The Futurist

By Jeff Finkelstein – DOCSIS 3.1 and DOCSIS 3.1+ will provide more than enough bandwidth to support the industry for the next 15 to 20 years.

By Jeff Finkelstein – Ever since the dawn of time, humans have been hooked on speed. The first Olympics in 776 BC was all about running events to see who was the fastest. The winners got all the glory, while the losers didn’t fare so well.

By Jeff Finkelstein – The cable industry has been hearing about the magical mystical virtual CMTS for the past 14 years or so. The transformation of the CMTS from a monolithic to virtualized architecture has been in progress for the past ~10 years.

By Jeff Finkelstein – For those that attended this year’s SCTE TechExpo, you likely witnessed some exciting things. Vendors have made progress on developing DOCSIS 4.0 passives, actives, vCMTS, and tools.

By Jeff Finkelstein – Some current angst was not caused by anything that happened with DOCSIS 4.0. Instead, it came from those inside the industry looking even further out as some were thinking about not DOCSIS.next, but Cable.next.

By Jeff Finkelstein – There has been much written about product lifecycles, but I believe technologies have their own unique lifecycle. The more I pondered this I realized that there is more to it. I talked to quite a few folks about this and now consider technology as in one of four stages. There is no sharp cut-off between them as it typically happens organically.

By Jeff Finkelstein – While quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize various industries, it may not be needed for the next 20 years. The current limitations, lack of practical applications, high costs, alternative technologies