SCTE/ISBE

PNM and Associated Standards

By Chris Bastian — Network architectures and operations have become more complex in the past few decades. When I began working in telecommunications in the mid-1980s, telecom networks were still using circuit switches such as the 5ESS and DMS-100.

Read More

Presenting the Perfect Cable Connection

By Jana Henthorn – If you visit The Cable Center — and we hope you do — there’s a must-see exhibit that’s essential to experience. It’s the Edward D. Breen Technical Archives, a stroll-and-enjoy amalgamation of everything from early-era “coffee can” amplifiers to glowing vacuum tubes

Read More

Principles for Interoperability in the IoT

By Clarke Stevens — A big problem with the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) is the number of standards and proprietary systems. Apple, Google and Amazon each have proprietary approaches. IoT-related standards are available from IEEE, IETF, W3C, ISO/IEC and virtually every other standards body. Even organizations trying to comply with standards are forced to choose between incompatible options.

Read More

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

CableLabs and SCTE•ISBE: Partners in Cable Technology

By Phil McKinney — At CableLabs, we develop and specify technology that allows the cable industry to support the growing requirements of broadband access. Through our 60-member companies around the world, partnerships with top-tier universities and a collaborative ecosystem inside and outside the cable industry, we are able to create global impact.

Read More

Bottom Line: Experiential Learning Works

By Martha Soehren — SCTE•ISBE Cable-Tec Expo is still months away, but here’s one topic that will be on the agenda: how learning paradigms that seamlessly combine education with direct experience increasingly are delivering business results, enabling companies like Comcast to improve the performance and confidence level of newly hired field professionals, while also contributing to improved retention.

Read More

Managing Through Change and Integration at Charter

By Tom Adams — Since the closing of the transactions with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks in May of 2016, we have been focused on successfully integrating our three legacy entities into a single unified company, with a centralized, well-proven operating approach that, under Tom Rutledge’s leadership, brought legacy Charter through a significant and successful transformation.

Read More