By Maria Popo – To support our rapidly evolving industry, SCTE has begun progressing toward the alignment of workforce development with industry standards. Building an ecosystem that supports the technical talent pipeline
By Bill Warga – As I reflect on my years in this industry, I am continually inspired by the resilience and strength of the people I’ve had the privilege to work with. My current industry roles have given me insight into the heartbreaking stories from field operations teams across the country in response to the recent hurricanes and ongoing wildfires.
By Stephen Gariepy – Fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) deployment in brownfield multi-dwelling units (MDUs) can be a risky venture for broadband service providers (BSPs).
By Tim Cooke and Jon White – ILS is a dynamic process where power loads are strategically reduced in order to prioritize an operator’s most essential operations. Critical components in communications networks may include core network switches, routers, fiber optic systems and more.
By Brady Volpe – Read how DOCSIS 3.1 has changed PNM!
By Ron Hranac – Ours is an industry rich in technology, dating back to the first community antenna television (CATV) systems of the late 1940s to today’s hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks.
By Jeff Finkelstein – The cable industry has been hearing about the magical mystical virtual CMTS for the past 14 years or so. The transformation of the CMTS from a monolithic to virtualized architecture has been in progress for the past ~10 years.
By Steve Harris – Private broadband operators are making historic investments in broadband infrastructure around the globe, driving a surge in fiber optic deployments and next-generation access networks to expand connectivity and enhance digital services.
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By The PHANTOM – This time I write about something I’ve never experienced: genius. My favorite saying is by Thomas Edison, “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” Albert Einstein said the same thing in different words, “Genius is 1 percent talent and 99 percent hard work.”
By Chris Topazi – As many operators are moving toward DOCSIS 4.0-capable network upgrades, much of the industry is migrating toward more intelligence deeper in the network. Continuing the trend from distributed access architectures (DAAs) using remote PHY, active network elements are becoming a vital means of collecting metrics
By Esteban Sandion and Diana Linton – Machine learning techniques can also be used to identify RF signal impairments and develop automated solutions for intelligent network applications to detect and resolve signal issues.
