By Elad Nafshi and Tom Monaghan – Every day, people across the United States rely on the networks we build, operate, and protect. They rely on us when they call 911, when they check into a hospital, when they run a business, when they attend school, and…
By Ken Klaer – As we begin a new year, the SCTE Foundation is doubling down on what matters most: investing in people. The broadband industry is evolving at an extraordinary pace, and the need for strong technical talent, clear pathwa…
By Kimberly Maki – The conversation was no longer centered on speed as the primary indicator of progress. What I heard was an invitation to think differently about how networks will behave. The sense that we are moving into an era defined…
By Marion Nowosatko – Broadband networks are the backbone of today’s digital economy, supporting streaming, cloud computing, telemedicine, and remote education. While these networks have existed for decades, the technologies powering them ha…
By Steven Nesbitt – As operators race to modernize broadband networks for DOCSIS® 4.0, IP convergence, and fiber-deep expansion, the headend has become both the backbone and the bottleneck of network evolution. The challenge is no longer s…
By Brady Volpe – Experts from Comcast, CableLabs, Technetix, and OpenVault unpack how PNM and PMA are rewriting cable’s reliability playbook. For more than three decades working in cable technology, I’ve watched our industry transform f…
By Ron Hranac – A property of a transmission line such as coaxial cable, called characteristic impedance, Zc (sometimes Z0), is equal to the ratio of voltage E to current I in a traveling wave propagating along that transmission line:…
By Jeff Finkelstein – Technological progress has always bred both awe and anxiety. Innovation promises efficiency, prosperity, and new opportunities. Yet the speed of modern innovation has outstripped the human capacity to fully absorb, inte…
By Steven Harris – HDCs are built specifically for OSP conditions defined by Telcordia and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards such as GR-3120, GR-3171, GR-326, and IEC 61753. While they maintain familiar optical for…
By Hon. Cory Gardner – Today, those same airwaves—our nation’s spectrum—are at the heart of a global competition that will define whether the U.S. leads the next era of technological innovation or cedes the future to China. Spectrum used to b…
By Diane Christman – The Cable Center was founded to preserve and steward the stories of pioneers who wired the unconnected by visualizing what was possible long before broadband or streaming existed. Those stories are not artifacts of the…
By Matt Polka – Put simply, Pioneers forge the threads of a legacy that continue to shape our future. At the 2025 banquet this past September, nearly 600 guests filled the historic Mayflower Hotel ballroom in Washington, D.C., to welco…
By Louis A. Borrelli, Jr. – Your customers don’t think in terms of separate services anymore. They want to stay connected, at home, on the go, everywhere in between. They want their Internet, Wi-Fi, and mobile service to work seamlessly, ideally f…
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By Chris Topazi – When I joined Scientific Atlanta in 1999, I could not have envisioned the growth and development of cable telecommunications that I would witness and in which I would play a part. Our team was working on development of…
By Grant Spellmeyer – At America’s Communications Association (ACA Connects), “We’re Building!” Every day, our 500 members, rooted in hometowns and rural communities across all 50 states, are planning new builds, digging trenches, climbing p…
By Gary Bolton – AT&T, which first reported the beneficial synergies of fiber with mobile earlier this year, had topped its broadband subscriber estimates when it provided its 3Q financial report at the end of October 2025. More than 41…
By Bob Voss – Many large warehouses, arenas, and transit hubs rely on devices such as wireless access points, security cameras, 5G radios, and building automation systems. Sometimes, these devices need to be located beyond the 100-me…
By Carla Shearer – I shared SCTelcom’s story during a Fireside Chat at the Broadband Nation Expo, produced with the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). It was my first opportunity to meet Kimberly Maki, who moderated our discus…
By Allen Maharaj – Automation: At its core, automation is about executing predefined tasks without human intervention. There’s no learning, adapting, or context-awareness, just repeatable workflows driven by logic and rules.
