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Mark your calendars. Oct. 23 could become an important date in the evolution of the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification and the PacketCable initiative.
Following several delays that pushed initial DOCSIS 1.1 certification tests from summer into fall, Cable Television Laboratories Inc. officials said the first certification wave for DOCSIS 1.1 equipment will begin Oct. 23.
That wave, which should run about eight weeks, will test the interoperability of cable modems and cable-modem-termination systems (CMTSs) built to those specifications.
CableLabs director of broadband test programs Thomas Gallagher said certification wave 15, set for later this month, will only involve DOCSIS 1.0 products, followed by the first 1.1-only wave...