Cable-Tec 2019: Next-gen DOCSIS direction is set

NEW ORLEANS – Ending months of squabbling over the industry's next-generation broadband specifications, cable's tech leaders have decided to split the difference by pursuing two separate, but related, paths to the promised 10 Gig future at the same time.Speaking at the SCTE ISBE Cable-Tec Expo show here earlier this month, cable technologists hailed the two "complementary" routes they plan to take to deliver much higher data speeds under the uniform banner of the next-gen DOCSIS 4.0 specs. The two routes are: Full Duplex DOCSIS (FDX), a technology that will enable upstream and downstream data traffic to run over the exact...