CableLabs: Broadband Heading Toward 'Adaptive Era' Networks
Broadband is moving toward an "adaptive era" of networks that self-configure and predictive algorithms that anticipate events and ensure uninterrupted service, CableLabs wrote Tuesday. The necessary adaptive era infrastructure is in its early stages, but there are innovations that already…
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incorporate adaptive elements, it said. For example, automated profile management changes detect problems in networks and shift traffic to different frequency ranges, minimizing disruptions. In addition, networks are equipped with sensors and algorithms, which detect environmental events, such as seismic activity or nearby construction, and then alert first responders or act to avoid outages, it said.