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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) 5G Opportunity Still Outweighs the Threat to Cable Ops By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/13/2019 MSOs must remain wary of 5G-powered in-home broadband services, but the backhaul and fronthaul opportunities will abound for cable operators as 5G networks are deployed. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement 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) Comcast Ups Zelesko to CTO, Stirling to Group Chief Product Officer at Sky By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/8/2019 Recent promotions are among other significant executive moves within Comcast's technology and product organizations. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Comcast Business Beefs Up Managed WiFi Via Deep Blue Buy By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/1/2019 Deep Blue specializes in the planning, engineering and installation of managed WiFi networks for hotels and entertainment venues, and reportedly pulled down $38 million in revenues last year. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: VP,CTO54087 Comcast is a proactive MSO. Wondering how far behind is the rest... Charter Exploring 'Dual SIM' Technology By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 4/30/2019 Charter, which added 176,000 mobile lines in Q1, is testing dual SIM capabilities, but deployments are not expected in 2019. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Comcast, Charter MVNO Deals Are Bad for Everyone – Analyst By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 4/16/2019 The cablecos and Verizon could be better suited with a revised deal centered on collaboration and network convergence – an agreement focused on small cell deployments that can fuel 5G networks. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: jbtombes 1700 strands vs. 2-4. That's classic telco over-engineering. As for chumminess,... Rogers, Videotron Angle for X1 Edge By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 4/2/2019 Like Shaw Communications in the western half of the nation, the two big Canadian cablecos are now rolling out their own syndicated versions of Comcast's cloud-based video platform in their respective regions. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Cable's Performance in Mobile Fails to Impress Wall Street By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 3/28/2019 Investors had hoped that Comcast and Charter might pose a significant threat to the likes of AT&T and Verizon in mobile. Newly reduced expectations from Wall Street indicate those hopes haven't panned out. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner Both Charter & Comcast are still in the startup phase expense-wise with mobile,... Comcast Targets 'Xfinity Flex' at Broadband-Only Subs By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 3/21/2019 In-footprint offering, at $5 per month, provides integrated access to a variety of free and subscription OTT services, offers an upgrade path to pay-TV, and runs on an X1-powered 4K/HDR-capable TV-connected device. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner I've gotten a few questions about how Comcast will price and package its pay-TV... T-Mobile Details Home Internet Service to Challenge 'Cableopoly' By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 3/7/2019 T-Mobile released more details about plans to challenge Comcast and Charter with a fixed wireless Internet service. But the broader message was aimed at regulators reviewing its proposed merger with Sprint. 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) Cox's 5G Ambitions May Have Shifted From mmWave to CBRS By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 3/1/2019 Cox – America's third-largest cable TV company – isn't going to bid on mmWave spectrum, but it does apparently have interest in looking at the 3.5GHz CBRS band for wireless operations. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Margins on Streaming TV Packages 'Nothing to Write Home About' – Charter CFO By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 2/27/2019 But new, slimmer options enable Charter to focus on broadband-only customers that haven't responded to offers for traditional pay-TV service, Charter's Chris Winfrey says. Post a Comment \| Read (0) NCTC Plots Plan to Help Cable Ops Work Together on Broadband By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 2/25/2019 Cable industry co-op is heading up a new project to help its hundreds of tier 2/3 operator members get easier access to peering sites and reduce Internet transport costs, new VP of broadband solutions says. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Amid 5G Buildout, AT&T Offloads More Traffic to WiFi By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 2/20/2019 Despite its efforts to build out new spectrum, densify its network and deploy 5G, AT&T is also working to add capacity to its network via an expanded WiFi offloading deal with Boingo. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Nearly 12% of Global Mobile Data to Ride 5G Networks by 2022 – Cisco Study By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 2/19/2019 5G will also represent about 3.4% of global connections by 2022 as 4G continues to dominate but begins to taper off as 5G activity picks up. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Amazon to Snap Up eero, Claw Into Whole-Home WiFi Market By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 2/11/2019 eero battles with the likes of Google and Netgear at retail, and has made some strides in the service provider sector. 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;... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards VP,CTO54087, 5/14/2019 9:12:52 AM Comcast Business Beefs Up Managed WiFi Via Deep Blue Buy Re: MSO to WiFi, How Deep Does it Get? Comcast is a proactive MSO. Wondering how far behind is the rest of the pack. Hospitality is a strategic choice due to ubiquitous urban presence. It would make sense if this is a 5G off-load... jbtombes, 4/22/2019 5:08:57 PM Comcast, Charter MVNO Deals Are Bad for Everyone – Analyst Re: Over-engineering, chums 1700 strands vs. 2-4. That's classic telco over-engineering. As for chumminess, whenever I see Verizon mentioned, I ask myself, which Verizon? Cable + VZ wireless makes sense. Jeff Baumgartner, 3/28/2019 6:32:12 PM Cable's Performance in Mobile Fails to Impress Wall Street Re: Re: Have to disagree Both Charter & Comcast are still in the startup phase expense-wise with mobile, but the rate at which they add customers will eventually play a role in how quickly they can put true scale into this and produce standalone... Clifton K Morris, 3/28/2019 5:43:12 PM Cable's Performance in Mobile Fails to Impress Wall Street Re: Have to disagree Often, new business development has unique challenges. In this situation, the business of Mobile Services is based on a 2-year upgrade cycle. Many people I know aren't aware that Comcast or Charter even have a Verizon-based... Jeff Baumgartner, 3/21/2019 4:23:47 PM Comcast Targets 'Xfinity Flex' at Broadband-Only Subs Re: Pay-TV upgrades & broadband data plans I've gotten a few questions about how Comcast will price and package its pay-TV upgrade options on Flex. Comcast hasn't elaborated on how it will do this, by my guess is that they'll be similar to the pricing and packaging... 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, 2/6/2019 10:27:02 AM Virgin Media, Arris Test 8-Gig Symmetrical Speeds Re: Promo Vid Virgin Media also posted a promo video about the project. It's heavy on the marketing, but some points therein: -Arris said it delivered on the project in 12 weeks-The trial uses existing street cabinets. -The specialized... epicmelon, 11/30/2018 1:45:03 PM Will Plume's Open Source Plan Pay Off? Re: Re: TR-369/USP and Opensync are competing standards Agreed, though I wouldn't say it's a direct competitor necessarily. OpenSync does a small fraction of what USP/TR-369 can do, particularly when it comes to the things that have already been modeled in the Device:2 data model... donalallen, 11/30/2018 6:36:36 AM Will Plume's Open Source Plan Pay Off? Re: TR-369/USP and Opensync are competing standards It's basically a competing standard to the Broadband Forum's TR-369/USP protocol that can also be used for cloud communication with CPEs and other devices, e.g. IoT. They will both likely co-exist - USP is backed by Arris... macemoneta, 11/29/2018 2:32:50 PM Will Plume's Open Source Plan Pay Off? Re: No need for a cloud The reality is that home automation has no need for Internet cloud-based services. I've personally replaced the firmware in the IoT devices I've purchased with open source Tasmota firmware. This provides me with all the... PaulChau, 11/28/2018 11:35:18 PM Making Smart Cities Smarter Re: This is just a development This is just a development of the internet of things isn't it? I reckon that once the whole broadband network is up, there will be so many opportunities for us to create a system where everything communicates easily with... parkardavid, 11/14/2018 8:07:47 AM FCC Tests Show WiFi Can Operate Safely in 5.9GHz Band Re: WiFi Test I have heard about this option. I also read about this when I found this option in the Router settings and got curious about this. But later found that it is an exciting and helpful feature to go with. The information... Jeff Baumgartner, 11/8/2018 2:19:27 PM Comcast Vetting Video Streaming Box for Broadband-Only Subs Re: clarification about X1 and Smart TVs As a point of clarification, the original story said Comcast was looking at possibly integrating X1 into other platforms, such as smart TVs, but the fact is that X1 is an OS at its core, so it's techincally possible that... 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 ... (0) Strategic Security Equals Faster Digital Transformation Larry Loeb, Author, 5/23/2019 Survey finds that respondents who adopted a more traditional or reactive approach ... (0) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News DT's Fiber Invasion, One Partner at a Time Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 5/24/2019 Deutsche Telekom just signed an infrastructure project with the Gigabit Region ... 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