EXTON, PA – SCTE•ISBE and cable heavyweights Comcast and Liberty Global are challenging the tech industry to devise new solutions to manage energy across broadband networks.
The Adaptive Power Challenge is focussing on finding solutions in the following three areas deemed integral to the delivery of cable communications services:
- Monitoring & Measurement – Monitoring and measuring energy consumption and ambient conditions correlating quality and health of services with energy;
- Demand Response – The ability to implement “peak shaving” and functionality that results in load shedding; and
- Supply & Control – Using the functionality of adaptive power DOCSIS-enabled devices to control consumption profiles and service quality dependent on energy supply.
Open to commercial and academic developers, innovators, scientists and technology solution providers, the challenge offers winners in two categories – Established Enterprises and Breakthrough Organizations such as labs, universities and startups – the opportunity to test their solutions with the biggest cable system operators in the world.
The winners will also receive prizes of $10,000 each for solutions that can lead to breakthrough change in cable network energy management. SCTE•ISBE and the industry said that they are particularly interested in solutions that address access networks and edge facilities, in which 73-83% of cable operators’ energy consumption occurs.
Entries will be judged by a panel of industry leaders including representatives from Rogers and Shaw as well as Comcast, Liberty Global, Cox, and CableLabs.
Applications may be submitted until June 29 and finalists will be announced on September 12. Six finalists will compete by presenting their solutions on October 23 at SCTE•ISBE Cable-Tec Expo 2018 in Atlanta, with the two winners to be announced onsite.
More information on the challenge, including how to apply, is available at www.adaptivepowerchallenge.com
