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News & Views Most Popular Fiber Will Trump HFC & 5G From Here to Kingdom Come, EFF Says By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/18/2019 Declaring that local US governments are in 'dire need of universal fiber plans,' the Electronic Frontier Foundation props up FTTP as the 'superior choice for the 21st century.' Post a Comment Comcast Blames Software Glitch for Broadband Data Meter Error By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/10/2019 In a small edge case that affected about 2,000 customers, Comcast says it fixed the technical issue and is crediting affected accounts for any erroneous charges and giving those subs an additional $50 credit. Post a Comment Seven Things We Learned at Cable-Tec Expo By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/10/2019 The 10G future is in sight, HFC has gas in the tank, Comcast is getting serious about network virtualization, DOCSIS's pioneers get recognized and more from last week's show in The Big Easy. Post a Comment Advertisement Altice Cooks Up RDK-Powered Broadband Gateways By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/10/2019 Altice Labs has introduced a family of broadband gateways for DOCSIS and FTTP networks that utilizes an open source software platform managed by a joint venture of Comcast, Liberty Global & Charter. Post a Comment Network Convergence Revolution to Drive Speed & Efficiency, CommScope CTO Says By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/8/2019 Distributed architectures and other common, underlying technologies and techniques are also starting to span across both wired and wireless networks, Morgan Kurk says. Post a Comment Can Cable Bridge the 'GAP'? By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/4/2019 Charter and a group of vendors are championing a node standardization initiative called the Generic Access Platform that's showing signs of promise, but the effort needs more buy-in from suppliers and MSOs. Post a Comment Telecom Acronyms Going OTT (TAGO) By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 10/4/2019 LMAO @ SCTE. Post a Comment Advertisement Spectrum Enterprise's Gunnar Peters Looks Ahead By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 10/3/2019 Gunnar Peters from Spectrum Enterprise discusses how the company listens to customers and decides what services to offer next. Post a Comment HFC May Never Die By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/1/2019 The cable industry, in partnership with CableLabs, is exploring how to deliver services at 6GHz and beyond, Cox exec says. Post a Comment DOCSIS 4.0 Ends Cable Network Feud By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/30/2019 DOCSIS 4.0 unifies previously feuding Full Duplex DOCSIS and Extended Spectrum DOCSIS proposals for boosting network bandwidth. Post a Comment When Will Cable Need 10G? By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/30/2019 No one knows exactly for sure, but one top industry network engineer believes cable operators will need access network capacities of 'at least' 10 Gbit/s by 2035. Post a Comment Harmonic's 'CableOS' Adds More Fiber to Its Diet By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/30/2019 Vendor extends capabilities of its access network virtualization platform as some MSOs deploy fiber-to-the-premises in targeted and greenfield scenarios. Post a Comment Cable Access Revenues Plummet 40% in Q2 – Dell'Oro By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/27/2019 Decline driven by excess capacity, particularly in the downstream, amplified by recent indecision about the path forward on the cable access network, analyst says. Post a Comment Dan Whalen, Arris's Former Top Network Exec, Heads to Adtran By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/26/2019 Hiring Whalen as chief product officer is another indicator that Adtran is accelerating its cable industry strategy as MSOs mull their next-gen access network moves. Post a Comment SCTE-ISBE's Mark Dzuban: '10G' Set to Be the Star of Cable-Tec Expo By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/26/2019 CEO of cable's engineering and standards-setting organization says 10G will be 'foundational' to the industry's future and a major focus as Cable-Tec Expo has its Swan Song in The Big Easy. Post a Comment CommScope Plots Progress With Low-Latency, Extended Spectrum DOCSIS By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/24/2019 Vendor to demo its latest next-gen cable network and DOCSIS wares, including a new distributed access architecture aggregator, at next week's Cable-Tec Expo in New Orleans. Post a Comment Comcast Starts to Roll Free Speed Upgrades By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/23/2019 Starting in its West division, Comcast has raised the downstream speeds on tiers that 85% of its customers in the region subscribe to. Post a Comment Cox Also Flexing Its Streaming Muscles By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/18/2019 Cable op has quietly launched the Contour Stream Player, Cox's twist on Comcast's Xfinity Flex video streaming product for broadband-only subs. Post a Comment Charter Taps Stephanie Mitchko as CTO By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/17/2019 Mitchko, a former Cadent exec and engineer who worked on Cablevision's pioneering remote-storage DVR service, succeeds the retired Jay Rolls. Post a Comment FCC: 100-Meg Connections Surged... in 2017 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/29/2019 Commission's latest broadband report, based on data that's almost two years old, found that connections delivering at least 100 Mbit/s downstream jumped to 40.6 million by the end of 2017. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Telenet Taps Vector for DOCSIS 3.1 Upgrade Friday, October 11, 2019 Altice Labs Embraces RDK Broadband Gateways Thursday, October 10, 2019 Casa Systems Goes Multi-Access at Cable-Tec Expo Thursday, October 3, 2019 VeEX Debuts DOCSIS 3.1 Test Module Monday, September 30, 2019 Comporium Taps Harmonic's 'CableOS' Platform to Aid DAA Migration Thursday, September 26, 2019 CommScope Tees Up New Cable Network Tech Tuesday, September 24, 2019 NOS Teams With Tata Elxsi on RDK-B DOCSIS 3.1 Router Monday, September 16, 2019 10G, Low Latency, IoT & Cable's 'GAP' Initiative Highlight Cable-Tec Expo's 'Innovation Theater' Thursday, September 5, 2019 Sercomm Nets CableLabs OK for DOCSIS 3.1 Device Tuesday, September 3, 2019 Atlantic Broadband Expands Gigabit Deployments Wednesday, August 21, 2019 Casa Demos Virtual CCAP, Low-Latency DOCSIS 3.1 Monday, August 5, 2019 Casa Q2 Revenues Drop to $52.1M Wednesday, July 31, 2019 CommScope Debuts Remote PHY Device Monday, July 29, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Cylance Discovers WAV Files Can Hide Malware Larry Loeb, Author, 10/21/2019 BlackBerry Cylance threat researchers Anuj Soni, Jordan Barth and Brian Marks ... 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MobiledgeX's Jason Hoffman: State of the Edge The 5G Connectivity Challenge Network Intelligence & Automation in Mergers & Migrations Why Telcos Need an Elastic Services Platform Why Hardware Still Matters in the SDN Era Why Is Autonomous Operations Key to Your Network Evolution? Ribbon's Kevin Riley Talks New Company Brand, Latest ... The Cumulus Networks Success Story CloudPassage Ensuring Next-Level Container Security EXFO: Next-Level Assurance Solutions & Automation EXFO: Automate or Stagnate RAD Shares Insights on Latest Developments in vCPE & ... 100GbE in Action & More at MEF17 ADLINK Talks About OCP & Next Generation Telecom ... LINX Talks Open Networking & OcNOS Nominum & Security for Small to Midsized Businesses C-V2X Is Getting Ready for Commercialization With ... Ixia Launches World’s First 400GE Testing Solutions Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoCs Integrate the RF Signal Chain Pluribus: SDN & Beyond Cloud, Security, AI & IoT Are Driving the Need for ... 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