According to a Dell’Oro Group forecast, worldwide sales of PON equipment for fiber-to-the-home deployments, cable broadband access equipment, and fixed wireless CPE will all increase from 2022 to 2027, as service providers continue to expand their fiber, DOCSIS 4.0 and…
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…
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….
Continuing the trend of cable companies providing free speed upgrades in order to match competitors’ offerings, TDS Telecommunications is increasing download speeds to 18,000 subscribers in St. George, UT. Although best known as a telecom company, TDS operates cable HFC/DOCSIS…
Cox said today that it is planning to invest multiple billions of dollars to upgrade its network to support multi-gigabit symmetrical speeds “over the next several years.” The company plans to use a combination of fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) and DOCSIS 4.0…
Comcast reported 4Q21 and full year 2021 results today. The company’s broadband growth slowed significantly, creating an interesting comparison to competitor AT&T. Comcast net broadband adds of 212K in 4Q21 are down over 60% from 4Q20, which saw net broadband…
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 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)…
Cable One, a diversified broadband provider operating the Sparklight, Fidelity, ValuNet Fiber and Hargray brands, is on a path to launch 10 Gbps service, the company announced this week. Cable One says it already makes gigabit service available to 99%…
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 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,…
Comcast says that it has achieved symmetrical 1.25 Gbps transmission on a live production network in Florida. The Comcast symmetrical 1.25 Gbps trial involves a home in Jacksonville. The trial is running on a network built on Comcast’s Distributed Access…
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