SCTE LAUNCHES NEW BALKANS LECTURE MEETING

SCTE, the Society for Broadband Professionals, is launching a new series of its popular broadband lecture meetings in the Balkans region. The first Balkan lecture meeting, in conjunction with the SCTE’s Balkans training partner, HM ConsultLLC, will take place on 1 October 2009 at Vermicë – Prizren (Kosovo) with a theme of ‘Taming Digital Networks’.

Today’s cable professional needs to be aware of a range of different issues such as standards, installation, distribution, cost, service differentiation and network monitoring challenges. SCTE lecture meetings offer the opportunity to learn about the latest broadband technical developments, network with technical broadband professionals and interact with speakers.

SCTE is a highly regarded and well known broadband training organisation in the Balkans. The SCTE 2009 Balkan Broadband conference was supported and endorsed by the Kosovo Ministry of Telecommunications and attended by the Deputy Minister of Post-Telecommunications.

Speakers and presentations at the Balkans Lecture Meeting include:-

"From Hybrid to Convergence"
- Ivan Verbesselt, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Nagravision
“The Importance of CENELEC Standardisation”
- Dr Roger Blakeway, President, SCTE
“Network Enhancement using Switchable Tap Technology”
- Keith Mothersdale, CTO, Technetix Group Ltd.
“IP Video over DOCSIS3.0 Studies – Transition from DVB-C into all-IP Access”
- Ron Visser, Systems Engineer, Arris Group BV
“Network Documentation in the Digital Age”
- Diarmuid Kelly, Director, International Sales, AND Solutions GmbH
“GPON - Technology, Applications and Evolution”
- Hans Slabbink, Business Development, Alcatel-Lucent

You can view the full lecture meeting programme/brochure here. Please see www.scte-event.eu for further details of the event.

The SCTE stages lecture meetings four times per year at the IET in London and through its Benelux Group at selected European venues (including IBC this year). Founded in 1945, the SCTE is a Learned Society and non-profit making organisation whose aim is to raise the standard of broadband engineering in the telecommunications industry.