CableLabs

{{Short description|Trade association for cable operators}}

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{{Infobox company

| name = Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.

| logo = Cable Labs logo.svg

| logo_alt = The Cable Labs logo, simple black text on a light background

| trade_name = CableLabs

| type = Nonprofit corporation

| industry = Research and development

| founded = 1988

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| hq_location_city = Louisville, Colorado

| hq_location_country = United States

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| key_people = Phil McKinney, President & CEO
John C. Malone, President Emeritus

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| website = {{Official URL}}

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Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (CableLabs) is a nonprofit corporation promoting innovation as a research and development lab founded in 1988 by American cable operators. System operators from around the world are eligible to be members.{{Citation needed|date=October 2022}}

The DOCSIS standard for cable Internet access was originally developed by CableLabs and contributing companies, including Arris, BigBand Networks, Broadcom, Cisco, Comcast, Conexant, Correlant, Cox, Harmonic, Intel, Motorola, Netgear, Terayon, Time Warner Cable, and Texas Instruments.{{cite web |title=Five Modem Makers' Systems Considered for Cable Data Specifications |url=http://www.cablelabs.com/news/pr/1996/1996_09_23.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021021205140/http://www.cablelabs.com/news/pr/1996/1996_09_23.html |website=CableLabs.com |publisher=CableLabs |date=September 23, 1996 |archive-date=October 21, 2002 |access-date=November 24, 2021 }}{{cite web |title=CableLabs Selects Broadcom and Terayon to Author Advanced Modem Technology Proposals |url=https://www.cablelabs.com/news/pr/1998/1998_11_13.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131011052940/http://www.cablelabs.com/news/pr/1998/1998_11_13.html |website=CableLabs.com |publisher=CableLabs |date=November 13, 1998 |archive-date=October 11, 2013 |access-date=November 24, 2021 }}{{cite web |title=Data-over-Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) |url=https://community.cisco.com/t5/networking-documents/docsis/ta-p/3115673 |website=Community.Cisco.com |publisher=Cisco Systems |date=March 1, 2019 |access-date=November 24, 2021 }}

In 2013, CableLabs absorbed its European equivalent, Cable Europe Labs.{{Cite web |last=Breznick |first=Alan |date=2013-08-13 |title=CableLabs Goes Global |url=https://www.lightreading.com/cable-technology/cablelabs-goes-global |access-date=2024-10-29 |website=Light Reading}}