Jeff Baumgartner, Sue Marek and Mike Dano discuss highlights from the Cable Next-Gen event in Denver, spanning the road ahead for DOCSIS, fiber, wireless, low-latency broadband, and the evolution of video and pay-TV.
DENVER – CABLE NEXT-GEN – Just before a monster snowstorm hit the Mile High City, broadband operators, suppliers and key industry watchers gathered here for Light Reading's 17th annual cable industry event.
Fitting with the evolution of the "cable" industry toward something much broader and its increasingly agnostic approach to the access network, topics and hot buttons here ran the gamut. The future of DOCSIS and the hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) network, the industry's amplified focus on fiber, its foray into mobile, and the future of video and pay-TV were all focus areas this week.
In this video, Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner and Mike Dano talk with Light Reading contributor and cable industry expert Sue Marek about key takeaways from the two-day event. Watch for more coverage of CNG in the days ahead.
Here are a few topics we cover (click the closed captioning button in the player for a lightly edited transcript):
Mike and Sue dig into key themes including operators' interest in DOCSIS 3.1 'flex,' the transition to DOCSIS 4.0, and the rising role of AI and machine learning (00:40)
How and why the industry is starting to adopt a 'fiber-first/DOCSIS second' approach as fiber-to-the-premises options become an important tool for cable ops rather than just a competitive boogeyman (2:40)
How cable is zeroing in on the shared spectrum model and why fixed wireless access competition could be a motivating factor (4:30)
Low latency is a pillar of cable's 10G initiative, but how will operators market it as it is becoming clear that consumer adoption is sluggish when low latency is sold as a premium add-on? (06:40)
Operators' interest in the National Content & Technology Cooperative's (NCTC's) agreements with AT&T and Reach is on the rise (9:30)
A skinny video bundle is in the works for NCTC's membership of nearly 700 independent operators (10:15)
Cable's shut down of legacy QAM video infrastructure is starting among some midsized operators. How will that fuel capacity for broadband and accelerate the industry's all-IP future? (13:30)
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