Legendary "plumber" Switzer says RF days are numbered, net neutrality "a fact" within decade

TORONTO – It wasn’t a long speech, but did hit a number of nails on the head, with a sledgehammer.Legendary cable engineer Israel “Sruki” Switzer, whom we profiled here, opened the Canadian Summit of the SCTE Tuesday with a bang – telling the 200-plus folks at breakfast that RF – collectively, their bread and butter and the way cable television has been delivered for nearly six decades – is at the end of its useful life.Switzer has designed and built cable and telecommunications infrastructure around the world, beginning in the 1950s and once said: “I’m just a plumber. I put...