A Comcast Product Manager Talks What it’s Like to Roll Out a Nationwide Project

Kunle Ekundare

Before Comcast rolls out a new product, such as its recent announcement of its next-generation xFi Advanced Gateway, to hundreds of thousands of users, it’s first worked on, talked about and tested by more than a hundred employees.

Comcast announced the release of the the device — and its capabilities for streamlining the dispersion of Wi-Fi to multiple devices at once — at the beginning of the month at CES, saying it would increase internet speeds, lower latency and up capacity for devices. The gateway comes with xFi, a digital dashboard that customers can use to control things like pausing the Wi-Fi, content filters for children or screen-scheduling time.

The new xFi Advanced Gateway will be available in the coming months to customers who subscribe to Xfinity internet speed tiers of 300 Mbps or faster, the company said.

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