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News & Views Most Popular Fiber Will Trump HFC & 5G From Here to Kingdom Come, EFF Says By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/18/2019 Declaring that local US governments are in 'dire need of universal fiber plans,' the Electronic Frontier Foundation props up FTTP as the 'superior choice for the 21st century.' Post a Comment Comcast Blames Software Glitch for Broadband Data Meter Error By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/10/2019 In a small edge case that affected about 2,000 customers, Comcast says it fixed the technical issue and is crediting affected accounts for any erroneous charges and giving those subs an additional $50 credit. Post a Comment Seven Things We Learned at Cable-Tec Expo By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/10/2019 The 10G future is in sight, HFC has gas in the tank, Comcast is getting serious about network virtualization, DOCSIS's pioneers get recognized and more from last week's show in The Big Easy. Post a Comment Advertisement Can Cable Bridge the 'GAP'? By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/4/2019 Charter and a group of vendors are championing a node standardization initiative called the Generic Access Platform that's showing signs of promise, but the effort needs more buy-in from suppliers and MSOs. Post a Comment Net Neutrality Is Dead Yet Again By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 10/1/2019 States still have the option of enacting their own net neutrality regulations following today's DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding the FCC rollback of net neutrality rules. Post a Comment DOCSIS 4.0 Ends Cable Network Feud By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/30/2019 DOCSIS 4.0 unifies previously feuding Full Duplex DOCSIS and Extended Spectrum DOCSIS proposals for boosting network bandwidth. Post a Comment When Will Cable Need 10G? By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/30/2019 No one knows exactly for sure, but one top industry network engineer believes cable operators will need access network capacities of 'at least' 10 Gbit/s by 2035. Post a Comment Advertisement Harmonic's 'CableOS' Adds More Fiber to Its Diet By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/30/2019 Vendor extends capabilities of its access network virtualization platform as some MSOs deploy fiber-to-the-premises in targeted and greenfield scenarios. Post a Comment Cable Access Revenues Plummet 40% in Q2 – Dell'Oro By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/27/2019 Decline driven by excess capacity, particularly in the downstream, amplified by recent indecision about the path forward on the cable access network, analyst says. Post a Comment CommScope Plots Progress With Low-Latency, Extended Spectrum DOCSIS By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/24/2019 Vendor to demo its latest next-gen cable network and DOCSIS wares, including a new distributed access architecture aggregator, at next week's Cable-Tec Expo in New Orleans. Post a Comment Comcast Starts to Roll Free Speed Upgrades By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/23/2019 Starting in its West division, Comcast has raised the downstream speeds on tiers that 85% of its customers in the region subscribe to. Post a Comment LR Tackles 5G & the Cloud at Cable-Tec Expo By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 9/23/2019 In an industry first, Light Reading will stage two breakfast forums on hot tech topics at next week's Cable-Tec Expo in New Orleans, the first on cable network virtualization and the second on cable's role in 5G. Post a Comment Comcast Taps 'Trellis' Open Fabric for Distributed Access Architecture By Light Reading, 9/16/2019 The cable giant sees scalability, space and power efficiency as payoffs. Post a Comment Cox Has a Prepaid Broadband Service By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/29/2019 Pay-as-you-go offering, called 'StraightUp Internet,' costs $50 a month, includes a DOCSIS WiFi gateway, and delivers up to 25 Mbit/s downstream. Post a Comment Videotron Pulls Out Comcast's Playbook By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/28/2019 Canadian MSO debuts 'Helix' platform featuring broadband gateways, IP video clients, WiFi extenders and home networking management software originating from Videotron's X1 syndication deal with Comcast. Post a Comment Cable's Access Network Market Descends Into Disruption & Chaos By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/26/2019 As cable operators assess their next moves while DOCSIS 4.0 is developed, traditional top suppliers like Arris, Cisco and Casa are struggling, opening the door to Harmonic and others. Post a Comment CommScope Swaps Leadership of Its CPE Biz By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/15/2019 Former Scientific-Atlanta and Cisco exec Joe Chow to succeed Larry Robinson, a move that will spark more speculation about the future of the set-top and modem business that CommScope acquired from Arris. Post a Comment Huawei Cuts Back on Cable By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/14/2019 Chinese vendor is backing away from the cable network business amid pressures from the US-China trade war and the loss of critical business with cable operators in portions of Europe, industry sources said. Post a Comment Cisco Halts Investment in Full Duplex DOCSIS By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/9/2019 Says it's suspending spending on FDX until market timing, ecosystem development and size of the market opportunity can be quantified. Post a Comment CommScope Eliminates COO Slot as Arris Biz Struggles By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/8/2019 Departure of long-time Arris exec Bruce McClelland comes about four months after acquisition and as the unit grapples with an expected temporary decline in cable operator capital spending. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors NOS Teams With Tata Elxsi on RDK-B DOCSIS 3.1 Router Monday, September 16, 2019 Sercomm Nets CableLabs OK for DOCSIS 3.1 Device Tuesday, September 3, 2019 Casa Q2 Revenues Drop to $52.1M Wednesday, July 31, 2019 Dev Systemtechnik Touts DOCSIS 3.1 Remote PHY Interop Thursday, June 13, 2019 Harmonic Adds Low-Latency Mode to 'CableOS,' Touts Remote PHY Device Interop Tuesday, June 4, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now FBI's Portland Office Spies IoT Education Opportunity Larry Loeb, Author, 12/10/2019 The Federal Bureau of Investigation's office in Portland, Ore., uses 'Tech ... (0) CISA Alerts the Financial Sector About Dridex Larry Loeb, Author, 12/9/2019 One of the most prevalent threats to the financial sector, the Dridex Trojan, was ... 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Viasat: Connecting the Unconnected LotusFlare: Awesome Digital Experiences to Drive Growth Source Photonics CEO: Vertical Integration & Lean Models ... MobiledgeX: Who Benefits From Edge Computing? Why Is 5G Different? VMware Service Assurance: Reducing Operational ... Architect Digital-Ready Infrastructures Using SDN & NFV Accenture 5G Acceleration Services at Mobile World ... PacketFabric: Leading the Way in Highly Scalable Network ... Accenture 5G Acceleration Services at Mobile World ... Semtech: LoRa Technology Enabling Proven, Flexible IoT ... Versa's CEO, Kelly Ahuja: Securing & Software-Defining ... How Lumina Is Redefining SDN Aryaka's Gary Sevounts: Advantages to Consuming SD-WAN ... Calix's Shane Eleniak: How Data Analytics & Software ... MobiledgeX's Jason Hoffman: State of the Edge The 5G Connectivity Challenge Network Intelligence & Automation in Mergers & Migrations Why Telcos Need an Elastic Services Platform Why Hardware Still Matters in the SDN Era Why Is Autonomous Operations Key to Your Network Evolution? Ribbon's Kevin Riley Talks New Company Brand, Latest ... The Cumulus Networks Success Story CloudPassage Ensuring Next-Level Container Security EXFO: Next-Level Assurance Solutions & Automation EXFO: Automate or Stagnate RAD Shares Insights on Latest Developments in vCPE & ... 100GbE in Action & More at MEF17 ADLINK Talks About OCP & Next Generation Telecom ... LINX Talks Open Networking & OcNOS Nominum & Security for Small to Midsized Businesses C-V2X Is Getting Ready for Commercialization With ... Ixia Launches World’s First 400GE Testing Solutions Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoCs Integrate the RF Signal Chain Pluribus: SDN & Beyond Cloud, Security, AI & IoT Are Driving the Need for ... Masergy's NFV Journey Mavenir on RCS Cloud Platform & Multi-ID Keep Connected IoT Devices Under Control With Allot Metaswitch: Defining the Cloud Native Core Accelerating IP/Optical Network Visibility & Control Making 5G NR a Reality With Qualcomm Act on Your Intelligence With Amdocs aia! Making 5G New Radio (NR) a Reality Accelerating C-V2X Toward 5G for Autonomous Driving Dan Sahar of Qwilt on Open Edge Cloud Platform Nominum's Craig Sprosts on DNS & Cybersecurity Trends Versa: A Lot More Than SD-WAN SmartNICs & the Future of Network Virtualization Introducing the Next-Generation ONT (Optical Network ... A10 Networks on Service Providers' Industry Needs Check Point on Cybersecurity Accelerating Telecom Digital Transformation With Nominum DNS VeEX Test & Measurement Solutions Versa Networks' Kumar Mehta on SD-WAN Managed Services The Era of Agile Optics Has Arrived Atrinet's NetACE – Migration to NFV & SDN With ... Vodafone Live NFV Use Cases Powered by Amdocs Sonus in VellOS Mellanox Open Composable Networks Network Security Orchestration Sonus in the Cloud Sonus Strategy Netronome's Server-based Networking Platform Nexius: The Strategy & Science of Data Analytics Overture Networks NFV Solutions ECI's Elastic Network Masergy: Transforming Enterprise IT Arbor Networks on ISP Traffic Visibility ECI's LightSec: Comprehensive Cyber Security Solution ECI’s LightApps: Intelligence for Networks Service Gateway Virtual Edition SDN Management & Orchestration in the WAN Sedona Systems: Multi-Layer Applications Platform NFV – a Catalyst for Business Services Growth Telefónica: In Search of Virtual Simplicity Affirmed Networks Highlights NFV in Mobile Core Close-up on ConfD NetNumber Founder on Managing Signaling Control Tail-f, Cisco & What the Future Holds Sonus Shakes Up SD-WAN Automate, Scale & Create With Juniper's vCPE Solution Metaswitch's New CEO Martin Lund Discusses His Role ActiveVideo's Cloud Virtualization Technology Nominum on Leveraging the Power of DNS to Deliver ... Palo Alto Networks on Expanding in the Carrier/Service ... Infoblox on DNS Threat Index The Netformx Ecosystem Versa Networks on Leveraging VNFs Nuage Networks on Operationalizing SDN Mellanox's New 25/50/100Gb/s Ethernet Products Arista's CloudVision VIEW FULL VIDEO SHOWCASE Prime Reading Leading Lights 2015: The Finalists Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 5/7/2015 Light Reading is proud to announce the finalists for this year's Leading Lights ... (0) 5 TV Tech Trends Heading for CES Mari Silbey , Senior Editor, Cable/Video , 1/2/2014 What can the television set expect to see at the upcoming consumer electronics ... (4 comments) TWC's Mike Angus Unplugged Mari Silbey , Senior Editor, Cable/Video , 11/14/2013 Angus dishes on TV Everywhere, BYOD for pay TV, data caps, out-of-home rights, TV ... (1 Comment) Betting on Smart Homes Mari Silbey , Senior Editor, Cable/Video , 8/27/2013 Cable operators seek gold in home automation and security services but face both ... 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MediaKind CTO: Adding Agility Will Shorten 'Feedback Loop' With Customers

Agile, a model based on iterative changes and small, quick releases, is table stakes for any software company. It's just how things get done these days as the older ...