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News & Views Most Popular Service Providers Should Adapt to Open Source World By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 10/16/2018 Four operator executives say open source solves more problems than it causes, and that CSPs need to get with the program. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Jack Burton: Cable's 5G Network Opportunity By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 10/15/2018 Broadband Success Partners Principal Jack Burton says 5G represents a great opportunity for cable MSOs to work with 5G network operators and provide not only backhaul, but facilities -- real estate on poles, towers in headends and central offices. Cable's proximity to the customer could provide them a revenue source tied to 5G and edge computing, as well as a long-term hedge against obsolescence. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Why Vodafone Is Betting on Cloud Video By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 10/15/2018 Major European provider will lay out the strategy behind its new Vodafone TV streaming service at Light Reading's Cable Next-Gen Europe event in London next month. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Where's Cable Going With Cloud? By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 10/12/2018 In a special, free SCTE\|ISBE Cable-Tec Expo breakfast roundtable session on Tuesday, October 23, we'll look at where cable stands in its cloud journey. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Charter Nears Gigabit Finish Line By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/11/2018 With latest batch of rollouts, MSO says DOCSIS 3.1 has been deployed to more than 95% of footprint. Post a Comment \| Read (6 comments) Latest Comment: briansoloducha Yes, I hadn't thought of consumer cloud-storage. Are there other use cases... Cable Shifts Up a Gear on Cloud, Virtualization By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/10/2018 CableLabs is developing a cloud, edge and virtualization framework that MSOs can use to provide a consistent message to the vendor community. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Why Cable Keeps Feasting on Fiber By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 10/10/2018 In a new report published in partnership with SCTE/ISBE, Light Reading spells out what cable operators are doing with fiber now and what they plan to do with it in the future. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement 5G: Friend or Foe for European Cable? By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 10/8/2018 That's one of the looming technology and business challenges that Light Reading will tackle on November 6 at our inaugural Cable Next-Gen Europe conference in London. Post a Comment \| Read (0) The Network's Edge Is Being Redefined By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/28/2018 Maintaining visibility into the network is among the challenges faced as processing and compute creeps toward smaller and more numerous facilities and out to the CPE. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Comcast Eyes 'Scale Deployments' of Remote PHY in 2018 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/27/2018 Pivot to remote PHY and distributed access architectures is paving the way to Full Duplex DOCSIS, engineering exec says. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Future State for MSOs: Ready or Not? By Jack S. Burton, Principal, Broadband Success Partners, 9/25/2018 OTT has changed everything and now 5G is on the way. How can cable operators stay ahead? Post a Comment \| Read (0) What's Next for European Cable? By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 9/18/2018 Light Reading will tackle the big technology and business changes buffeting the European cable industry at our inaugural Cable Next-Gen Europe conference in London on Nov. 6. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Cable Industry Advice Led Tibit to Its Tiny OLT By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/24/2018 New 'MicroPlug' expected to tie into cable's move toward virtualization, distributed access architectures. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Casa Systems Shares Slide on Slashed Guidance By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/14/2018 Supplier says some cable operators have put off big capacity purchases as they finalize plans for new distributed access architectures. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner In the aftermath of Tuesday's Q2 results, Raymond James maintained its "Outperform"... NBN Finally Revs Up DOCSIS 3.1 Engine By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 8/8/2018 More than two years later than originally planned, Australia's government-backed wholesale broadband operator says it has started deploying the multi-gigabit DOCSIS tech on its HFC network. Post a Comment \| Read (0) CableLabs Connects With Kubernetes By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/6/2018 CableLabs broadens its work in open source with a stack that eyes product interoperability as cable ops continue to flirt with SDN and NFV access network strategies. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Arris Financials Clipped by Component Shortages By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/2/2018 Arris misses its Q2 numbers and cuts financial guidance for 2018 as a component crisis continues to put stress on its key CPE business. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner Though the CPE results fell short of expectations in Q2, the fact that Arris... Harmonic Still Seeking Scale for Its Virtual CCAP By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 7/31/2018 Showing that the virtual CCAP era is still in the early phases, Harmonic says its new CableOS platform is delivering broadband service to about 400,000 cable modems worldwide. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner In his reax note, Raymond James's Simon Leopold called Harmonic's progress... Coherent Optics Get Close to the Edge By Wayne Hickey, Advisor, Product Marketing, Ciena, 7/17/2018 Why it makes sense for cable operators to distribute coherent packet-optical technology to the cable network edge. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: [email protected] Compared to 4G LTE, 5G is expected to offer 100x faster speeds, 100x more devices,... CableLabs Clears Coherent Optics for Takeoff By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 7/6/2018 New specs from CableLabs aim to help cable operators bulk up fiber capacity as they start to distribute their access networks. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Charter Nears Gigabit Finish Line By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/11/2018 With latest batch of rollouts, MSO says DOCSIS 3.1 has been deployed to more than 95% of footprint. Post a Comment \| Read (6 comments) Latest Comment: briansoloducha Yes, I hadn't thought of consumer cloud-storage. Are there other use cases... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards briansoloducha, 10/16/2018 7:09:47 PM Charter Nears Gigabit Finish Line Re: Re: Good News Yes, I hadn't thought of consumer cloud-storage. Are there other use cases out there? This is probably big enough by itself, but if I'm going to build a business case for this, I need as much ammo as I can get... brooks7, 10/16/2018 6:42:17 PM Charter Nears Gigabit Finish Line Re: Re: Good News As one that recently lived through wildfires, ONLY store home data on clouds. The number of security engineers that Dropbox (for example) deploys is far greater than any home. And when your home burns down or... briansoloducha, 10/16/2018 3:33:03 PM Charter Nears Gigabit Finish Line Re: Re: Good News It was not a smart-ass answer - I genuinely have never heard that people were considering cloud-based storage for home user environments. (And I would not have thought about that given security concerns, but these should... stownplayer, 10/16/2018 2:58:06 PM Charter Nears Gigabit Finish Line Re: Re: Good News It does not really matter my use case. I want better upload. I don't really care if you if it's full duplex but these pissy 10,20,30 meg uploads are about useless. Backing up data to cloud services is a royal pain in the... briansoloducha, 10/16/2018 12:41:14 PM Charter Nears Gigabit Finish Line Re: Re: Good News Hi stownplayer, What is your usecase for Full-Duplex? Are you the 1% that thinks they are good enough at video games to make a living streaming? Or are you the other 1% that creates enough content for Youtube and other... stownplayer, 10/13/2018 8:14:54 AM Charter Nears Gigabit Finish Line Re: Good News I don't really care if they forsee 10 gig in ten years. How about just simple full duplex? Upgrade the network and get us a decent upload. I'd be so happy with 200/200, 300/300 or something like that. RituGupta, 9/18/2018 12:30:25 AM Remote PHY Moves Needle in Europe Re: Re: Add Nokia Now that the market for this item is much clearer now, it is only a smart move by the service providers to be coming forward with what they have to offer. Previously, consumers were still skeptical about the whole scene.... Jeff Baumgartner, 8/15/2018 9:46:28 AM Casa Systems Shares Slide on Slashed Guidance Re: The Morning After In the aftermath of Tuesday's Q2 results, Raymond James maintained its "Outperform" rating on Casa shares on the Q2 miss and lower guidance (while also cutting the target price to $19, from $28), noting that Casa's still... scrow, 8/10/2018 12:27:49 PM Intraway, Casa Systems Team on Virtual CCAP Demo Re: Hasn't Vecima had this Solution for over a year? Perhaps Entra is gaining traction, and CASA sees this as a threat? But couldn't come up with an internal solution in time? Jeff Baumgartner, 8/2/2018 1:05:25 PM Arris Financials Clipped by Component Shortages Re: Could have been worse Though the CPE results fell short of expectations in Q2, the fact that Arris still hit the $1B mark was 'impressive' in its own right, Equity Research's George Notter said in a note issued this morning. He said It's impressive... Jeff Baumgartner, 7/31/2018 9:27:05 AM Harmonic Still Seeking Scale for Its Virtual CCAP Re: Another view In his reax note, Raymond James's Simon Leopold called Harmonic's progress with CableOS (deployments/trials plus the new patent) "encouraging," but allowed that cable's virtualization transformation will "take years, and... [email protected], 7/18/2018 9:50:21 AM Coherent Optics Get Close to the Edge Re: Re: 5g network Compared to 4G LTE, 5G is expected to offer 100x faster speeds, 100x more devices, 10x lower latency, and 1000x higher data volumes. 5G NR will not outright replace 4G, but coexist with it, and likely 3G and even 2G for... evana007, 7/17/2018 8:20:30 PM Coherent Optics Get Close to the Edge Re: 5g network I access the internet through my Netgear router and I use 4G. it gives me a satisfying speed. nowadays the latest technology is 5G. so I am thinking to move to 5G. but I want to know about the additional features it provides.... Alan Breznick, 6/29/2018 10:00:21 AM Remote PHY Moves Needle in Europe Re: Add Nokia Eds Note: I neglected to add Nokia to my list of mjor vendors flaunting their Remote PHY wares at ANGA COM because Nokia is now pitching both Remore PHY and Remote MAC/PHY devices. But, in retrospect, that was an oversight... open4g, 6/27/2018 2:19:41 PM Here Comes DOCSIS 4.0 Re: Fiber-cable could push further Signal modulation schemes used in fiber optic and cable links have often led technology due to the controlled environment that the transport media provides. OFDM, for example, was used in fiber-optic several years... More Message Boards		Security Now Security Needs to Start Speaking the Language of Business Scott Ferguson, Managing Editor, Light Reading, 10/16/2018 At the Gartner Symposium/ITXPO, upcoming security trends for the next year ... 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