Life in Translation
By Stewart Schley — During the summer when she was eight years old, the girl who would become Leslie Ellis rode across the country in an RV crammed full of La-Z-Boy recliners.
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DOCSIS® and Mobile Convergence
By Dr. Jennifer Andreoli-Fang — Some 20 years ago, I moved off college student housing where everything was provided for me, to attend graduate school and live in off-campus apartments. Like every other consumer, I signed up for cable broadband, landline telephone, and cellular phone service, all from different service providers.
Read MoreEnabling the Next Wireless Generation
By Erik Gronvall — For years, mobile network operators (MNOs) have tried to deploy small cells to boost coverage and increase capacity. Deployments are limited because of the costs and MNOs end up going back to the macro site to increase capacity.
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5G Low Latency Requirements
By Ronan McLaughlin — 5G brings together a new radio (NR), and a cloud native 5G core (5GC) enabling a service-based architecture implemented as microservices deployed in containers. The 5G architecture also delivers a true separation of control plane (CP) and user plane (UP) functionalities, which enables advanced network slicing capabilities.
Read MoreCBRS: A Spectrum Policy Experiment — Cable is Best Positioned to Benefit
By Rajat Ghai — In the first of its kind spectrum policy experiment by the FCC, Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS), also commonly known as the innovation band, is a 150 MHz-wide shared spectrum in the 3.55 GHz to 3.7 GHz band.
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The History of Wi-Fi and Emergence of Wi-Fi 6
By Chris Bastian — Where would we be without Wi-Fi, and specifically the IEEE 802.11 group of wireless standards? We have grown accustomed to our laptops and smart phones smoothly interoperating with thousands of Wi-Fi access points as we transit from place to place, supporting our video streaming, web browsing, and gaming needs.
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Guiding Trends for Tomorrow’s Smart Home Wireless Services
By Charles Cheevers — What changes will dominate the home wireless services market in the next five years? Several fundamental trends are emerging that will guide device and solution requirements for next-generation homes.
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What Can DOCSIS PNM Do For Me?
By Brady S. Volpe — Proactive network maintenance (PNM) has been steadily growing in acceptance and popularity over the past several years with adoption amongst cable operators from Tier 1 such as Comcast all the way to the smallest Tier 4 operators.
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PNM at CableLabs®
By Jason Rupe — CableLabs went into high gear with proactive network maintenance (PNM) not long ago and has big plans for the future of PNM. Success will rely on the cable community’s strong focus on furthering PNM in several directions.
Read MoreAn Introduction to PNM
By Ron Hranac — Linear distortions—micro-reflections, amplitude ripple/tilt, and group delay distortion—wreak havoc upon the digital signals carried in our cable networks.
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