Americans Remain Highly Satisfied with Home Internet Service
Americans rely on and trust that their home broadband service will perform without a hitch at any time of day and keep them safe online, according to a new Morning Consult study commissioned by NCTA. In fact, 85 percent of American adults rate the overall quality of their home internet service as positive, and specific tested aspects remain equally high. Overall consumer satisfaction with home internet has improved since 2019, a recognition that the marketplace has seen ongoing investment and innovation, increasing competition, and significant increases in speed, capacity, and reliability year
Shaping Tomorrow's Broadband Landscape: NCTA at the 40th SCTE Cable-Tec Expo
The 40th SCTE Cable-Tec Expo commences next week in Denver, and this year the conference will feature a slew of NCTA leaders who will discuss the latest innovation advances and key challenges facing the industry. Take a look below at the critical issues that NCTA, cable broadband experts and engineers will explore at the largest cable tradeshow in the Americas. 10G and Emerging Technologies On Wednesday, CableLabs President and CEO Phil McKinney and NCTA President and CEO Michael Powell will kick off the General Session by reflecting on the path to 10G, emerging technologies, and the industry
Q&A: CableLabs Shares Advancements, Challenges, and Implications of AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a long-standing concept in the technological landscape, but its practical implementation and impact have been transformative in recent years. In the cable industry, AI is revolutionizing operations and service offerings with opportunities for increased network performance, improved efficiency, cost savings, and enhanced customer experiences. In an interview with NCTA, CableLabs Fellow and Vice President of Next-Gen Systems Dr. Bernardo Huberman shed light on the evolving role of AI and the groundbreaking work being done at CableLabs to harness AI's
Back to School: Envisioning Education in the 10G Era
As students gear up to head back to school, the horizon of education is evolving. The future of learning will rely on cutting-edge technologies that demand robust networks with heightened capacity, reliability, and security. Here is where 10G comes in. The broadband network poised to revolutionize how we live, work, learn, and play by enabling innovative tech solutions will undoubtedly reshape education. To gain insight into the impact of 10G, NCTA partnered with the Future Today Institute (FTI) to explore what the experts forecast the landscape of learning to look like. Experiential
DOCSIS 4.0: Technology Powering the Next Generation of Internet Connectivity
As the industry moves towards bringing 10G speeds to households across America, behind the scenes DOCSIS® technology plays a crucial role in making this happen. The new DOCSIS 4.0 specifications are the latest and most advanced version of this technology, promising even faster and more reliable internet connections for the future. But First, What Is DOCSIS Technology? DOCSIS technology, developed by CableLabs—the industry’s R&D consortium—literally stands for "Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification". The DOCSIS specifications are a set of technical standards that govern how internet
Broadband Stats: The Future is Super-Fast
America’s broadband networks continue to expand and evolve, continuing the commitment to delivering tomorrow’s speeds today.
Why Do We Use Bits to Measure Internet Speed but Bytes to Measure Data?
Have you ever wondered why internet speed is measured in bits per second, but the data itself is measured in bytes? Why is this? Wouldn’t it make more sense if we used the same unit of measurement for both data speed and data volume? For those unfamiliar with the fundamentals of data measurement, this post outlines the distinct differences between bits and bytes to clear up some of the confusion surrounding this concept. A bit is the smallest unit of computer information. It’s essentially a single binary data point; either yes or no, on or off, up or down. A byte on the other hand is a unit of
The 10G Future: Education
10G, the broadband network soon delivering superfast symmetrical internet speeds, has the potential to transform how we live, work, learn and play. Education is a field particularly ripe for fresh tech solutions, with new and emerging advancements helping to match a wide variety of learning styles. NCTA partnered with the Future Today Institute (FTI), experts in researching trends and calculating how they will disrupt business, government, and society, to imagine what some cutting-edge changes might look like with 10G. The resulting report honed in on four areas: entertainment, healthcare
Broadband Stats: 10G’s Economic Boost
10G, the broadband network soon delivering superfast symmetrical internet speeds, has the potential to transform the American economy, powering the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” that will enable creators to develop life-changing technologies.
The 10G Future: Entertainment
10G, the broadband network soon delivering superfast symmetrical internet speeds, has the potential to transform how we live, work, learn and play. Exciting advancements mean that entertainment technologies once the stuff of science fiction are now coming to reality, like holograms and virtual reality. NCTA partnered with the Future Today Institute (FTI), experts in researching trends and calculating how they will disrupt business, government and society, to imagine what some cutting-edge changes might look like with 10G. The resulting report honed in on four areas: entertainment, healthcare