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Be It Ever So Humble

By Mark Dzuban — Everything old is new again in its time. It wasn’t that long ago when wireless — in the form of the RF technology that powered our early success.

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Big Three Deliver Big at Expo

By Mark Dzuban — When three presidents and CEOs — NCTA’s Michael Powell, CableLabs’ Phil McKinney and I — got together during the Opening General Session of Cable-Tec Expo in October, the conversation understandably zigged and zagged

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Big Data, Big Plans to Drive Industry Growth

By Mark Dzuban — Now that spring and summer finally have arrived, I can tell you that what warmed my heart through a long winter was the latest run of good news for our organization: a pivotal success for SCTE•ISBE Cable-Tec Expo®, the industry’s leading trade event; an overwhelmingly positive review from cable’s Organization Review Committee; and strong support — dare I use the word ‘endorsements?’ — by some of the industry’s most important figures.

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Innovation Began and Still Begins Here

By Mark Duzban – For the nearly half a century that SCTE — now SCTE•ISBE — has been a part of the cable ecosystem, we’ve been helping the snowballs of cable innovation roll downhill. As the industry’s applied science arm, we’ve been working hard to help the cable industry workforce be better, smarter and — of course — faster when it comes to bringing new services to consumers.

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The Discovery of ‘Dzubanium’

By Mark Duzban – As for Dzubanium, it was “discovered” when my father was working on backpack communications for the space program. While experimenting with a new sheet metal alloy as a lightweight, conductive platform, he found that gravitational properties would change based on the “Hall Effect” testing they conducted for electrical conductivity and magnetic properties.

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