LAS VEGAS – With wireless touting 5G, cable jumped in with 10G at the Consumer Electronics Show on Monday.
NCTA – The Internet & Television Association, CableLabs and Cable Europe introduced the cable industry’s vision for delivering 10 gigabit networks (or 10G), a new technology platform that will ramp up from today’s 1GB to 10 gigabits per second and beyond to consumers. To support the rollout, Intel will deliver 10 gigabit ready technology from the network infrastructure to home gateways.
According to the announcement, Rogers and Shaw Communications (both also wireless companies…) are joining U.S. cable giants Comcast, Charter, Cox, Mediacom, and Midco as well as international operators Vodafone, Taiwan Broadband Communications, Telecom Argentina, and Liberty Global in implementing the new 10G initiative. Lab trials are already underway and field trials will begin in 2020.
10G’s promise of faster speeds, more capacity, lower latency and greater security will enable and help fully realize a wide variety of new services and applications that will change the way millions of consumers, educators, businesses and innovators interact with the world, continues the announcement.
