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SCTE HIGHLIGHTS NEW CABLE CHALLENGES IN ITS SPRING LECTURE MEETING
The advent of IPTV, VoIP and peer-to-peer have heralded many new challenges for the cable industry. The European cable industry is pushing ahead with higher-speed broadband, Voice over IP, VOD, TV-on-demand, PVR and HDTV. 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.
These, and many other topics, will be covered in the 2009 Spring Lecture Meeting organised by SCTE, The Society for Broadband Professionals, on 29 April 2009. Held at the IET in Savoy Place (London), the event ‘Moving Cable Forward’ will highlight challenges and offer solutions to some of the issues facing cable engineers and manufacturers today.
Speakers and presentations at the Spring Lecture Meeting include:-
“Utilising Deep Packet Inspection and Statistical Analysis to Drive Next Generation Traffic Management Policies” – Neil Meikle (Principal Consultant, Detica)
“Addressing the Requirement for an Increase in Personalised Bandwidth” - David Keeley (Chief Technology Officer, Motorola)
“Monitoring Multiple Transport Technologies in Regional Digital Cable Headends” – Simon J Frostad (Chairman, Bridge Technology)
“Upstream RF Troubleshooting Techniques to Identify and Quantify Linear and/or Non Linear Distortions in US Transmissions” – Bernard Cadieux (International Business Development, Sunrise Telecom Inc.)
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.