EXTON, PA – The SCTE is seeking proposals for technical sessions for the SCTE Canadian Summit 2012, which is set for the final week of March in Toronto. Cartt.ca will once again be the event’s official media partner.
Specific to the Canadian cable telecommunications market, the focus of the SCTE Canadian Summit this year is to add significant coverage of wireless technologies, infrastructure, and services to the more typical cable networking technologies and services.
All sessions should be interactive where possible and include case studies as application examples. Interested participants should submit their one-page proposals (no more than 200 words) in abstract form and include topic heading, paper title, delivery method (including explanation of how the session will include interactive components), a brief description of proposed session content, name of author/presenter, company, mailing address, telephone/fax numbers, and e-mail address. Previously published papers and product-specific presentations will not be accepted.
Abstracts must be tailored for workshop learning and provide real-world tools that attendees can apply to their everyday work. Preference also will be given to presenters offering a hands-on, interactive approach with details from trials outlining what has worked and what hasn’t.
E-mail proposals are due no later than November 28 to Glenda Calcaterra at gcalcaterra@scte.org. Selected presentations will be announced by January 6, and selected presenters will be required to provide electronic versions of their technical papers and presentations to the SCTE by January 27, 2012.
Breakout Sessions at the Summit will address the following areas, and submissions should specify one of the areas below:
Track One: Evolution of wireline and wireless access networks and delivery of converged services over those networks
Wireless is becoming an increasingly important part of our access networks in terms of architecture, technologies, and integration. Wireline networks and technologies will need to continue to evolve to meet the needs of both residential and business customers. Topics of interest for this track include:
- WiFi hotspots, Super WiFi, HSPA, LTE and WiMax
- Wireless backhaul architectures
- Wireless mesh networks
- MSO positioning for pico- and femto-cellular networks, including business and home coverag
e - Use case examples for the upcoming 700MHz spectrum
- White space utilization
- Wireline/wireless access network architecture options for meeting growth in bandwidth demands
- In-building wireline/wireless solutions
- New fibre node technologies for integrating business and residential networks
- CCAP architecture and deployment options
- RFoG
- Phone peering architectures
- Modern VOD and switched digital video architectures
- Next generation/higher resolution video architectures, transport and best practices
- IPv6 transition and best practices
- Evolution and the architecture of the headend and media distribution
- Evolution of DOCSISÒ upstream and the mid-split return
- Ethernet and PON over Coax (EPOC, EPON, DOCSIS over fibre)
Track Two: Converged Residential Services
Residential customer expectations are increasing for service convergence and for a truly customer-centric experience. What does the service provide need to be most concerned about in providing these services while exceeding expectations? Topics of interest include:
- Over the top video services and platforms
- IP video delivery using adaptive bit rate technologies
- IP video architectures and services,
- Content delivery network architectures and best practices including federated and mobile CDN
- Media preparation including transcoding/transrating best practices
- Management and authentication of IP video including DRM choices
- In home networks, devices and services like home security services, managed WiFi home networks, MOCA and best practices
- Traditional cable consideration with Tru2way® (OCAP) and EBIF,
- Advanced topics like advertising, recommendation engines and social networking and the roles they will play
Track Three: Converged Business Service
Business customers have even higher expectations and they are often spelled out in service level agreements that the operator must meet or exceed. Business customers also have unique CPE and service needs as compared to residential customers. Topics of interest in this track include:
- Management and provisioning for business services
- Carrier Ethernet business services
- GPON/EPON (or next-generation PON) and RFoG for business services
- Wireless backhaul service provision and operations
- Business voice services
- SIP trunking (PRI/T1 replacement and IP interconnection)
- PBX topics (IP PBX services/hosted PBX and premises IP PBX)
- Backup services
- SLA achievement
- Addressable advertising
- D3 for business services
- Hospitality solutions (e.g. Pro: Idiom, HD, and IP STBs)
- MDU solutions
- Business cloud services: platform-, software-, and infrastructure-as-a-service
Track Four: Operations (Technical Operations, Plant Operations and Facilities Management)
Making our networks more capable, reliable, and cost-effective to operate will always be at the forefront for our technicians, engineers, scientists and managers. In addition, energy consumption reduction and management are emerging as key new areas of interest for cable professionals to address in their efforts to reduce cost of operations. Topics of interest in this track include:
- Hardware and software reliability
- Network availability and MTTR reduction tactics
- Best practices for achieving award winning quality
- Advanced/proactive monitoring capabilities
- Video quality monitoring
- Capacity planning and management
- Power/HVAC systems reliability and powering forecasts
- Grounding, bonding, shielding and transient protection
- Troubleshooting today’s video networks, headends and hubs
- Key performance indicators in modern cable networks
- Headend maintenance and testing
- Data center, network and facility planning, including disaster recovery
- High-density headend/hub equipment
- Green technologies as a means to lower OPEX, including green benefits of RFoG
- Higher order QAM and S-CDMA on the upstream
- Deploying DOCSIS 3.0 and best practices
- Headend/hub requirements for cloud architectures (cloud services, networked DVR, etc.)
- Optimizing customer quality of experience
- Workforce management
- Digital troubleshooting and proof of performance testing and measurement in a digital environment (e.g. CALM and EAS/CAP)
Other topics will be considered if relevant to the above but not expressly stated. Click here for more information on submitting a proposal.
