Tag: CableLabs
October 8, 2024
Digging into the Top 5 Takeaways from SCTE TechExpo
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | September’s SCTE TechExpo24 will go down as one of the most memorable in the history of the annual industry gathering. MSOs of all sizes were impacted by news that Broadcom, Comcast, Charter and other signers of a Joint Development Agreement would make silicon that unifies the FDD and FDX [...]
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June 27, 2024
Introducing GigaXtend Orchestrator: The Abracadabra App
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | If the vice president of engineering at a major MSO — make that any MSO, really — stumbled across a dusty lantern of ancient origins, does anyone doubt what his or her first wish would be? If your immediate response isn’t a cavalry of trained technicians, you’re probably not [...]
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June 18, 2024
Will 10G be Enough for Everybody?
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | A hallmark of any technology industry, as well as the advanced-degree-laden engineers and other technologists who invigorate that industry with innovation, is a healthy obsession over what comes next. At any given time, a more-than-trivial percentage of research and development is being devoted to answering questions that are a [...]
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June 15, 2022
Ode to a Very Fast HFC Network
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | The American poet T.S. Eliot famously wrote “I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.” Cable industry veterans may have been thinking something similar, with megabits substituting for spoons, when witnessing the April 27th demonstration of a prototype DOCSIS® 4.0 FDD network at this Spring’s 10G Showcase [...]
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May 13, 2022
Debunking the Fiber is Faster than Coax Myth
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | When it comes to the evolutionary path of the HFC network, all roads lead to fiber, a broadband transmission medium offering almost limitless bandwidth. That’s the reason cable operators routinely — and almost exclusively — pull PON technology out of their toolboxes when it comes to greenfield buildouts. Fiber, [...]
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January 28, 2022
Are Cable Operators Ready for the Metaverse?
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | The metaverse is nothing new to science-fiction fans, legions of whom became familiar with the term after its appearance in 1992’s bestselling Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. For the rest of us, the metaverse is a relatively new phenomenon, thrust into the public spotlight most recently and forcefully [...]
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November 18, 2021
Why the Value of CableLabs’ 10G Challenge Far Exceeds $300K
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | Bravo to CableLabs for incenting a new wave of next-generation applications aimed at improving the way we live, work, learn and play. The organization’s recently launched 10G Challenge will award a total of $300,000 to innovators developing services, applications or technologies that will leverage the increased speed and [...]
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December 11, 2020
Why the Unification of CableLabs and SCTE is a Big Deal
By Dan Whalen, ATX President & CEO | CableLabs and SCTE-ISBE this week made official their recently announced merger plans with the successful conclusion of a vote by SCTE members to make their organization a subsidiary of CableLabs, effective Jan. 1, 2021. I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that neither side [...]
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