The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) is actively recruiting abstracts for next year’s Cable-Tec Expo in New Orleans.
The deadline for abstract submissions, which will be reviewed by the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo2015 Program Committee that’s chaired by Liberty Global CTO and EVP Balan Nair, is Feb. 17.
The SCTE is targeting key areas for the next edition of Expo and the abstract submissions need to address those technologies. Another requirement from the SCTE is that all of the sessions be interactive and include case studies whenever possible. The key subject areas for SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2015 are:
• Business-to-Business—Improving cable operators’ revenue and offerings in current and next-generation business class services, including SDN/NFV; cloud-based services; “as-a-service” models; traffic engineering, SLAs and business continuity planning; and hospitality services and standards.
• Wireless Services—Wireless drop technologies; Wi-Fi coverage in the home; Wi-Fi extension; maintaining customer experience; Wi-Fi First robustness requirements and operational practices; LTE interference elimination; leveraging white spaces in the USA; and operational practices for Wi-Fi hotspot deployment in congested areas or spectrum.
• Wireline Access—Transition planning and operational issues related to DOCSIS3.1; transition plans for remote PHY and remote MAC/PHY; deployment and troubleshooting of fiber-deep and FTTH; moving the upstream/downstream split point; just-in-time training delivery; improving the number of military veterans in the workforce; and operational practices and standards requirements related to the Energy 2020 program.
• Next-Generation Services—Next-generation services that leverage all-IP or cloud architectures as well as apps and the vibrant app environment, including: DCAS/DRM for next-gen rights management; advanced advertising; deployment, operational practices and cost-avoidance strategies for continuing toward all-IP networks; set-top client evolution; operational practices for TVE to 4K TV; IoT and its applicability to cable; CDN management and orchestration practices; cyber security; RDK and beyond; and CPE virtualization.
SCTE is providing additional details on its abstract submission guidelines online. SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2015n is slated for Oct. 13-16 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.