2013 CABLE-TEC: Bigger bandwidth DOCSIS 3.1 nearly ready, says CableLabs

ATLANTA—Racing to a finish even faster than it predicted in a “bold” forecast last fall, CableLabs proclaimed Monday that its new DOCSIS 3.1 specification crafted for next-gen cable broadband service will be publicly issued by the end of this month and completed shortly thereafter. In a DOCSIS 3.1 Engineering Symposium held a day before the opening of the annual SCTE Cable-Tec Expo convention here, Matthew Schmitt, director of DOCSIS activities for CableLabs, said the new DOCSIS 3.1 specs will be available before the year-end deadline that he publicly set last October. He also said the new broadband specs will fulfill...