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The workshop sessions presented at Cable-Tec Expo were grouped into 5 tracks, designed to help you identify the workshops most pertinent to your job function.
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Business Voice—What It Is and What It Takes to Launch It
Business services, both voice and data, represent a significant revenue opportunity for cable operators, particularly in the traditionally underserved Small and Medium Business (SMB) market. This workshop will focus on providing an architectural and technical overview of business voice services, as well as lessons learned in real-world deployments of voice services to SMBs.
Christopher P. Gugger, Senior Director, Market Development, Cedar Point Communications
Glenn Russell, Director, Business Services and David Hancock, Project Director, Signaling Architectures, CableLabs®
Carrier Ethernet: Cellular Backhaul and Beyond
The increasing demand for cellular backhaul services is well documented, and many operators are already providing this service to wireless operators. However, there is an opportunity to leverage this investment and the lessons learned from carrier–grade Ethernet build–outs to other previously difficult verticals. Time Warner Cable is one operator that has performed pioneering work in this space. A key component for providing carrier–grade Ethernet is the need for end–to–end monitoring and testing to ensure SLA compliance. Traditional Ethernet testing processes look somewhat different when placed in an HFC environment, and a thorough understanding of the implications is critical to long–term success. This workshop will provide valuable details on how to capture new business services utilizing available technology.
Thomas J. Staniec, AGT - Vice President, Transport Network Engineering, Time Warner Cable
Jay Stewart, Director, Marketing Ethernet Services, JDSU
Expanding Residential OSS Systems to Support Business Services
Business services offer the MSO many new revenue opportunities. In many cases, new business services leverage existing network and service infrastructures. This workshop will explore how MSOs can enhance their current operational systems to meet the demands of business services.
Rick Mallon, Vice President, Product Management, Sigma Systems
Michael Pritz, OPR Consulting Practice Manager, JDSU
Premises-Based Business Services
New services to certain businesses require installation of specialized equipment at the customer's location. The migration to digital video is not limited to the residential market. Hospitality purveyors require a solution for bulk decryption and distribution of HD video. Such a network could be used to provide Digital Video and On-Demand services to a new set of customers. Additionally, wireless LANs have become a standard amenity in many businesses, both in hospitality and otherwise. While both of these services traditionally may have come from separate providers, cable has an opportunity to serve both.
Jeffrey R. Huppertz, President & CEO, Drake
Dave Park, Vice President, Product Marketing, BelAir Networks
Servicing the Mobile Backhaul Explosion
The explosion in mobile bandwidth has created a commensurate need for facilities to carry signals from the mobile operator's field equipment to the mobile operator's switching equipment. In addition, mobile operators will be transitioning from TDM-based networks to Ethernet-based ones. This workshop will examine some of the techniques available to help mobile operators use cable networks to transport their services.
Steve Dyck, Director, Mobile Backhaul Solutions, Alcatel-Lucent
Dr. Nagesh Nandiraju, Senior Systems Engineer, Motorola
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Advanced Advertising—Making It a Reality
Cable operators are collaborating to create a national stewardship and fulfillment platform for interactive applications and addressable advertising. This platform feeds information directly into SCTE 130-compliant systems for dynamic ad placement. However, there is a need to also accommodate the existing deployment of SCTE 30/35 advertising systems. The use of digital overlays can enable operators to deliver new, localized, and addressable services for both linear programming and on-demand content through the capabilities of the combined platforms.
Frank Sandoval, Principle Architect, CableLabs®
Adam S. Tom, Co-founder and Executive Vice President, RGB Networks and Bruce Dilger, Vice President R&D, Chief Architect, Advanced Advertising Systems, OpenTV
Delivering Quality to Enhance the Customer Experience
Up to now, we have won the customer by virtue of our superior network architecture. In the future, if we wish retain them and continue to win in the market, we will have to deliver a superior customer experience. This begins with the quality of the products, but monitoring and managing the essential components of quality of the video experience are essential for continued growth and customer satisfaction.
Dave Higgins, Vice President, Quality Assurance, Comcast Media Center
Santhana Krishnamachari, Vice President, Engineering, Digital Video Systems, ARRIS
How to Get Tru2way™ Going and Keep it Going
Cable operators will continue to roll out tru2way™ and ETV platforms to more than 20 million set-top boxes with interactive capabilities slated for deployment by the end of 2009. Planning for both technology and operational elements needs to be considered for the successful rollout of tru2way. What better way to do this than to hear from operators who have already completed pilots and learned some important lessons? In addition, engineers need a systematic method of identifying areas that require diagnostic feedback for those who must support the systems. One such existing method is Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA). Utilizing this approach, one operator was able to build a checklist of fault conditions and possible remedies; a channel-based diagnostic application; an installer application; and enhanced host diagnostics that helped decrease call volume, increase up time, and increase call center personnel retention.
Albert Straub, Director, Software Engineering, Time Warner Cable
Vikram Nagarajan, Systems Engineer, Cox Communications Inc.
Interactive TV—Application Development Guidelines and Getting EBIF onto Legacy Set-top Boxes
With the introduction of EBIF and tru2way™, developers from anywhere are able to build applications to run on set-top boxes. A set of guidelines to develop, host, and deploy well-behaved interactive TV applications is essential to ensure performance as expected and customer quality of experience. Further, the ability to deploy not only on current generation, tru2way devices but also on legacy boxes is desirable. Deployment of these services on legacy boxes has been done by one operator who will share lessons learned.
Matt Osminer, Director, Software Engineering, Time Warner Cable
Frank Sandoval, Principle Architect, CableLabs®
Video Everywhere
Consumers are demanding that they have access on their PCs and cell phones to video content traditionally only available through their televisions. At the same time, they want access to web content on their televisions. MSOs face challenges in delivering content across multiple platforms, such as a consistent search mechanism, while ensuring that customer entitlements are enforced.
Jim Brandt, Lead Developer, Entitlements, Synacor Inc.
Jeremy Edmonds, Director, Product Management, ActiveVideo Networks, Inc.
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Enabling 4As—Any Content, Any Device, Any Place, and Any Time
We have all seen the cool commercials of our customers experiencing the ultimate convenience of 4As. In a marketplace where our customers' expectations continue to increase fueled by relentless competition from everywhere, we are challenged to "connect our customers in an easy and simple manner." At the core, there is an assumption that home networking is a "given." Learn and explore what the technical and operational implications are to make this real.
Clarke Stevens, Principal Architect, CableLabs®
Richard I. Baker, Product Manager, Motorola
Fiber To The Home—How Do We Find Our Way Home?
The battle for the next-generation subscriber access network is under way. These two sessions will describe the competing alternatives for getting Fiber to the Home. Do we slowly migrate or jump directly to the end solution?
David Foote, CTO, Hitachi
Harold Roberts, Systems Engineer and Architect II, Calix
Leveraging the Optical Network for Services Growth
This workshop will discuss Cox's next-generation architecture for deploying business services, utilizing the MSO's existing fiber network. It also will describe the requirement and limitations of current hubs to support all existing and planned equipment upgrades and why solutions like Cox's will be needed.
R. Wayne Ogozaly, Technical Lead Engineer, Video Architect, Cisco Systems
Mark Pellegri, Manager, Transport Networks, Cox Communications Inc.
The Heart of the Cable Network: Migrating from HFC to FTTH If and When
This workshop will look at the engineering and cost implications of the migration of the HFC network to FTTH if and when it makes sense. Real-world examples will be used to illustrate what operators are doing today.
Fred Slowik, Director, Systems Marketing, Motorola Connected Home Solutions
Timothy J. Brophy Ph.D., Director, Network Architectures, Cisco Systems
Video over IP: Engineering IP Video
IP-based video solutions have a lot of potential for flexible service delivery and integrated services. But how will these services be engineered? What will it take to make IP video work at scale?
John Ulm, Fellow of Technical Staff, Motorola
Robert Howald, CTO Office, Motorola Home & Networks Mobility
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Clearing the IPv4 to IPv6 Hurdles with Migration Planning
At some point, the limited address space in Internet Protocol version 4 currently in use will become depleted. Most predict that this will occur by 2011, thus
prompting the move to IPv6. Some operators are already experiencing this limitation, and the pressure is on to move now rather than later. The impact of the transition to IPv6 is certainly going to be felt in terminating devices but also in data centers and the services operating on the network. A clear migration plan is a must for ensuring the successful transition, and during the transition, there will be a need to operate dual stacks to handle both new and legacy devices and services.
Lee Howard, Director, Technology Development, Time Warner Cable
Chris Donley, Project Director, Network Protocols, CableLabs® and John Jason Brzozowski, Chief IPv6 Architect and Principal Engineer, Comcast
DOCSIS ® BW Requirements: Past, Present & Future
In support of the increase in HSD bandwidth demand, typically cable MSOs are adding more than 40 percent downstream capacity per year. In the last couple of years,
DOCSIS® 3.0 and channel bonding have been adopted by many MSOs and are being rolled out in many systems. Although the DOCSIS 3.0 infrastructure has been put in place, DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems haven't been widely deployed. This session will discuss the advantage of DOCSIS 3.0 infrastructure as a cost-effective solution for downstream bandwidth expansion supporting legacy cable modems while also supporting the introduction of DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems. DOCSIS 3.0 and modular CMTS will be discussed as scalable solutions, avoiding the need to re-engineer the hubs on every downstream expansion. While DOCSIS 3.0 platforms are being rolled out, user demand for Video over IP is increasing. It is questioned whether those new platforms can scale and support the high-bandwidth video services and whether they can accommodate the system requirements associated with video delivery such as network latency, jitter, and packet drop. Those questions will be examined in depth.
Doug Jones, Chief Architect, BigBand Networks
Jeffrey Finkelstein, Director, Network Architecture, Cox Communications Inc.
Getting More Bang per Digital MHz
Going all-digital brings some well-known efficiencies. This session will explore digital technologies and tools such as advanced codecs that enable more information transmission within each megahertz of bandwidth. How will these tools make the all-digital network even more efficient, and how can they best be introduced into the infrastructure?
John Roy, Vice President, Cable Operations and Engineering, Comcast Media Center
Robert Kidd, Manager, Engineering, Cisco Systems
Monitoring and Managing a DOCSIS® 3.0 Network
With the introduction of DOCSIS® 3.0 come different monitoring and management capabilities. There is a need for OSS and workforce tools to support and monitor these D3.0 devices. This session will explore ways of collecting statistics and techniques for using that information to make better decisions on network resource allocation and performance.
Jeffrey Finkelstein Director, Network Architecture, Cox Communications Inc.
Rohini Ramana Reddy Telukutla, Assurance Solutions Architect, ARRIS
Moving up the Value Chain of OSS/BSS
As our networks gain greater scale, become more complex, and become more software defined, effective OSS and BSS are essential for the ongoing deployment, management and maintenance, and restoration of services. This session looks at architectural approaches to enhancing the role of OSS and BSS in the evolving network.
Scott Sumner, Vice President, Product Management, Accedian Networks
Edward Heffernan, NSS Architect, Rogers Cable Inc.
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Advanced Advertising—Migration Paths
Ad insertion on both analog and digital channels is an important revenue stream for cable operators. While targeted, personalized advertising offers an enhanced value to consumers, advertisers as well as additional revenue to operators, the previous model cannot be immediately abandoned. Developing migration paths from the traditional zone-based advertising models that we know today to the targeted model of tomorrow can help to protect both revenue and investment as the transition occurs. Discover potential tools and technical considerations that can assist with this migration.
Adam LaRose, Vice President, Technology and Operations, Comcast Spotlight
Yaron Raz, Director, Video Solutions Marketing, BigBand Networks
Executive-Level GIS Technology Overview
In an increasingly competitive market, cable companies are looking for better ways to retain customers, utilize existing network to win new business, and deliver new services over rapidly evolving technology. In pursuing these goals, many MSOs are investing heavily in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to provide them with a consolidated view of their network in relation to current and potential customers.
Although often asked to sign off on budgets for GIS programs, MSO executive-level management professionals often possess only a basic understanding of GIS and do not fully understand how spatial technologies can drive real business value.
Come and join us to learn more about how MSOs are utilizing GIS technology to gain an edge over the competition. Through a series of focused case studies, we will explore the value GIS already is delivering for digital phone, marketing, commercial services, franchise management, and more.
Moderator
Keely Rose Buchanan, Manager, Communications, Time Warner Cable
Maintaining the Health and Wellness of the Network
Ensuring the highest possible level of availability and reliability as well as Quality of Service for triple-play services has become a critical differentiator among competing service providers. Service health management, like personal health management, involves both proactive and reactive components. Monitoring the right combination of vital factors ensures that the system is operating at peak performance and also can provide an early warning to impending trouble. And when trouble does strike, it is important to leverage data in order to minimize MTTR and customer impact.
Richard T Berthold, CTO, Proxilliant Systems Corp., and Keith Hayes, Vice President, Network Operations and Engineering Services, Charter Communications
Wilson Lim, Senior Technical Consultant, OSS BroadNet, Inc.
Operational Considerations for DOCSIS® 3.0
The DOCSIS® 3.0 specification provides a powerful set of tools for cable operators. Among the most notable features is the ability to bond channels together to offer higher rate service tiers in both the upstream and the downstream directions. However, these enhancements also bring new considerations for plant set-up and operation, including return path lasers and downstream QAM modulators. Proper understanding of the impact on plant operations leads to a better customer experience and success for the operator.
Vipul Rathod, Engineering Manager, Motorola
Brady Volpe, Director System Engineering and Design Verification, JDSU
Operationalize Going All-Digital
Analog reclamation has been a hot topic of discussion in the cable industry for several years now. This case study will highlight recent progress from production networks that have successfully made the leap. The material will address plant planning considerations, tools to proactively evaluate preparedness, QAM migration strategy, low-cost all-digital adapters, professional wiring and install considerations, self-install, provisioning and service activation, and a snapshot of customer feedback thus far.
Kevin Taylor, Comcast Fellow, and Steven Reynolds, Senior Vice President - Premise Technology, Comcast Cable
Rob Thompson, Senior Systems Engineer, Motorola
The Changing Nature of RF Signals
RF is being changed forever. As we migrate to all-digital HFC networks and the nature of Rf carriers changes from NTSC analog to dense QAM modulation, so must the procedures and processes we use to comply with the rules and maintain plant. This session will discuss the need for new methodologies for plant performance monitoring and characterization.
Ronald J. Hranac, Technical Leader, Cisco Systems and Ray S. Thomas, Principal Engineer, Comcast
David Job, Customer Test Lab Manager, Cisco Systems
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