DOCSIS 3.1 To Be Part of Network Starting Next Year, Comcast Says

Comcast will start rolling out DOCSIS 3.1 capabilities in its network starting next year, Jorge Salinger, Comcast Cable's vice president-access technology, said in a company blog Friday. The super-fast broadband standard promising gigabit speeds over hybrid fiber-coax networks was a centerpiece at the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers Expo in New Orleans this month, Salinger said: "At nearly every booth on the exhibit floor, the companies that make modems and network equipment ... were showing off their latest DOCSIS 3.1 devices. This past week's Expo brings to life how close we are." Development of the 3.1 specification "has moved faster than any previous version ... and is now being implemented by every major equipment maker in the Internet space," Salinger said.