When you’re zipping down the highway with the top down and the wind in your face, the future sure arrives in a hurry. It seems like only yesterday that we were reflecting on 2014 and eyeing the transformation SCTE intended to make in the year ahead. As the mileposts have rushed by in the intervening […]
What’s New at Cable-Tec Expo 2015
If there’s one thing you need to be prepared for at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo this year, it’s that nothing can prepare you for the new features and elements packed into our engineering show of the year. The topics, the programs and the scope of the event are evolving rapidly to keep pace with the fast-changing […]
Engineering-Wise: Re-engineered learning
Some of the most important lessons being taught at SCTE these days have nothing to do with video engineering or network operations or even – I can only bring myself to say this once – our landmark Energy 2020 program, but rather with the process of learning itself. Learning, of course, has been a central […]
Engineering-wise: Unknown unknowns
Here’s a different way to begin a column about SCTE Cable-Tec Expo: Let’s talk about some of the things that could go wrong. No, I’m not trying to take a “glass half-empty” approach to Expo. I can assure you that our staff has taken every precaution to ensure that this year’s event in Atlanta – […]
Engineering-Wise – Putting lessons learned to work
I will see you in Orlando! You have to work pretty hard to make a connection between yard work and SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, but that’s what I was doing this summer. Shawn and I moved into a new – more on that in a minute – home earlier this year, and the last several months […]
Engineering-Wise – By the people, for the people
Networks are designed by people. We spend a lot of time in this column talking about the products, the solutions and the innovations that will move cable forward. We’ve discussed standards, energy management, capacity management, and other issues and approaches that are helping cable to maintain its competitive edge. What I’d like to speak about […]