Kyle Carruthers

CableLabs’ Kyrio Launches SDN Interoperability Lab SAN JOSE, Calif. — CableLabs’ for-profit subsidiary Kyrio is launching an interoperability lab specifically targeted to testing software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV). The lab will be located inoccupy two both CableLabs’ locations in Louisville, Colorado, and Sunnyvale, California. The interoperability lab, which was announced at the NFV World Congress held here today, will be open to hardware vendors, software vendors and all NFV and /SDN ecosystem partners. CableLabs CEO Phil McKinney saidys that the interoperability lab is being run by CableLabs’ for-profit subsidiary Kyrio in order to attract vendors and service providers that are outside the cable ecosystem. “We are running it under Kyrios so it can be open to anyone,” McKinney saidys. “We want to bring the community together to get this deployed.” Interestingly, CableLabs is also hosting a plugfest at its Louisville, Colorado., headquarters May 9-13 as a way to. The group is hoping to attract SDF vendors and software developers to its headquarters to work on interoperability issues. Earlier this year, CableLabs formed Kyrio by rebrandeding its 3-year-old for-profit spin-off NetworkFX to Kyrio. CableLabs, which is a nonprofit group made up of cable operators around the globe, created Kyrio so it could develop and sell some of itscertain services to other players in the telecom space, actions it would otherwise be barred from as an international nonprofit group of cable operators. So far, Kyrio has mainly focused on things like security and, Wi-Fi testing services, butand offer new services such as security and Wi-Fi testing. iIt has also piloted a Wi-Fi roaming hub targeted at Wi-Fi providers. CableLabs has been working on SDN and NFV since 2012. Specifically, the non-profit has been looking at how to virtualize the Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS). It’s also been exploring the virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE) to that will help cable operators deploy services faster and simplify the home networks. Commented [KC1]: Depending on the source of this quote, it could warrant a SIC rather than a correction.