Cable-Tec Expo

Future-Proofing Cable Access Networks

By Marty Glapa — We are wirelessly connected nearly all the time via mobile phones, smart devices, PCs, or smart TVs, terminating on technology-specific wireless access nodes. We are also frequently hardwire connected via devices such as phones, TVs or PCs, through various copper, fiber, or coax technologies terminating on technology-specific wireline access network nodes. And, we are often simultaneously using wireless and wireline services.

Read More

Blockchain Enters the Cable Industry

By Steve Goeringer — Blockchain is one of today’s most discussed and visible technologies. Some technologists consider blockchain to be the most significant technological innovation since the dawn of the Internet. Many researchers have begun to see blockchain applied to Internet of Things (IoT) security, providing better consumer control and transparency of privacy rights and options, private and public sector voting, and more. And yet, to a significant segment of the population, blockchain remains a mystery. What is it? And how can it apply to the cable industry?

Read More

Network Migration Strategies

By Jeff Howe — Cable operators have many options available to augment their existing HFC networks, but no clear path forward. Fortunately, there are several potential evolutionary paths — standalone or in combination — that can be tailored to specific applications.

Read More

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.

Read More

Cable-Tec Expo Recap 2017

By Ron Hranac – During the week of October 16th, some 8800 people made their way to the Colorado Convention Center to attend 2017’s SCTE·ISBE Cable-Tec Expo. The last time Expo was held in Denver was September 2014, and Mother Nature surprised attendees with snow — lots of it.

Read More

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.

Read More

The X-Men of Expo

SCTE•ISBE Cable-Tec Expo has benefited from two of the sharpest minds in the business, program chairs Jim Blackley (Charter) and Terry Cordova (Altice). Cathy Wilson, publisher of Broadband Library, was lucky enough to sit down with these two engineering professionals and find out their thoughts on the upcoming show and the broadband industry.

Read More

Product and Technology Innovation

By Chris Bastian – The Fall Technical Forum at SCTE•ISBE Cable-Tec Expo 2017 promises to be the technical exchange event of the year. We are very excited to team with CableLabs and NCTA — The Internet & Television Association — to plan and offer this event. Planning started early for this forum: Back in March the Expo program committee, comprising more than 20 executives

Read More