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Articles CableLabs takes another step towards 10G with DOCSIS 4.0 specs Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 3/26/2020 CableLabs has released the specifications for DOCSIS 4.0, a technology that will put the industry on a path toward speeds of 10 Gbit/s downstream and up to 6 Gbit/s in the upstream. BBWN Bites: EU calls for HD restraint Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 3/19/2020 Also in this roundup: RDK's popular; WBA assumes control of Cisco's OpenRoaming; Virgin Media offers Gigabit to 1 million homes; and more. Upstream silver lining for cable kit vendors Ken Wieland, contributing editor, 3/17/2020 If 2019 was pretty much a year to forget for cable equipment suppliers, 2020 need not be all doom and gloom. (See Cable access network spending dropped 30% in 2019 - Dell'Oro.) COVID-19: More ISPs relax data caps to help customers Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 3/17/2020 Several US cable operators and telcos are temporarily lifting data caps and data overage charges to help deal the higher data demands expected from the COVID-19 outbreak that is forcing millions of people to work from home. US Senate stamps Broadband DATA Act Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 3/11/2020 The US Senate on Tuesday unanimously passed the Broadband Deployment Accuracy and Technological Availability (Broadband DATA) Act, an initiative that aims to push the FCC to fix outdated broadband maps illustrating where data services are available, and where they are still lacking. BBWN Bites: Cable increases its dominance of US broadband market Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 3/9/2020 In this broadband sector news roundup: US cable cements its broadband stronghold; Italians at loggerheads; CityFibre shifts up a gear; UK's FTTH market linked to more funding; Canada's Xplornet snapped up for $2 billion. PON OLT momentum a bright spot in dim broadband access market Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 3/5/2020 2019 was a mixed bag for the global broadband access market, as PON OLT shipments climbed 16% and cable infrastructure spending dropped about 30%, according to new data from Dell'Oro. Broadcom, Intel put Wi-Fi 6 through its paces at 6GHz Ken Wieland, contributing editor, 3/4/2020 Encouragingly for operators wanting to break down broadband bottlenecks in the home, the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) - an industry association that promotes Wi-Fi interoperability between operators - flagged what it claimed were successful trials of next-gen Wi-Fi 6 technology in the 6GHz frequency band. Altice USA goes for gig Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 2/13/2020 Like most of its cable peers, Altice USA is finally joining the gigabit gang in earnest, as it accelerates its upgrade to FTTH networks in much of its territory and rolls out DOCSIS 3.1 in the New York City metro area. MWC2020: WiFi 6.0 and the broadband CPE market Broadband World News, , 2/5/2020 Ahead of Mobile World Congress, Omdia's principal research analyst, John Kendall, talks about developments in the broadband CPE market as WiFi 6.0 becomes a technology that can help counter smart home bottlenecks. USDA invests $146M in rural broadband infrastructure this week alone Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 1/31/2020 This week, the USDA pledged about $145.8 million in rural-broadband spending in seven states. 1 Comment Broadband Forum Takes on Carrier-Grade WiFi Challenge Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 1/24/2020 The Broadband Forum is focused on developing carrier-grade WiFi, while it sees ongoing projects in connected home, broadband abstraction and WiFi management begin to bear fruit this year. 3 comments Load More Articles + All Articles All Video All Slide Shows All Articles Evolving unlicensed 5G applications: Closing the divide in mobile and last-mile connections Pam Baker, Freelance Writer, 10/23/2019 Unlicensed 5G applications open a new world of benefits to enterprises large and small, given their use of exceptionally wide bandwidth or broad channels at a time when other spectrum is nearing exhaustion. All blogs		Industry Announcements Everstream secures $342.5M in debt financing 12 hours and 6 minutes ago TDS Metrocom to build FTTH network in Idaho Friday, April 3, 2020 IMU picks Calix to deploy next-generation fiber Thursday, April 2, 2020 Veego adds Amdocs as partner, investor Tuesday, March 24, 2020 Royell gains customer insight with Calix Tuesday, March 17, 2020 TDS waives broadband fees for students for 60 days Monday, March 16, 2020 HCI picks Calix for fiber deployment Monday, March 16, 2020 More Industry Announcements Sponsored Video Ronan Kelly, ADTRAN CTO, EMEA & APAC, shares his thoughts on the regulatory and government policy, technology adoption and consumer services ... Ronan Kelly, ADTRAN CTO, EMEA & APC, shares his thoughts on industry operators leveraging virtualization, disaggregation and open SDN control, ... Network slicing promises to be a panacea, but the biggest hurdles are not technological. The grand ambition of enabling intelligent, adaptive, ... F-Secure has been providing security for endpoints for 30 years, and using AI and machine learning algorithms, for example in the labs to automate ... Fahri Diner, CEO and Co-founder of Plume, unveiled a new open source initiative, OpenSync, at Broadband World Forum 2018. Announced together with ... All Videos Information Resources >> Home Networking Applications Outpacing your Wi-Fi? >> Accelerate Your Time to Revenue by Simplifying Your OSS/BSS Integration with AXOS >> Open for Business: Future Flexibility for Smart Home Services >> Improving Wi-Fi capacity and efficiency in the Connected Home with Wi-Fi 6 >> Tracking Critical KPIs to Improve the Subscriber Experience >> When Less is More… the Power of Aggregation Simplified. >> Harbour ISP Supports Three Times as Many Users With netElastic >> Telpin Saves 70% With netElastic >> White Paper: Next Generation Virtual BNGs – Is Your Broadband Network Ready? >> Tracking Critical KPIs to Improve the Subscriber Experience All resources Video The lines are blurring between streaming media and pay-TV devices and CSPs need to figure out how to manage that change, says Omdia analyst Paul ... Omdia's principal research analyst, John Kendall, discusses whole home solutions and the importance of WiFi strategies to communications service ... Ahead of Mobile World Congress, Omdia's principal research analyst, John Kendall, talks about developments in the broadband CPE market as WiFi 6.0 ... At the recent Broadband World Forum, Alzbeta Fellenbaum, a principal analyst and manager of research at IHS Markit, discusses the broadband speed ... At the Broadband World Forum in Amsterdam, Michael Philpott, senior practice leader of Ovum's Consumer Services team, outlines the key ... All Videos Webinars ARCHIVED Tuesday, March 24, 2020 11:00 a.m. New York / 3:00 p.m London Transforming Your Network Through Virtualization Over the next two years, approximately 60% of service providers (both large and small) will adopt virtualization on a wide scale across their networks, according to the latest survey report from Ovum. Why are providers making these moves? Is there an easy way to start? Learn how and why service providers are using virtualization to transform their networks. This webinar will look at how providers are leveraging virtualization to create more flexible and agile networks while also providing a better customer experience. Expert speakers from netElastic and Heavy Reading will address the industry drivers for network virtualization, the benefits that can be realized, the challenges to face and the results of virtualization being achieved by providers today. Key topics will include: Current network infrastructure and the move to virtualization Benefits and challenges of network virtualization How providers can get started Service provider success stories: the decision to virtualize, the solution, and results More Webinars Webinar Archives Partner Perspectives - from our sponsors Evolving unlicensed 5G applications: Closing the divide in mobile and last-mile connections By Sivers IMA What Service Providers Should Know About WiFi 6 By Greg Owens, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Calix Turning the Keys to State-of-the-Art 5G mmWave By Sivers IMA Necessity Is the Mother of Invention By Mark Weller New Initiative Looks to Open the Mesh & Help ISPs Fight Back By Plume All Partner Perspectives Broadband World Forum Perspectives 9/27/2019 BBWF Interview: Rogers Communications' Lindsey Omelon on the Evolving Customer Digital Experience As the Senior Digital Experience Strategist at Canadian operator Rogers Communications, Lindsey Omelon build on her years of marketing experience to approach her strategy with a hybrid ... Post a Comment 9/11/2019 BBWF Interview: KT's JP Lee on AI in Telecoms There's certainly no shortage of hype around the use of AI in the telecoms sector, but fewer instances of real-world deployments. South Korean national operator KT is one of those ... Post a Comment 9/9/2019 BBWF Interview: MyRepublic's Jay Shah Cuts Through the AI Hype Do a Google search of 'artificial intelligence broadband' and you'll get more than 9 million results in less than a second: The sheer volume of content out there shouldn't surprise anyone ... Post a Comment 8/30/2019 BBWF Interview: Comcast's Michael Soileau on Tackling Transformation Comcast, like any other major communications service provider, is undergoing significant changes in the way it grows its business, how it runs its business and the technologies it uses to ... Post a Comment 8/19/2019 BBWF Interview: NOS's Manuel Eanes on the Smart Home Opp for Telcos Five years ago, NOS board member Manuel Ramalho Eanes banked big on smart homes and smart cities. Post a Comment All Broadband World Forum Perspectives