Comcast said today that it will roll out DOCSIS 4.0 in Colorado Springs next week and to parts of Atlanta and Philadelphia before the end of this year. The company claims this is a world first. “Initially, customers subscribing to…
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Comcast Hits a Key Remote PHY Milestone Instrumental to DOCSIS 4.0 and 10G Plans
Comcast said it has installed more than 100,000 remote PHY (rPHY) digital nodes across its hybrid fiber coax/DOCSIS network. As the company explained, “Digital nodes are a critical part of the distributed access architecture (DAA) that enables the speed increases…
Talking 10G, DOCSIS 4.0 and More with Comcast Chief Network Officer Elad Nafshi
Comcast EVP and Chief Network Officer Elad Nafshi always seems to have a welcoming smile with just a bit of a smirk. And why not? He’s been directing the company’s ambitious network upgrade plans that have been gradually but still…
Fiber Vs. DOCSIS 4.0: How Long Will Fiber’s Edge Last?
Telcos that have been deploying fiber broadband are having a moment in the sun, finally reversing years of broadband subscriber losses to the cable companies. But will this last? What has given telcos an edge is fiber broadband’s ability to…
CableLabs CEO Outlines DOCSIS 4.0 Deployment Timelines
CableLabs CEO Phil McKinney expects to see commercial availability of DOCSIS 4.0 equipment in 2024 or possibly a little sooner. He made his comments about DOCSIS 4.0 deployment timelines in a question-and-answer session with MoffettNathanson financial analyst Craig Moffett. “Right…
Frontier CEO: Cable’s Coming DOCSIS 4.0 is No Competitive Threat
Frontier CEO Nick Jeffery provided an update to investors today at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia & Technology Conference, and it’s quite clear, Jeffery is a fiber fan. He might be the fiber industry’s biggest cheerleader and he doesn’t seem too…
Comcast 10G Lab Test Uses DOCSIS 4.0 to Achieve Symmetrical Multi-Gigabit Speeds
Comcast has conducted a lab test in which a Broadcom system on a chip (SOC) cable modem delivered symmetric speeds faster than 4 Gbps. The lab test, which Comcast says is an industry’s first, used the DOCSIS 4.0 specification, which…
Charter Demonstrates 8.5 Gbps DOCSIS 4.0 Downstream Speeds
Charter has demonstrated speeds exceeding 8.5 Gbps downstream and 6 Gbps upstream on hybrid fiber coax infrastructure, according to a press release from Vecima Networks, which supplied the DOCSIS 4.0 system on a chip (SoC) for remote MACPHY device (RMD)…
Charter Plots DOCSIS 4.0 vs Fiber Strategy
High-split network upgrades are “the more up and coming expenditure in parallel with DOCSIS 4.0” as Charter looks toward future capex plans, said Charter CFO Chris Winfrey on a virtual investor conference webcast today. Winfrey also noted that Charter believes…
Comcast DOCSIS 4.0 Test Puts Fiber Broadband Competitors on Notice
Comcast said today that it completed a lab test of a DOCSIS 4.0 full duplex system on a chip (SOC) that will be a critical component of multi-gigabit services to be deployed in the future. In an interview with Telecompetitor,…
10G Capability for Cable Broadband Inches Closer as DOCSIS 4.0 Specification Published
CableLabs today published the DOCSIS 4.0 specification, which incorporates full-duplex and extended spectrum capabilities. According to CableLabs, DOCSIS 4.0 achieves a downstream speed of up to 10 Gbps (doubling the maximum download speed available with DOCSIS 3.1 technology) and an…
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