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Light Reading's Cable Next-Gen symposium recap
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Light Reading's Alan Breznick and Jeff Baumgartner recap the highlights from last week's Cable Next-Gen Digital Symposium, which wrapped up Thursday, October 8. The cable aces provide an update on the challenges and opportunities of utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities in cable architectures. Breznick and Baumgartner also discuss progress made on DOCSIS 4.0, momentum around Remote MAC-PHY, different approaches to distributed access architecture and more.
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