Comcast has deployed mid splits to 25% of its base and is on track to have them deployed to one third of its base by year-end, said Comcast Chief Financial Officer Jason Armstrong on the company’s second quarter earnings call…
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Cox Shares Details on Plans to Launch Multi-Gigabit Service to Half Its Base This Year
Cox Communications plans to launch multi-gigabit service to half its base before year end. The services will be based on a combination of fiber broadband and hybrid fiber coax/DOCSIS, Ed Shrum, Cox vice president of wireline engineering, told Telecompetitor. The…
NCTA Touts 10G Smart Ag Use Cases
The widespread availability of 10G in the future will transform the face of American agriculture, according new a new NCTA smart ag white paper. The cable industry uses the term “10G” to encompass a range of innovations aimed at boosting…
Multi-Gigabit Grail: Charter Exec Said 2024 for vCMTS Deployment, Vendor Revealed
Virtualized broadband equipment supplier Harmonic said today that Charter will use the Harmonic virtualized cable modem termination system (vCMTS) to support the cable company’s DOCSIS 3.1, DOCSIS 4.0 and distributed access architecture (DAA) plans – which are all part of…
Comcast Gains a Key Element Needed for Symmetrical Multi-Gigabit Plans
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…
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…
Mediacom CTO Shares 10G Deployment Details with Symmetrical Speed Target Date of…
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 Completes 10G Upgrades to 10M Locations, Symmetrical Multi-Gigabit Won’t Be Far Behind
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…
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…
Analyst: Why Charter’s Network Upgrade Budget is Less Than Comcast’s
Comcast is targeting “less than $200” per location to upgrade its network to support higher and more symmetrical broadband speeds, but Charter is only targeting $100 per location with the same goal, note financial analysts from MoffettNathanson in a research…
Multi-Gig Broadband: Charter to Invest $100 Per Location to Upgrade Entire Footprint by 2025
Charter said today that it will invest $100 per location to upgrade its entire broadband footprint by 2025. The $100-per-location price tag is a low one, particularly in comparison with what telcos are investing to deploy fiber broadband — typically…
What’s Missing from Comcast Symmetrical Multi-Gigabit Live Connection Announcement
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…
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