Call for Papers
Share your Expertise
Each year TechExpo presents an inspiring content line-up drawing on the unique experiences and perspectives of our community. We invite members to submit papers or presentations to feature in technical sessions, with particular interest in forward-looking technologies and solutions that will help power the industry’s 10G initiative and move its technical foundation forward.
In addition to English submissions, SCTE is also encouraging presentations delivered in Spanish, focusing on Latin American concepts, technology, and innovation.
- Wireline Network Evolution
- Wireless Networks and Convergence with Wireline
- Construction and Network Planning
- Security and Privacy
- Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
- Cloud Services
- Commercial and Business Services
- Operational Transformation and Workforce Learning
- Energy Management and Sustainability
Submissions have now closed for Call for Papers 2024. Notifications will be sent out on May 3, 2024.
Powered by:
Topics
Any topic addressing broadband industry technical, engineering, and business issues will be considered but abstracts on the key topics outlined will be given priority. Submitted papers will be either technical papers covering new and emerging technologies, or operational practices that provide field guidance.
Abstracts addressing a nearer-term solution (within the next three years) will be given priority.
Wireline Network Evolution
- Strategies and challenges for broadband build-out in the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD), Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) and other government programs
- Network evolution and planning
- DOCSIS® 4.0 deployment
- Convergence of last-mile technologies
- Low latency
- 10G connectivity in multiple dwelling units (MDUs) and campus networks
- Fiber to the home (FTTH) and passive optical networks (PON)
- Regional and backbone network design and performance to support the evolving access networks
- MPLS and segment routing optimization and performance
- Latest trends in routed optical networking
Wireless Networks and Convergence with Wireline
- Convergence
- O-RAN planning and deployment strategies; lessons learned from CBRS trials and deployments
- Performance differences between DOCSIS® networks & 5G fixed wireless access
- Performance differences between DOCSIS® networks & Starlink
- RF Spectrum
- 5G fixed wireless access deployment models and use cases
- Fixed wireless access as an opportunity vs. a competitive threat
- Does mobile make economic sense for smaller providers
- Private wireless monetization in vertical industries
- Wireless failover to a wired network
- Network slicing and implications and applications within next generation wireless and wireline networks
- Applicability of 5G advanced features such as AI/ML, eXtended reality, metaverse, ambient IoT, and sensing
- Residential networks
- Wi-Fi
- Development of deterministic wireless applications; is low latency Wi-Fi gaming and mixed reality services to the home a business opportunity or table stakes for Wi-Fi performance
Construction and Network Planning
- Adopting technologies such as LiDAR and drones to support network planning, design and construction
- New tools and techniques being deployed and new standards for fiber construction from long haul backbone all the way to the drop
- Learning from trends, tools, techniques, and innovations in international fiber construction
- Operational best practices for construction
Security and Privacy
- Managing the complex security realm
- Network and security convergence
- Risk quantification
- Security first architectures
- Security compliance management
- Evolution of cryptography and its impact
- Security of broadband infrastructure
- Security of AI/ML
- Privacy concerns of broadband services: evolving privacy regulations, technologies to assure compliance, KPIs and market differentiation
- Secure network automation
- IoT networks and multi-ecosystem solutions
- Managing cybersecurity as an enterprise risk issue
- Third party security such as security as a service (SaaS) impacting economics of the ecosystems
- New identity management solutions
- Security for mobile and cable convergence; common approaches to identity management
- Security in customer owned devices; technical, regulatory, and legal challenges to trust management
- Wi-Fi security evolution
Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
- AI/ML techniques to predict network performance and drive network efficiencies
- Discoveries made with streaming telemetry, artificial intelligence, and machine learning
- The journey from “white paper” to realizing value from operationally-focused AI/ML (moving from theory to initiatives/projects)
- Use of automation and AI/ML in network operations
- AI/ML at the network/MAC; node; gateway and connected home; and customer service levels
Cloud Services
- Role of public clouds and private operator clouds in access network and operations
- Choosing the right cloud approach
- Cloud-managed networking
- Network as a service (NaaS) and network as a platform (NaaP)
- Cloud versus edge
- Automating and orchestrating next generation network infrastructures
- Hyperscaling as a broadband operator
- Virtualizing and automating the core network
- How OSS is evolving
- Automation
Commercial And Business Services
- Operator use cases in industrial IoT, connected healthcare, connected remote learning, smart cities and MDU smart communities
- Service convergence for residential, mobile, and business services
- Leveraging and optimizing the network for both residential and business service requirements
- Impact of Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 7, and 5G on the business environment
- The opportunity for small and mid-size business (SMB) mobility
- The present and future of SD-WAN
- Managed business service offerings
Operational Transformation and Workforce Learning
- Telemetry and smart amplifiers for the outside plant
- How network upgrade deployments and maintenance processes would benefit from telemetry visibility of the outside plant
- Re-defining network maintenance business processes (preventive / reactive) with greatly improved visibility to the outside plant conditions
- Automation opportunities, including AI/ML applications leveraging overflooded data lake
- Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM) and Reliability
- The future of work and embracing AI/ML
- Work Force Management enabled by AI/ML
- How AI/ML powers digital transformation and enhances productivity
- Network intelligence
- Tools that drive automation and remote detection
- Alternate ways to train, skill sets needed in an automated world, and expanding training scope and frequency
- Migration and orchestration for big projects and between projects
- New technologies to increase efficiency and improve the customer experience
Energy Management and Sustainability
- Network infrastructure energy management
- Broadband and Wi-Fi consumer premises equipment (CPE) energy management
- Field power supply considerations for a distributed access architecture (DAA) world
- Smart grids and microgrids
- Power reliability and availability
- Power sustainability
- New business opportunities in power and energy for cable operators
- Impacts of cooling technologies on power demands
- Changes in outside plant power consumption for next generation networks
- Emerging trends in alternate energy solutions
- Cloud energy management solutions
- Cable operator and utility company interactivity (Grid Metrics)
- Impact / reality of Carbon Neutral by 20xx
Process
The SCTE TechExpo 2024 Program Committee, chaired by Guy McCormick, SVP Engineering at Cox Communications, and Ronnie Dhaliwal, Vice President, Technology Operations at Liberty Latin America, will review all technical abstracts. Previously published papers and product-specific presentations will not be accepted. The Program Committee will notify selected authors by May 3, 2024. Selected participants will be required to complete and submit an electronic version of their white paper and associated PowerPoint presentation by July 26, 2024.
Additional Information
The Program Committee believes that innovation is powered by diversity. We encourage and support representation and inclusivity of all people. Our Call for Papers reflects our goal to include submissions from across our industry’s diverse expanse of professionals, and we commit to considering all entries equally.
Abstract Submission
Submit your abstract by April 5, 2024.
Enter each submission separately. Each abstract submission is limited to 2,000 characters and should include:
- Technical Paper or Operational Practice’s Title
- Brief Description of Proposed Session Content
- Name of Author/Presenter
- Company
- Mailing Address
- Telephone Number
- E-mail Address
Key Dates
- Call for Papers Closes April 5, 2024
- Notification to Authors May 3, 2024
- Submission of Materials July 26, 2024
