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$HLIT (~$1.65B) controls more than 95% of the software that every major US cable company needs to upgrade their network for the AI era.
Every time you stream, video call, or ask an AI app a question, that data runs through a cable line owned by Comcast, Charter, or Cox. Upstream traffic is now growing 21.7% a year and the old cable standard cannot keep up.
The fix is called DOCSIS 4.0. It takes cable from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps with much faster upload speeds. Every Tier-1 operator is being forced to upgrade or lose subscribers to fiber.
There is only one company that sells the software to run those upgraded networks at scale. HLIT. Comcast, Charter, Cox, and Altice all run its cOS platform. 150 customers and 45.7M cable modems live on it today.
Charter alone has committed $5.5B to this upgrade through 2027. Every single node they deploy requires an HLIT license.
Q1 revenue grew 43% YoY and beat the top of guidance by 16%. Backlog hit $582M, up 87% YoY and 1.2x full year revenue guidance. The biggest cable upgrade cycle in history is already booked.
The chips and the lasers get all the attention. The toll booth between AI demand and your living room is hiding in plain sight.
Full deep dive in the comments.
$HLIT $CMCSA $CHTR $CALX

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