Charter Communications Chairman and CEO Tom Rutledge is set to lead off a lineup of keynote speakers at the SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo 2017 on Wednesday, Oct. 18, in Denver. Rutledge’s remarks will mark the start of the three-day Expo at the city’s Colorado Convention Center venue.
Rutledge, who led the technological and business transformation of Charter and engineered last year’s transactions with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, will reportedly share his views on the future of cable telecommunications and how network innovation will be a significant contributor to business results.
Rutledge is the chairman of NCTA–The Internet & Television Association and serves on the boards of CableLabs and C-SPAN. In 2011, he received NCTA’s Vanguard Award for Distinguished Leadership, the cable industry’s highest honor, and is a member of the Cable Hall of Fame and the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame.
“Tom Rutledge’s vision and his ability to seize opportunities have changed the face of cable telecommunications within the past several years,” Mark Dzuban, president and CEO of SCTE-ISBE, says. “We’re grateful to him for his commitment to share his expertise and his informed view of the industry at a general session that is shaping up as one of the best in the 34-year history of Cable-Tec Expo.”
Level 3 Communications is now offering an SD-WAN solution for enterprise.
Level 3 says its SD-WAN solution provides customers with the ability to create secure private networks over a mix of public and private infrastructure, with site-to-site encryption, regardless of access or backbone method. SD-WAN from Level 3 also reportedly grants centralized management and control to enterprises to steer traffic on an application-by-application basis or by access type, and allows for the connection of disparate sites across a variety of backbone connections. The solution supports multiple access types, including: DSL, cable, LTE, internet, and MPLS.
“The addition of Level 3 SD-WAN solution comes at an important time in the market, as SD-WAN emerges from the early adopter stage and traction builds around it with enterprises seeking to deploy dynamic WAN solutions for network agility and efficiency,” Frost and Sullivan Analyst Roopa Honnachari comments.
Major operators bottomed out in Consumer Reports recent telecom survey, scoring low in categories like value and customer service.
Top operator Comcast was one of the lowest scoring companies, ranking number 27 out of 32 companies covered by the survey. Charter was ahead of or behind Comcast, depending on who was asked. Legacy Charter customers ranked the company at number 24, but new customers coming in from Time Warner Cable put the company at number 28. So who was dead last? That honor went to Mediacom, which beat out Frontier Communications in a race to the bottom.
Consumer Reports said the results were based on responses from more than 210,000 Consumer Reports subscribers who answered the outlet’s Fall Questionnaire. More results can be found here.
