CableLabs president and CEO sizes up tru2way and DCR+, gives a Wideband status report, and discusses the similarities between Docsis and WiMax

Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor

June 16, 2008

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LRTV Interview: CableLabs' Dr. Richard Green

As the R&D house for the North American cable industry, CableLabs is the epicenter of several highbrow efforts, including Docsis 3.0, PacketCable, and, of course, tru2way, which ended up being the big talker last month at The Cable Show in New Orleans. (See Cable Makes Big 'tru2way' Play and MSOs Open Up on Tru2way.)

At the show, we spent a few minutes with CableLabs CEO Richard Green to chat about some of the bigger items on the plate these days, including why the stars seem to be aligning on tru2way now (recent testing issues aside, of course), even though the technology has been in the works for about a decade.

Green also addressed how tru2way differs from DCR+, a competitive platform that's seen waning interest following the recent Sony-cable memorandum of understanding (MOU). (See Sony Supports tru2way and Revealed: The Tru2way MOU.)

Oh, and while we were at it, we also asked him to address some of the purported technical similarities between Docsis and WiMax now that three major MSOs are pumping millions into the "new" Clearwire LLC (Nasdaq: CLWR). (See Why Not WiMax? and Cable Plays Clearwire Card.)

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— Jeff Baumgartner, Site Editor, Cable Digital News

About the Author(s)

Jeff Baumgartner

Senior Editor, Light Reading

Jeff Baumgartner is a Senior Editor for Light Reading and is responsible for the day-to-day news coverage and analysis of the cable and video sectors. Follow him on X and LinkedIn.

Baumgartner also served as Site Editor for Light Reading Cable from 2007-2013. In between his two stints at Light Reading, he led tech coverage for Multichannel News and was a regular contributor to Broadcasting + Cable. Baumgartner was named to the 2018 class of the Cable TV Pioneers.

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