BROWSING: DOCSIS 3.1

Greetings from Lake Norman and Charlotte, North Carolina.  It’s been an amazing week, and, as the picture shows, we are using videoconferencing more than ever.  Pictured is the first ever Patterson/ Delmege family Zoom conference call we held on Saturday morning.  Five states, seventeen...

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! LinkNYC Wi-Fi debuts New...

Simultaneous, symmetric upstream and downstream transmission requires a new approach to interference management for DOCSIS 3.1 DENVER--As cable companies look to support increasingly bandwidth intensive use cases, including a new wave of uplink-heavy and latency sensitive applications, DOCSIS 3.1 has proved very beneficial in increasing...

Full-duplex is something of a white whale for the wireless industry; Kumu Networks has developed the tech for self-backhauling small cells Full-duplex communications would allow a node to send and receive data at the same time in the same channel. This would essentially double the...

The DOCSIS 3.1 cable service interface specification could be a game changer for the internet and TV industry, providing multigigabit data speeds and interoperability among modem manufacturers and service providers. Many believe the international telecommunications standard is the first step toward bringing data-hungry technologies...

Tony Werner, Comcast president of technology and product group, kicks off SCTE/IBSE Cable-Tec Expo 2016 PHILADELPHIA – “The wind is at our back,” Tony Werner, president of the Comcast technology and product group, told attendees at the 2016 Cable-Tec Expo. Pointing to increasing collaboration, the advent of...

Virtual reality gaming. Real-time digital collaboration "walls" for remote work. Interactive, 3D digital projections for learning. Those are a few of the possibilities for the connected home envisioned in a new aspirational video from CableLabs. Watch it below or on CableLabs' website. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kTeavB3IGg Phil McKinney, president and...

Comcast has announced the launch of a Chicago-area trial for a new internet service that delivers speeds up to 1 gigabit per second to customers.  The service will use DOCSIS 3.1 technology to deliver these speeds over the company’s existing network infrastructure. In January, CableLabs gave...

DOCSIS 3.1 allows cable operators to extend lifespan of copper physical plant Continuing to grow its footprint of gigabit internet services, Comcast today began an "advanced trial" of high-speed internet using DOCSIS 3.1 technology in Nashville, Tennessee. The Philadelphia-based company initially trialled DOCSIS 3.1 modems in...

Nokia said it achieved symmetric uplink and downlink speeds of 10 gigabits per second using hybrid fiber coaxial cable. The tests used a prototype technology called XG-Cable, based on applications developed by Bell Labs, which Nokia acquired through its $16.5 billion purchase of Alcatel-Lucent...

DOCSIS 3.1 expanding over extensive Comcast copper network With the buzz around fiber-to-the-home provided by the likes of Google Fiber, Verizon FiOS and AT&T GigaPower, there's a clear trend toward increasing home Internet speeds. But fiber networks are expensive to build, and, at least in...

In a partnership with Arris, the French-based Altice Group is rolling out gigabit Internet services to SFR customers in France, with Suddenlink in the U.S. and Orange-Tricom subscribers in the Dominican Republic. The two companies are deploying the Arris E6000 Converged Edge Router, which sets...

Using the DOCSIS 3.1 standard, Comcast plans to begin offering consumers gigabit-speed Internet over copper in the Atlanta area with plans to expand the service to other markets later in the year. The Philadelphia-based company initially trialled DOCSIS 3.1 modems in its home market, followed...

New entrants into the home broadband market – think Google Fiber, as well as various government-driven initiatives – are putting the pressure on cable and multiple-system operators. One new avenue for competition is adoption of DOCSIS 3.1 technology, which enables competition against more costly...