As the cable industry pushes toward multi-gigabit speeds, performance delivered inside the home will become just as important as what is delivered to the home.
That emerging requirement is the primary focus of a new open source project at CableLabs called “Dual Channel WiFi” that has the ability to allocate dedicated channels for specific applications or traffic types that require lots of bandwidth or super-low latencies, such as streaming video, online gaming and virtual reality and augmented reality services.