Founded in 1945, the SCTE (Society for Broadband Professionals) is a non-profit making organisation, managed by an Executive Committee of elected volunteers, whose aim is to raise the standard of broadband engineering in the telecommunications industry. The Society particularly concerns itself with the training and career advancement of technical professionals in this field. Membership is open to anyone involved in cable telecommunications engineering with grades from Technician to Fellow.

SCTE training courses have achieved wide acceptance as the standard for young technicians wishing to enter the field of cable telecommunications and for those wishing to advance their knowledge and career prospects. They are used in-house by a number of operating companies and SCTE engineers can be found working in variety of international organisations.

As a Learned Society, SCTE is able to provide accreditation and certification for its members, giving them professional standing within the industry. Full Members and Fellows are allowed to use the designations MSCTE and FSCTE after their names whilst Technician Members may use TMSCTE. A new Student Member category has just been accepted.

The SCTE stages conferences, exhibitions and lecture meetings all around the world as well as holding numerous networking events for members (such as golf days, riverboat trips and the prestigious annual dinner and broadband awards). The Society also chairs the British Standards Committee for cable systems and represents the UK at European (CENELEC) and world (IEC) levels.