Cable: Still competitive or past its prime?

The clock is ticking for the cable industry. Amid ever-mounting competition from telco, fiber, fixed wireless, 5G and other rival providers, cable operators are facing perhaps the biggest challenge to their existence in the industry's 75-year history.

As a result, cablecos must make some critical decisions about how to move forward. Should they proceed with their legacy hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) networks and advanced versions of tried-and-true DOCSIS technology? Or should they junk DOCSIS altogether and pivot to next-gen PON technology over all-fiber lines? Or should they try to cobble together a combination of these two approaches?

There are no easy answers to these questions, but those involved in the cable industry must discuss the possible paths forward. That's where we come in.

For a record 17th consecutive year, Light Reading's Cable Next-Gen Technologies & Strategies conference will tackle these and other thorny issues. In downtown Denver, Colorado, on March 12 and 13, Cable Next-Gen will dissect, discuss and debate the crucial technical and business opportunities and challenges the cable industry faces today.

Our speaking roster includes tech titans from throughout the cable industry:

So please join us and your friends and colleagues for two content-packed days. We're looking forward to sessions on 10G, DOCSIS 4.0, next-gen PON, broadband subsidies, streaming video, spectrum expansion, network security, artificial intelligence and other key topics.

Sign up here! We'll be looking for you.