited to Participate in APOStech 2017 in Hong Kong
- ETSI Security Week: Securing Networks Requires a Global Perspective
- 2 Resolutions for World Wi-Fi Day 2017
- CableLabs Loves Pedal Power: Our Bike to Work Day Story
- Arianne Hinds Honored as the 2017 WICT Rocky Mountain Woman In Technology
- 5 Things I Learned at OpenStack Summit Boston 2017
- Innovation Boot Camp May 2017: Is This Really a Boot Camp or an Innovation Cruise Ship?
- NCTA & CableLabs Hosted The Near Future Conference & Delighted the Crowd
- CableLabs Goes Down Under
- Medical Grade Connectivity: How IoT Drives Digital Transformation in Healthcare
- The Benefits and Challenges of a Connected World
- NDA Vendor Forum Takeaways: Working with Kyrio
- Momentum Builds for 3.5 GHz Mobility in 2018
- Innovation Starts Here and Now
- SNAPS-OO is an Open Sourced Collaborative Development Resource
- How The Dark Web Affects Security Readiness in the Cable Industry
- Cable Connects with Healthcare
- Network Operator Perspectives on NFV priorities for 5G
- Cybersecurity Improving the Customer Experience
- Future Proofing Cable’s Optical Access Network: “A Coherent Story”
- Security Infrastructure Enhances Student Privacy, Data Protection, and Can Make Life Easier
- Canada Launches STB Energy Efficiency Voluntary Agreement
- Network and Service Management – The Missing Piece for NFV
- Insights from the 50th Consumer Electronics Show #CES2017
- 2017 Innovation Predictions
- Re-Imagining the Classroom Experience
- Carrier Wi-Fi is now Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Vantage™
- 3.5 GHz: The Democratization of LTE
- Improving Infrastructure Security Through NFV and SDN
- Device Security in the Internet of Things
- Multiple Access Point Architectures and Wi-Fi Whole Home Coverage
- Debunking the Myths of Shared Networks: The Point-to-Multipoint Effect
- Snapping Together a Carrier Grade Cloud
- CableLabs Joins the CBRS Alliance
- A Milestone in Wi-Fi / LTE-U Coexistence
- Liberty Global and CableLabs Join MulteFire Alliance
- Full Duplex DOCSIS® 3.1 Specification Effort Launches
- Keeping Pace with Nielsen’s Law
- A Sneak Peek of SCTE Cable-Tec Expo
- Human and Computer Cognition
- Enabling the Transformation of Education
- Evolving Innovation Culture
- Getting Better Every Year!
- It’s Only Wireless for THIS long
- 2016 Innovation Showcase at CableLabs Summer Conference
- Meet the 4 Startups Selected for the First UpRamp™ Fiterator™ Program
- A Look into the Near Future
- A Re-Cap of FTTH Connect 2016
- CableLabs Joins the UK 5G Innovation Centre
- Adversarial Engineering
- Industry Set-Top Box Voluntary Agreement Initiative Wins Environmental Leader Top Project of the Year Award
- Implementing CableLabs Global Strategy
- Cable Makes Its Mark at FTTH Connect
- Inform[ED]™ Wireless Tackles Spectrum Policy with FCC Commissioners
- The Future of Network Security
- OPNFV’s Inaugural Plugfest Hosted by CableLabs
- Solutions for Whole Home Wi-Fi Coverage
- Co-Innovation: Cablelabs’ Newest Acceleration Program
- Furthering CableLabs’ Innovation Mission through University Research
- Accelerating Execution in the Startup World
- Hello Blockchain . . . Goodbye Lawyers?
- A Coder’s Announcement of the CableLabs C3 Platform for Collaborative Software Development
- NDA Vendor Forum is April 6
- Non-traditional Stakeholders in 5G Network Developments
- The Analog Monkey on Our Backs: Wrong-Thinking about Data over Cable
- Please Join CableLabs at Inform[ED]™ Wireless
- Li-Fi – A Bright Future for Home Networks
- Blockchains and the Cable Industry
- ETSI NFV Continues to Build Momentum
- My Retrospective of Mobile World Congress
- Impressions From Mobile World Congress
- First Impressions of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
- Are Wi-Fi Repeaters and Extenders Beneficial?
- Giving Up Bad Security Habits
- Full Duplex DOCSIS® 3.1 Technology: Raising the Ante with Symmetric Gigabit Service
- Coming Up for Air on LTE-U Coexistence: An Update
- New Open Source Initiative at CableLabs
- UpRamp™ – Connecting Networks, Creating Magic with a New Kind of Accelerator
- Making Network Virtualization and Carrier Ethernet Easier
- Re-Inventing the Internet
- NetworkFX is now Kyrio
- The Cost of Codecs: Royalty-Bearing Video Compression Standards and the Road that Lies Ahead
- Gadgets Galore in our Comfortable Living Room Lab
- CableLabs 2.0 Aligns with The Future
- Harmonizing NFV Information Modeling Through Industry Collaboration
- CableLabs 2.0
- A Great DOCSIS 3.1 Achievement: Certification!
- DOCSIS 3.1 Technology: Spec to Product in One Year
- UPnP, OIC, and Cable
- 5G — The Beginning of an Exhilarating Journey
- Fair LTE-U Coexistence Far From Proven In CableLabs / Qualcomm Testing
- Wi-Fi vs. Duty Cycled LTE-U: In-Home Testing Reveals Coexistence Challenges
- Active Story: How Virtual Reality is Changing Narratives
- An Invitation to Hack in Dallas
- DOCSIS® 3.1 Products Are Getting Real!
- CableLabs Demonstrations at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo ’15
- Who Will Win The Race For Virtual Reality Content?
- Can LTE-U Forum Specification Provide Fair Coexistence?
- Downloadable Security and the Future of CableCARDs
- The Importance of Vendors and the Rise of the TekStadium™ Vendor Showcase
- Avoiding a Turn of the Screw in the Internet of Things (IoT)
- Is Virtual Reality the Next Big Thing?
- RDK Training Summit 2015: A Full House at CableLabs
- DOCSIS 3.1® Update:
Get Your Engines Running….The Engines ARE Running! - Good-Bye IPv4, Hello IPv6
- Passive Optical Networking – for the Next Generation
- Capitalizing on Data: An Engine to Business Services Growth
- SCOTUS Sidesteps an Interface with APIs
- CableLabs® New Remote PHY Specifications expand DOCSIS® Network deployment options
- A Hands-On Innovation Experience in Silicon Valley
- A New Voluntary Agreement for Energy Efficiency: Home Internet Equipment
- Can a Wi-Fi radio detect Duty Cycled LTE?
- Technology Implications of 2Gbps Symmetric Services
- Content Creation Demystified: Open Source to the Rescue
- OPNFV Builds Momentum With First Code Release
- Web Media Playback: Solved with dash.js
- Adaptive Bitrate and MPEG-DASH
- Standards-Based, Premium Content for the Modern Web
- Encrypted Media Extensions Provide a Common Ground
- Innovation Starts Here and Now
- Next Generation Video: Beyond 4K
- Join us at the CableLabs NDA Vendor Forum
- Interactive TV Ads – Is There a Demand?
- CableLabs’ Open Source Contributions
- NFV and SDN: Paving the Way to a Software-Based Networking Future
- Join CableLabs as a part of Tek Stadium™
- Rethinking Data Integration: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
- Voice Service Over Wireless Networks
- Insights From Creating A Collaborative Workplace
- Healthcare and the Role of Cable
- CES 2015: Connecting Things
- Are all Wi-Fi Channels Created Equal?
- As Data Networks Become Virtual, Enterprise Integration Must Become a Reality
- ETSI NFV Industry Specification Group Publishes Second Release of Documents
- The Evolution of DOCSIS Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM)
- Wi-Fi vs. Duty Cycled LTE: A Balancing Act
- OpenStack: Pushing the Cloud
- Where is that Set-top Box?
- Wi-Fi vs EU LBT: Houston, we have a problem
- CableLabs Builds Its Presence in Silicon Valley
- Optimizing & Monetizing Wi-Fi Networks
- Cable in the Internet of Things
- CableLabs Founding Member of Open Platform for Network Function Virtualization
- Community Wi-Fi – A Primer
- CableLabs Technology Adopted by China’s Cable Operators (C-DOCSIS)
- Progress in the First Year of the STB Voluntary Agreement
- Learning to Innovate – The Innovation Bootcamp
- In-home Wi-Fi Networks: Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond
- The Future of Home Networking: HIPnet, HOPnet, and RAP
- How CableLabs Can Meet All Your Head End Needs
- NCTA Clears Up Set-Top Box Energy Reports
- Why It’s Time to Pay Attention to Facial Recognition
- How DOCSIS 3.1 Reduces Latency with Active Queue Management
- Video Coding Platforms: Then, Now, and On the Horizon
- What We Can Learn From Lean Startup Business Models
- Will Wi-Fi Have to Share the Waves?
- Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM): Smarter Technology for Smarter Maintenance
- Breaking Free From “Legacy Limitations”
- Approaches to Increasing Wireless Spectrum
- OnePON™: Addressing the Alphabet Soup of PON
- A Look at CableLabs, from CEO Phil McKinney
- Where to Find CableLabs’ White Papers and Publications
- DOCSIS 3.1: Where We Are Today
- Carrier-Grade Wi-Fi Keeps Pace With Wi-Fi Network Growth: How CableLabs is Contributing
- The Need for Wireless Spectrum: Infographic
- DLNA CVP-2: Premium Content to Any Device in Any Room
- Can Your Cellphone Interfere With Your TV?
- 4K vs. UHDTV: Clearing up the Confusion
- FCC Votes to Expand Wireless Spectrum: A Win for Wi-Fi
- A Cybersecurity Framework for the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure: How CableLabs is Helping
- The Future of Home Networking: Putting the ‘HIP’ in HIPnet™
- SDN & NFV: Moving the Network into the Cloud
- The Search for a Royalty-Free Video Codec
- 4K TVs: Grasping for Consumers
- DOCSIS® Technology: National Broadband Down Under
- CES 2014: Two Trends Cable Should Watch
- Global Wi-Fi Roaming Accelerates
- Expanded Set-top Box Voluntary Agreement a Win for Service Providers and Consumers
- Clearing the Air: FCC Faces Wi-Fi Spectrum Challenges
- CableLabs® – A Global Strategy for Innovation