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News & Views Most Popular CableLabs Seeks to Supercharge WiFi By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/21/2019 New open source project from CableLabs focuses on 'Dual Channel WiFi' technology that can set up dedicated channels for specific apps and traffic types such as streaming video and online gaming. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Liberty Global Grapples With Revenue Slump By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 5/13/2019 Even as it carries out its phased retreat from the European continent, Liberty Global is trying to stem video sub losses and spur fresh revenue growth with a slate of new product and service offerings. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Subdued Cable Spending Hits Arris By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/10/2019 Arris is off to a sluggish start, but hopeful that business will pick up as operators bulk up on DOCSIS 3.1 network capacity and start to snap up customer premises equipment. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Light Reading Hall of Fame 2019 By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 5/6/2019 We've added four names to the Hall of Fame this year. Find out who they are... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Casa Systems Sees Bottom Fall Out in Q1 By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 5/2/2019 Cable and wireless network access vendor reports revenues sank by more than half in Q1 as broadband product and service contracts fell across the board. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Most Innovative Cable/Video Product or Service By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 4/22/2019 Our shortlist for this Leading Lights category features eight solid contenders. Post a Comment \| Read (0) CommScope Wraps $7.4B Deal for Arris By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 4/4/2019 Strategic aim of the merger centers on prep for the 5G transition, network convergence and complementary wireless tech spanning both licensed and unlicensed spectrum. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: Duh! Imagine this in a John Oliver rant. Advertisement CableLabs's Virtualization Efforts Enter New Realities By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 4/4/2019 Virtualization group retooling to support industry's new Flexible MAC Architecture amid recent departure of two execs focused on NFV and SDN, sources say. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: e2mbcorp Why is it called FMA, but then there's a statement that the focus in going... Memory Pricing Improvements Aid Arris-CommScope Deal By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 3/28/2019 Softening pricing on key set-top box components could goose device margins and put a bit more financial luster on the proposed merger, analyst says. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Cable Access Network Capex in for a Lumpy Ride By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 3/21/2019 Spending expected to be sporadic as operators weigh when and how to migrate to distributed access architectures. Post a Comment \| Read (0) CableLabs CTO Ralph Brown Sets His Exit By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 3/1/2019 In another CableLabs-related personnel move, Ike Elliott has succeeded Mitch Ashley as president of organization's for-profit Kyrio subsidiary. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Virtualization Can Mine New Revenues From Gateways & Modems, Startup Says By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 2/20/2019 Israel-based Inango claims its cloud/client 'Virtual Services' platform can enable service providers to layer on and sell additional services via memory-starved, in-home devices. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Can Cable Beat 5G? By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 2/11/2019 Cable leaders will make the case for their new 10G initiative at Light Reading's Cable Next-Gen Technologies & Strategies event in Denver next month. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: Clifton K Morris I have to respectfully disagree. 5G networks (according to the ITU specification;... Charter Might Paint Its Home Gateways & Devices 'Prpl' By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 2/7/2019 MSO said to be giving serious consideration to open source software stack amid discussions on how to establish a degree of coexistence between Prpl and RDK-B. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Cable Next-Gen Is Calling By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 2/4/2019 Could our Cable Next-Gen Tech event make your cable dreams come true? Or are we just being delusional? In his head, LR cable guy Alan Breznick is there already... Post a Comment \| Read (0) CommScope-Arris Deal Races Ahead By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 2/1/2019 Eyeing a closing by mid-year 2019, Arris shareholders have resoundingly approved the proposed $7.4 billion acquisition by CommScope. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Casa's Q4 Sales Come in Light Amid MSO Spending Delays By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 1/18/2019 Casa stock gets walloped as Q4 results come in well below estimates. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner Simon Leopold put out a follow-up on this today, mentioning that the issues... CableLabs Sues Buckeye Over Delinquent Dues By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/12/2018 MSO notified CableLabs of intention to terminate its membership in January 2018, but CableLabs cites that it requires at least three years notice. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner I still haven't heard from Buckeye on their reason for putting in notice, though... US, China Agree to Delay Tariffs Hike By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/3/2018 A higher, 25% tariff slated to take effect in 2019 is postponed for 90 days as the sides try to iron out a long-term trade arrangement. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Terabyte Households Surge as Video Eats the Internet By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/27/2018 Broadband homes that consume 1 Terabyte-plus of data per month more than doubled, Cisco data shows. Will ISPs raise their data ceilings? Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: nelly.frd Cisco is forecasting that 4K/Ultra HD video will account for about 22% of global... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards mdrejhon, 5/22/2019 5:15:22 PM Charter Nears Gigabit Finish Line Re: Re: Good News I am in Canada too and I use a 1TB consumer dropbox account to sync my entire computer (My Documents, Photos, Videos, etc) while also being able to remotely access it on other devices. It conveniently doubles... Duh!, 4/5/2019 4:22:32 PM CommScope Wraps $7.4B Deal for Arris Re: Re: History lesson Imagine this in a John Oliver rant. Jeff Baumgartner, 4/5/2019 11:54:58 AM CommScope Wraps $7.4B Deal for Arris Re: Re: History lesson It's taken a long time, but this thing has come full circle. And that Continental reference goes waaaaay back. JB mahjbeen, 4/4/2019 7:48:03 PM The Cable DAA Vendor Race Begins Re: best latex mattress This is the thing that makes the best latex bedding such a joy to rest on. Manufactured mixes will give you a decent sleeping cushion at a to some degree better cost. best latex mattress ... Duh!, 4/4/2019 7:01:25 PM CommScope Wraps $7.4B Deal for Arris Re: History lesson Commscope spun out of Continental Cable, merged with Valtech, got bought out by MA/COM, who sold them to GI. GI split up and spun out Commscope. GI got acquired by Motorola and morphed into Motorola Connected Home. Carl... e2mbcorp, 4/4/2019 8:52:13 AM CableLabs's Virtualization Efforts Enter New Realities Re: The MAC is layer 2 Why is it called FMA, but then there's a statement that the focus in going to be on the transport and control planes. The MAC is layer 2, also referred to as the Data Link Layer, sitting on top of the Physical layer... Clifton K Morris, 2/11/2019 3:21:41 PM Can Cable Beat 5G? Re: Re: All aboard the hype train I have to respectfully disagree. 5G networks (according to the ITU specification; not yet ratified yet) is nothing more than LTE technology, but with an increase in QAM symbol rates. 3GPP TSGs for Release 15 show that... stownplayer, 2/11/2019 8:12:29 AM Can Cable Beat 5G? Re: Re: All aboard the hype train I have to agree with Macemoneta. Cable is riddled with issues and we still can't get symmetrical 1 gig yet. Cable has a long way to go and if history is any indicator it's going to take the cable industry 10 years ... macemoneta, 2/11/2019 7:41:52 AM Can Cable Beat 5G? Re: All aboard the hype train "ramping up from today's 1 Gig downstream speeds to tomorrow's 10-Gig symmetrical service will still be no easy matter." 1 gig speeds are still unaffordable / unavailable / capped at nonsensical levels to the majority... Jeff Baumgartner, 1/18/2019 11:51:49 AM Casa's Q4 Sales Come in Light Amid MSO Spending Delays Re: Impact on Arris? Simon Leopold put out a follow-up on this today, mentioning that the issues Casa's facing would imply potential risk for on of Casa's key competitors, Arris, which is in the process of being acquired by CommScope. Leopold... Jeff Baumgartner, 12/13/2018 9:16:34 AM CableLabs Sues Buckeye Over Delinquent Dues Re: Offensive move and defensive deterrent? I still haven't heard from Buckeye on their reason for putting in notice, though I imagine it's all about cost-cutting and a questioning of what influence they have w/CableLabs initiatives and a belief that they will still... nelly.frd, 11/29/2018 11:45:32 AM Terabyte Households Surge as Video Eats the Internet Re: Re: clipart png 2019 calendar printable calendar Cisco is forecasting that 4K/Ultra HD video will account for about 22% of global IP video traffic by 2022, compared to a mere 3% in 2017. Cisco also predicts that 62% of flat-panel TVs will be 4K-capable by 2020, a CAGR... cypherstream, 11/29/2018 10:05:59 AM Terabyte Households Surge as Video Eats the Internet Re: Re: Maybe not unreasonable? Game consoles will chew through 1TB+ easy these days. For example Microsoft's Xbox game pass is like the Netflix of Xbox one. You pay $10 a month for access to 100+ Games to play but the caviat is whatever games you want,... Duh!, 11/27/2018 1:55:11 PM Terabyte Households Surge as Video Eats the Internet Re: Maybe not unreasonable? Quick back-of-the-envelope calculation. Assuming an equal mix of HD and UHD, we can use 11.3 Mbit/s as the average video data rate. That said, 1 TB of data equates to just short of 200 hours of video, or six and a half hours... stevfortyfive, 11/19/2018 10:54:43 PM Technicolor Eyes Options, Including Sale of Set-Top Biz – Report Re: Does anyone want this skeleton of a company? Finally it seems the end is near. This latest news is the continuation of a long story of failure since the French purchased RCA in the late 1980s. Technicolor executive leadership never had a clue how to make... More Message Boards		Security Now Zscaler Finds Security Issues Galore in IoT Traffic Larry Loeb, Author, 5/24/2019 The use of plain-text HTTP communication, outdated libraries and weak default ... 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