CABLE-TEC 2014: Wi-Fi, DOCSIS 3.1, dominate cable technology agenda; life left still in HFC

DENVER – With Gigabit Fever now sweeping the land, cable technologists are heavily focused on beefing up their broadband capabilities, both on the wireline and wireless ends.At the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo show here last week, cable engineers stressed how they are developing, testing and deploying next-gen broadband technologies to stave off the Gigabit thrusts of Google Fiber, AT&T, CenturyLink and the like. They insisted that cable's hybrid-fibre coax (HFC) networks still have the chops to match and exceed the blazing-fast speeds that the industry's telco and ISP rivals are increasingly rolling out throughout North America with the aid of all-fibre,...