EXTON, PA – The SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies (ET) 2009 packed 18 technical presentations plus an architectural trends-focused closing panel into “one efficient, informative day” last Friday, April 3, organizers said.
ET 2009 took place at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., as part of the new annual Cable Connection – Spring that united multiple industry events, including NCTA’s The Cable Show, at one time and place.
Under the theme ‘The Path to Flexible, Advanced Networks,’ this year’s conference focused on four subjects – ‘intelligent capacity planning and management in the downstream’; ‘maximizing upstream capacity’; ‘the path to the IP future’, and ‘scaling the network infrastructure’.
The event “succinctly helped attendees to weigh multiple technological options and their timing to efficiently and effectively manage bandwidth and move the changing industry into the next decade”, organizers said in an announcement, while keeping the focus on business models of intelligent engineering solutions.
SCTE president and CEO Mark Dzuban moderated a new attraction that debuted this year, a closing panel called ‘Meet the Chief Architects’. The panelists, Matt Bell of Charter Communications, Weidong Mao of Comcast Cable, and Howard Pfeffer of Time Warner Cable, shared their visions for a smooth transition to a future that will see the integration of web-based technologies and the management of a growing supply of user generated content.
The annual event provides a technical perspective projecting what the cable industry’s engineering landscape is expected to look like in three-to-five years.
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) is a non-profit professional association that provides technical leadership for the telecommunications industry, serving its members through professional development, standards, certification and information.
