CableLabs Adrenaline stalled by lockdowns despite open source boost

CableLabs, the R&D arm of the US cable industry, presented a few updates on the group’s Adrenaline virtualization project during day one of the virtual Cable Next-Gen Europe event this week. A mixed bag is how we’d describe Adrenaline’s progress some 18 months after work began, with lab-based developments chugging along nicely after open sourcing the technology earlier this year, while cable operator deployments face delays of an unknown timeframe due to pandemic-related restrictions. CableLabs CTO & SVP Belal Hamzeh set the scene for the event. “Today we look at the HFC network as a connectivity platform, to carry data from point A to point B. For us to evolve and support emerging applications, a different perspective is required, we…