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on Tuesday, June 4. Returning by popular demand for the seventh straight year, Cable Next-Gen Europe is a free, three-hour digital event that will examine how the European broadband landscape is rapidly changing as cable operators, fibre providers, wireless operators and other broadband players develop and deploy next-gen access technologies. Specifically, the symposium will focus on the European cable industry’s latest moves with DOCSIS 3.1, DOCSIS 4.0, fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP), XCS-PON, DAA, spectrum mid-splits and high-splits, network virtualisation, artificial intelligence, network automation, machine learning and other new technologies, platforms and services. So please join us on June 4 for our Cable Next-Gen Europe digital symposium and register via the link below.
intensely competitive environment over the next decade. As a result, they are scrambling to create proofs-of-concept, conduct lab tests, run field trials, deploy new equipment, develop fresh business models and plan their next moves. Yet the clock is ticking for cablecos as fibre, fixed wireless and mobile providers continue to make impressive strides in the European broadband market and lure cable’s customers away. Operators also face the prospect of shelling out huge sums of capital to upgrade their legacy networks and keep them competitive at a time when some governments are subsidising fibre builds by new players. So what does the future hold for European cable? Which network upgrade strategies will prove successful? How well can cablecos keep up with the fibre rollouts of such aggressive telco rivals as BT, Orange, Deutsche Telekom and Telefonica? These are the questions that we will examine in Light Reading’s Cable Next-Gen Europe digital symposium
There are no easy answers to these questions. Yet they must be tackled as European cablecos grapple with their ever-loosening grip on the continent’s broadband market. Operators must find ways to maintain and even bolster their competitive position if they wish to survive and thrive for many more years to come. Fortunately for cablecos, there are numerous steps they can take. These steps include: adopting enhanced versions of DOCSIS 3.1, rolling out DOCSIS 4.0, building fibre extensions to their existing HFC plant, replacing their GFC networks with all-fibre lines, deploying distributed access architecture (DAA) technology, carrying out spectrum mid-splits and high-splits, and leveraging network virtualisation, automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and other new technologies. While few, if any, European operators are looking to pursue all these options at the same time, most are examining multiple technologies, platforms and services as they search for the magic formula to survive and thrive in an
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