By Kimberly Maki – Over the past few months, I have had the opportunity to attend and engage in conversations across the industry at MetroConnect to NRECA’s PowerXchange and TechAdvantage to the NRTC Annual Meeting, and SCTE’s Chapter Leadership Conference.
By Maria Popo – That advantage doesn’t come from infrastructure. It comes from people who know how to develop capability in others. In every high-performing operations team, there are individuals who make the people around them better.…
By Ken Klaer – Data centers are expanding. Edge locations are multiplying. Artificial intelligence is reshaping how networks are designed, managed, and optimized. The infrastructure behind our digital economy is becoming more powerful…
By Jim Kane and Nick Achberger (sponsored) – In a dynamic broadband landscape where speed, reliability, and scalability are critical, two industry leaders—AFL and Amphenol Broadband Solutions (ABS)—have partnered to bring network operators a streamlined, factory-i…
By Sahil Yadav (sponsored) – If you have managed an HFC plant, you know what upstream ingress troubleshooting costs. A technician drives to the first amplifier on the cascade, opens the housing, disconnects the upstream port, measures the return pa…
By James Medlock (sponsored) – DOCSIS PNM Meets AI Vibe Coding Proactive network maintenance (PNM) has always been driven by data. From the early days of pre-equalization analysis to today’s use of full band capture, OFDM(A) channel metrics, a…
By Brady Volpe – The answer, as of early 2026, is more encouraging than you might expect—and more uneven. Some operators are running AI at genuine scale, automating decisions across tens of millions of devices. CableLabs is building age…
By Ron Hranac – Ours is a world of numbers, and in cable we use a lot of really big and really small numbers. Dealing with very large and small numbers can, perhaps unsurprisingly, be cumbersome. Fortunately, there are several ways to…
By Jeff Finkelstein – The TVM is Finance 101: a dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow because of its earning potential. Cable operators applying this principle might delay major DOCSIS 4.0 upgrades, preserving capital for higher-…
By Steven Harris – Unlocking Field Efficiency in Modern Fiber Deployments As broadband networks expand deeper into neighborhoods, rural areas, and dense urban environments, the industry is undergoing a fundamental shift—not only in where…
By Grant Spellmeyer – Our nation must lead in delivering these advances so they benefit everyone—not just major tech hubs and large cities, but all the hardworking people in small towns, farming communities, and rural regions that are the ba…
By Mike Regan – This rapid expansion is placing increased pressure on the entire data center ecosystem to deliver infrastructure that is consistent, reliable, and scalable at a global level. Across the end‑to‑end value chain—from desig…
By Hon. Cory Gardner (as first published in National Review) – I grew up in rural eastern Colorado in a family that sold farm equipment for more than a century. Recently, I came across a 1930 McCormick-Deering tractor sales…
By Gary Bolton – The sheer size and scale of these projects is mind-boggling. Consider Meta’s Hyperion data center, a four million square foot facility being built in Northeast Louisiana that will deliver over 2 gigawatts of computing c…
By Matt Polka – Customer service traditionally relied on call centers built around humans. Skilled agents were the front line for resolving customer concerns, from billing to technical. Training, scripting, and process improvement elev…
By Diane Christman – Now, we are taking a deliberate step forward. The sale of The Cable Center building to the University of Denver has been completed. This milestone reflects a clear focus on the future of our mission and how we best serv…
By Allen Maharaj – Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are quickly becoming a new layer in network operations. Across the broadband industry, operators are exploring AI to manage increasingly complex infrastructure, ana…