Cable / Telecom News

One day left to nominate a young engineer


TORONTO – Nominations close Wednesday, December 10th for the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) brand new Young Canadian Engineering Professional of the Year Award.

The SCTE, along with Aurora Networks as the primary sponsor and Cartt.ca as the publishing partner, last month announced the development and launch of a new award that annually will recognize a young cable telecommunications engineering professional in Canada who is already making his or her mark on the industry.

The Young Canadian Engineering Professional of the Year Award will debut as part of the inaugural SCTE Canadian Summit, which is set for Tuesday and Wednesday, February 3-4, 2009, in Toronto. The award will be presented during the Summit’s Awards Luncheon on February 3.

Individuals can be nominated for the award based upon their outstanding contributions, achievements, and leadership in advancing the cable telecommunications industry. Nominees must be a Canadian resident, an SCTE member, and under the age of 35 as of December 31, 2008.

The deadline for nominations for the first Young Canadian Engineering Professional of the Year – the 2009 award – is Wednesday, December 10, 2008. Individuals interested in submitting a nomination may do so by visiting www.scte.org, selecting Member Services, and then selecting Awards and Recognition.

The new annual SCTE Canadian Summit itself is designed to promote the exchange of technical information for today and tomorrow among Canadian engineering professionals.

The gathering (whose exhibitor space is sold out) will bridge the impacts of integrating new technologies into existing cable infrastructures. Attendees will understand the opportunities and the pitfalls – all to maximize customer satisfaction and gain operational efficiencies.

Session topics include:
* DOCSIS 3.0: Cable’s Competitive Edge
* Fibre-Rich/Fibre-Deep: Finding the Right Balance of F and C in HFC
* Improving the Customer’s Quality of Experience
* Internet Capacity Management
* Spectrum Management: Managing the Pipe We Have
* Understanding tru2way from Standards to Deployments
* Issues and Challenges for Today’s Technical Operations: Meeting the Objective of Customer Excellence
* Technology Leaders Roundtable: Led by members of the Canadian Summit Program Committee (which includes Rogers Cable’s Dermot O’Carroll, Denis Belanger of Cogeco Cable, Steve Irvine of EastLink, Daniel Proulx of Videotron, and Dennis Steiger of Shaw Communications).

Details and registration directions are available at www.scte.org, or click here for the direct link.