Comcast said it will invest $280 million this year in its Pacific Northwest Region — which encompasses Oregon and Washington. The investment includes network upgrades, network expansion and civic contributions and involvement. The region serves 2.8 million residential and business…
Cable industry network upgrades have a lot of moving parts. Accordingly, Comcast has been announcing its network upgrades in bits and pieces. The latest news comes in a blog post today touting a breakthrough the company says it made in…
Comcast said today that it received the first prototype full duplex DOCSIS (FDX) amplifiers for system testing. The amplifiers, supplied by CommScope, are one of several elements necessary to suppport Comcast’s plans to offer symmetrical multi-gigabit services. A Comcast spokesperson…
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…
Mediacom said today that it plans to upgrade its cable network infrastructure in West Des Moines, Iowa to incorporate certain 10G elements by July. A key benefit will be to support symmetrical speeds up to 1 Gbps. In a video…
Comcast said today that it expects to launch its latest Xfinity 10G network upgrade to 10 million homes and locations by the end of this month. The company said those locations had received “foundational network enhancements” required to begin deploying…
Comcast said today that it successfully completed a trial of 10G and full duplex DOCSIS 4.0 technology delivering symmetrical multi-gigabit speeds on a live connection. The company said it will continue to trial the technology “over the next several months…
CableLabs today announced six winners of The 10G Challenge, a competition meant to inspire innovators to leverage emerging 10G broadband networks. An industry consortium of NCTA, CableLabs, and Cable Europe has established a 10G brand, calling it the next leap…
Comcast said it has completed a successful test of newly designed full-duplex DOCSIS 4.0 (FDX) amplifiers, which according to the company, was “the final core element of the 10G ecosystem that needed to be tested to ensure 10G technology could…
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – (June 13, 2022)— Adtran®, Inc., (NASDAQ: ADTN), the leading provider of next-generation multi-gigabit fiber access and fiber extension solutions, today announced Horizon has selected the Adtran 10G fiber access platform and intelligent SaaS software to build a new fiber network throughout several communities in…
Cable One said it has invested $950 million over the past three years to upgrade its network to be prepared to offer 10G services. The investments were made across all the company brands, which include Sparklight, Fidelity, Hargray and ValuNet….
Comcast said it achieved speeds of 8.5 Gbps downstream and 6 Gbps upstream on a live network using several elements of the cable industry 10G standard, including DOCSIS 4.0. It’s important news, considering that until now cable companies have generally…
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