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CABLE SHOW 2014: Cable aims for gigabit era


LOS ANGELES - Attempting to fight back against the escalating 1 Gig rollouts of Google Fiber, AT&T, CenturyLink and other broadband rivals, leading U.S. cable operators are boosting their own high-speed data speeds and looking to make a splash with catchier name for the next-gen DOCSIS 3.1 broadband specThree of the 10 biggest U.S. MSOs announced plans to increase downstream as high as 1 Gbps, either at the Cable Show in Los Angeles last week or leading right into it. Each of Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications and Mediacom Communications aim to launch the speed increases in several or more...