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…
Cox Communications has upgraded its broadband tiers to most of its residential customers without raising prices. The upgrade involves “fiber powered” connections. Asked what “fiber powered” meant, a Cox spokesperson tole Telecompetitor that the company’s FTTH network and its DOCSIS…
Comcast is kicking off a trial of low-latency DOCSIS (LLD) today. The technology is designed to enable content providers or app developers desiring low-latency connectivity to mark traffic as latency-sensitive in order to improve performance. As Comcast Vice President Jason…
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%…
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