Cable Show 2011: Time Warner, Comcast, bury the platform hatchet

By Alan Breznick

CHICAGO—Bid adieu to the dueling cable next-generation access networks from Comcast and Time Warner Cable. The two giant U.S. MSOs have decided to bury the hatchet and merge their two proposed industry standards into one.At the Cable Show here earlier this week, CableLabs announced that it has settled the budding technical and operational differences between the two next-gen architectures – Comcast’s Converged Multiservice Access Platform (CMAP) and Time Warner Cable’s Converged Edge Services Access Router (CESAR). Called the Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP), the new compromise standard will basically incorporate features from both networks.CableLabs also released an updated technical report...