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News & Views Most Popular Light Reading Packs Double Wallop at Cable-Tec Expo By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 8/19/2019 For the first time, Light Reading will offer two breakfast roundtables on key tech topics at this fall's SCTE\|ISBE Cable-Tec Expo in New Orleans – the first on network virtualization and the second on cable and 5G. Post a Comment Huawei Cuts Back on Cable By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/14/2019 Chinese vendor is backing away from the cable network business amid pressures from the US-China trade war and the loss of critical business with cable operators in portions of Europe, industry sources said. Post a Comment Cisco Halts Investment in Full Duplex DOCSIS By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/9/2019 Says it's suspending spending on FDX until market timing, ecosystem development and size of the market opportunity can be quantified. Post a Comment Advertisement CommScope Eliminates COO Slot as Arris Biz Struggles By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/8/2019 Departure of long-time Arris exec Bruce McClelland comes about four months after acquisition and as the unit grapples with an expected temporary decline in cable operator capital spending. Post a Comment CommScope Carves Migration Path to Remote PHY By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/5/2019 CommScope says new remote PHY modules can be snapped into most of its deployed base of fiber nodes and allow for targeted rollouts in areas where cable operators need to add capacity. Post a Comment Former Dish Wireless Exec to Take R&D Helm at CableLabs By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/2/2019 Mariam Sorond was most recently chief wireless architect and VP of technology development at Dish. Post a Comment Casa Sees Cable Spending Perk Up in Q2 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/1/2019 After a rough and tumble Q1, cable operators opened the spending spigots on network capacity a bit in Q2 even as many continue to explore and develop their next-gen access network strategies. Post a Comment Advertisement Casa Hit by Downgrade as Virtualization Threatens Its Core Cable Biz By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 7/31/2019 But Raymond James analyst says Casa's recent acquisition of NetComm could help the vendor gain traction in wireless and diversify its business. Post a Comment Harmonic Sheds More Light on Big 'CableOS' Deal With Comcast By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 7/30/2019 Four-year $175 million enterprise licensing deal covers headend software, with potential to reduce those fees should Comcast opt to buy other products, including nodes and other network hardware, from Harmonic. Post a Comment Meeting Cable's 10G Challenge Without Lots More Fiber By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 7/22/2019 Cable operators may not not need to go all-fiber or adopt the new Full Duplex DOCSIS spec to deliver symmetrical 10Gbit/s speeds to broadband subscribers. Post a Comment The Right Strategy for Modernizing Cable By Tom Cloonan, Tom Cloonan, CTO of Network Solutions, CommScope, 7/19/2019 Operators are challenged with finding a tech-agnostic approach and a data-driven upgrade strategy that will stand the test of time. Post a Comment D3.1 Finally (Really) Debuts Down Under By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 7/17/2019 Australian government-backed wholesale broadband provider concludes successful D3.1 field trial on a retail operator's HFC network in Victoria, achieving download speeds of nearly 1 Gig. Post a Comment Comcast Commits Millions to Harmonic's 'CableOS' Platform By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 7/9/2019 Under the new enterprise license, Comcast will pay $175 million in software license fees over four years in a move that could help to fuel the cable op's access network virtualization efforts. Post a Comment The Road to DOCSIS 4.0 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/26/2019 DOCSIS has taken a few twists and turns over the past 20 years as it heads toward a next-generation of specs that support Full Duplex DOCSIS, low-latency DOCSIS and Extended Spectrum DOCSIS capabilities. Post a Comment CableLabs Kicks Off Pursuit of DOCSIS 4.0 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/24/2019 New specs will repackage recent annexes and enhancements to DOCSIS 3.1, such as Full Duplex DOCSIS and Low Latency DOCSIS, and add in new Extended Spectrum DOCSIS capabilities. Post a Comment Power Shift in Cable Access Network Market Underway By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/19/2019 Harmonic riding high on stock upgrade as 'big bet' on the virtual CCAP shows signs of paying off, and as CommScope get downgraded amid tough start for recently acquired Arris. Post a Comment Cable Access Network Spending Falls 38% in Q1 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/11/2019 'Strong slowdown' on capacity purchases alongside ongoing delay in distributed access architecture deployments combine for a dreary quarter, according to Dell'Oro. Post a Comment Nokia, Altibox Give Cable Network Virtualization a Dose of Reality By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/10/2019 Deployments of cable distributed access architectures and network virtualization aren't going gangbusters yet, but recent activities in Europe also show that it's not at a standstill, either. Post a Comment Why Cable DAA Is DOA This Year By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 6/7/2019 Cable technologists say DAA rollouts have not ramped up as expected this year because of a variety of factors but still express optimism about 2020 prospects. Post a Comment Cable Techies Eye 25-Gig Path By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 6/6/2019 Even though cable's 10-Gig-enabling broadband spec, Full Duplex DOCSIS, hasn't hit the streets yet, some leading industry engineers are already laying the groundwork for a future DOCSIS spec that would support symmetrical speeds of up to 25 Gigs. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Casa Demos Virtual CCAP, Low-Latency DOCSIS 3.1 Monday, August 5, 2019 Casa Q2 Revenues Drop to $52.1M Wednesday, July 31, 2019 CommScope Debuts Remote PHY Device Monday, July 29, 2019 Harmonic Revenues Drop 14% in Q2 as CableOS Deployments Rise Monday, July 29, 2019 SCTE-ISBE Adds Distributed Access Architecture Course Monday, July 15, 2019 Dev Systemtechnik Touts DOCSIS 3.1 Remote PHY Interop Thursday, June 13, 2019 Vector Expands Professional Services Friday, June 7, 2019 Altibox Gets Real With Nokia's Virtualized DAA Node Thursday, June 6, 2019 Teleste Joins Viavi's DAA 'Test-Ready' Certification Program Wednesday, June 5, 2019 Harmonic Adds Low-Latency Mode to 'CableOS,' Touts Remote PHY Device Interop Tuesday, June 4, 2019 VeEX Brings New Test & Measurement Gear to Anga Com Tuesday, June 4, 2019 Promptlink's 'Network NoiseHawk' Pinpoints Sources of Noise on HFC Networks Monday, June 3, 2019 Excentis Hosts DOCSIS 3.1 & Remote PHY Interop Wednesday, May 29, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Nuclear Plant Security Compromised by Financially Motivated Insiders Larry Loeb, Author, 8/23/2019 Equipment at a nuclear power plant in Ukraine was used to mine cryptocurrency. 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