SCTE® LiveLearning Webinars™ 2023 Schedule

SCTE LiveLearning Webinars 2023 Schedule

Winning with Wi-Fi 6 & Beyond
Date: 1/19/23
With the surging growth of connected devices, explosive consumer demand for more bandwidth and mounting congestion on the home Wi-Fi network, cable operators have the chance to play a bigger role in managing today's smart homes by upgrading to Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 7 and beyond. How can operators leverage the next-gen Wi-Fi specs to craft and support promising new smart-home services and boost their ARPU? And how can they overcome challenging home networking issues by deploying the new specs? In this webinar, we will discuss the promise of the new Wi-Fi specs to boost home broadband, support new services and generate fresh revenues, as well as the technical, operational and integration hurdles that the new specs raise.
Sponsors:
SCTE Speaker: Paul Rodrigues

Getting the Edge on Edge Computing
Date: 2/16/23
There are few things hotter in today’s tech world than edge computing, as service providers seek to bring powerful internet functionality to users at the very tip of their networks. As a result, cable operators and tech vendors are fervently exploring edge computing’s potential as they aim to develop and deliver such next-gen, low-latency connectivity services as augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR), cloud gaming, holographic video, light-field displays, smart homes, 5G mobile, autonomous vehicles, healthcare sensors, home surveillance and facial recognition, among others. Where does cable stand in its pursuit of the edge? What challenges must still be overcome? This session will examine cable's emerging edge compute strategy.
Sponsors:
SCTE Speaker: Bob Wald

Cable Goes Green
Date: 3/23/23
From service vehicles to set-top boxes to cable modems to cables and connectors and other gear, cable operators face huge challenges in managing all their hard assets in an energy-efficient manner. But, in a charge led by SCTE, CableLabs and several major MSOs, operators are now making real strides. What steps are cablecos taking to make their fleets and equipment more sustainable? Where have they made the most progress so far? What hurdles still remain? In this webinar, we will tackle these questions and more as we look at how the industry is pursuing greener networks to slash energy consumption, reduce its carbon footprint and build a more sustainable future.
Sponsors:
SCTE Speaker: Derek DiGiacomo

Getting A Fix on Fixed Wireless
Date: 4/20/23
As cable operators and rival providers scramble to deploy mobile services throughout the U.S. and Canada, fixed-wireless access (FWA) is rapidly becoming a major new platform for delivering broadband service to rural, exurban and other markets that couldn't be reached cost-effectively with wireline networks. But deploying FWA is much easier said than done because of geographical, spectrum, technical, regulatory, cost and other knotty obstacles. When does it pay for cablecos to go the FWA route? What conditions are the most favorable? In this session, leading industry technologists will examine the pros and cons of FWA.
Sponsors:
SCTE Speaker: Bob Wald

Making the Most of DAA
Date: 5/18/23
As cable operators and vendors increasingly deploy distributed access architecture (DAA) technology to shift key functions and equipment from the cable headend to the HFC access network, one critical question is how to get the biggest bang for the buck out of the next-gen technology. What are operators and vendors learning from their rollouts of Remote PHY and Remote MAC/PHY? How are they applying those lessons in the field? What next steps are they considering? This session will explore the state of DAA and look at where the industry is heading.
Sponsors:
SCTE Speaker: Dennis Brown

Cranking Up the Upstream
Date: 6/15/23
Following decades of focusing mainly on expanding their downstream spectrum, cable operators are now seeking to increase their upstream capacity to handle the heavier loads on their networks caused by wvideo conferencing, online gaming, work-from-home and other bandwidth-intensive applications during the pandemic. Operators are pursuing both short and long-term strategies, especially spectrum mid-splits and high-splits, to boost their upstream capacity without sacrificing downstream space. This webinar will examine the leading upstream expansion options, the hurdles involved in carrying them out and the ways to overcome those hurdles.
Sponsors:
SCTE Speaker: Dean Stoneback

Good Optics: Paving the Path for Coherent PON
Date: 7/20/23
Led by CableLabs, cable technologists are now laying the groundwork for emerging coherent PON (C-PON) technologies with 100Gbps capabilities, which will enable operators to reclaim optical spectrum and break through potential bottlenecks as data demands grow and network deployment options expand. Specifically, they are crafting definitions and designs for 100G coherent point-to-point "aggregation nodes" and "coherent termination devices" that would support C-PON's vast bandwidth capacity. How much difference will all this make? What work must still be done? When might C-PON products be available? This webinar will delve into these issues and more.
Sponsors:
SCTE Speaker: Steve Harris

Tackling the Digital Divide
Date: 8/17/23
With tens of billions of dollars in government subsidies now available to build new broadband networks in unnerved and underserved areas, cable operators and rival providers are lining up for grants to build new fiber, HFC and wireless networks and help close the Digital Divide. But, even with those public subsidies in place, that task is much easier said than done because of the equipment, labor, materials, contractors, regulatory, energy costs and other hurdles they face. How are cablecos and their vendor partners tackling these issues? What types of networks are they planning and building? In this session, we will delve into these issues and more.
Sponsors:
SCTE Speaker: Robin Fenton

Ramping Up for DOCSIS 4.0
Date: 9/14/23
The DOCSIS 4.0 era is drawing ever nearer as such leading MSOs as Comcast, Charter, Cox, Vodafone Germany, Liberty Global and others continue to test the twin flavors of the next-gen spec in their labs and leading vendors continue to develop the amplifiers, taps, nodes, modems and other gear to support them. Where does the industry stand with both Full Duplex DOCSIS (FDX) and Extended Spectrum DOCSIS (ESD) now? When will pilot and commercial deployments begin? In this session, we review the latest tech and field trials, equipment development progress and spectrum upgrade plans.
Sponsors:
SCTE Speaker: Dennis Brown

Fighting Fiber with Fiber
Date: 10/19/23
Even as they prep for DOCSIS 4.0 and other HFC plant upgrades, cable operators are rapidly installing more fiber lines to expand bandwidth capacity, offer faster data speeds, launch new services, slash operating costs and compete with fiber-happy rivals like AT&T and Verizon. Yet, even as they invest more heavily in fiber, cablecos face critical questions about their upgrade strategies, their timing and the costs involved. This webinar will explore cable's embrace of fiber builds, the opportunities that more fiber enables and the deployment, testing, operational and other challenges that it presents for the industry.
Sponsors:
SCTE Speaker: Steve Harris

Priming the Pump for Next-Gen PON
Date: 11/16/23
While the cable industry maintains its love affair with DOCSIS, it is increasingly finding room in its heart for PON as well. As operators add more fiber lines to their legacy HFC plant, or in some cases even overbuild their old plant with fiber networks, they are turning more and more to GPON, EPON and XGS-PON technology to expand their bandwidth capacity and deliver faster data speeds and other more advanced services. How is cable's evolution to fiber and next-gen versions of PON going? What speed bumps is the industry hitting? How can cablecos mix and match DOCSIS and PON services? This webinar will address these questions and more.
Sponsors:
SCTE Speaker: Paul Rodrigues

Going to 10G & Beyond
Date: 12/14/23
As another busy year of technology development winds down, the cable industry is now starting to deliver on its promise to offer multi-gig speeds to subscribers over its legacy HFC network. Leading MSOs like Comcast and Altice USA are rolling our 2 Gig and faster service, lab and field trials of both flavors of DOCSIS 4.0 are moving forward and vendors are developing the relevant equipment and software to support the higher speeds and greater bandwidth demands. What comes next in the 10G evolution? What will the new year bring for cable's 10G quest? What challenges must still be overcome? In this year-end session, we will look at where cable stands nearly five years into the 10G era.
Sponsors:
SCTE Speaker: Chris Bastian