DOCSIS 3.1 to Be Smarter, Faster and Cheaper2012-10-17 09:45 by DanielaTags: DOCSIS 3.1
The future of the DOCSIS 3.1 standard will be discussed Thursday during a special session at the annual Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) conference. According to CableLabs CEO, Phil McKinney, the new standard will be backwards-compatible with prior versions and will look to support "multi-gigabit speeds". McKinney said CableLabs and its members and vendor partners started to work on Docsis 3.1 in earnest about 60 days ago. He didn't go into all of the technical details, but said the aim is to help get Docsis to achieve speeds well above 1 Gbit/s. Vendors have openly discussed the idea of getting the next generation of Docsis to pursue capacities of 10 Gbit/s in the downstream and 2 Gbit/s in the upstream. Several cable operators are using Docsis 3.0 today to offer broadband services that max out at about 100Mbit/s in the downstream. The new standard will also focus on the quality of cable's pipe, reduced latency and other smarts designed to help enable a new set of broadband-based services. Cable's interest in offering 4K HD services, which offer four times the resolution of today's HD, was an example that was brought up several times during the session. Read more -here-
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