Fighting Fiber with Fiber, Cable Next-Gen Technologies & Strategies

1:30 PM – 2:15 PM New York


Fighting fiber with fiber has become the cable industry's mantra. Even as they complete their rollouts of DOCSIS 3.1 and start prepping for DOCSIS 4.0, cable operators are racing to put more fiber in their HFC networks to expand bandwidth capacity, offer faster data speeds, launch new services, cut operational costs and compete with rival providers. Yet, even as they invest more heavily in fiber, cablecos face critical questions about how to leverage those investments to the fullest. This panel will explore where cablecos are going with fiber, examine the challenges they face and discuss the implications.