20682 - SCTE Broadband Aug2020 COMPLETE press

64 Vol. 42 No. 3 - August 2020 Issue Graeme Young. Editor. Look Inside. Report: The Christmas Lecture Meeting & Party. P2. .3P .elzzuPehTdnasnootraC .4P .weiveRkooB&sfeirBsweN,setaDyraiD .5P .2traPsmedoMelbaC .6P .leBiceDehT-egaPs'rennigeB .7P .seceiP&stiBdnaelpoeP,sweN .8P .spooLdekcoL-esahP Great job, Cy ril, not a single disconn ection in over a fortnight! Members will have noted the closure of the Cable & Wireless Internet Service. This has resulted in the email address for the Crosstalk Editor being changed to: jimmvisiony@netscapeonline.co.uk The old service terminated at midnight on Friday November 30th 2001. Regrettably the more memorable `jimvision' was disallowed on the new one, but efforts to regain it using the services of another ISP are now in hand. THE FUTURE OF CROSSTALK Crosstalk began with four pages in black and white, soon graduated to eight pages and colour and became a bi-monthly publication. Our eventual aim will be for Crosstalk to be produced on a monthly basis. Crosstalk is composed on a desk-top computer using Adobe Pagemaker software. The pages are typed, composed and saved separately, the images are imported from a Hewlett-Packard scanner, a Kodak digital camera and various royalty-free clip-art resources. A draft copy is sent to Wembley for scrutiny, missed errors are corrected, any changes effected, and the final version transferred to a CD. This CD is sent to our printing house in Leicester, Chatham Printers, for bulk printing. The objectives of Crosstalk are to inform, interest and often entertain all members of the Society, but principally the younger ones of technician and network engineer level. A feature on the publication and printing of Crosstalk will appear in a later issue. The financial Press, unfortunately, carried the above headline story over the Christmas and New Year holiday period. Whilst comment from us would be inappropriate, we would like to express the hope that NTL's problems will be overcome in this bright new year and extend our good wishes to all in our industry for renewed prosperity and favourable prospects in the future. Crosstalk has begun the fifth year of publication. In the four years of its existence we have seen some milestones, not only for the SCTE, but for the Cable Telecommunications Industry as a whole. In fact, everywhere we look, even in our own lives, amazing changes have taken place and advances made. It is safe to predict that 2002 will herald further upheavals and, hopefully, progress. Unhappily, in the midst of the sea of change, uncertainty and unwelcome moves will continue, jobs will be lost, engineering talent will leave the industry and grand schemes will contract. For those forced to leave the industry through redundancy, the future may look momentarily bleak. However, the message is simply, "Nil Desperandum", Never Despair. Some of the best small firms around have been started by people who, for one reason or another, have been forced to give up their nine-to-five jobs. Hopefully the bad times for Cable are coming to a close and this industry will stop bleeding from any more savage cuts in manpower. May 2002 be a year in which you happily forge ahead. Graeme Young. Editor. Look Inside. Report: The Christmas Lecture Meeting & Party. P2. .3P .elzzuPehTdnasnootraC .4P .weiveRkooB&sfeirBsweN,setaDyraiD .5P .2traPsmedoMelbaC .6P .leBiceDehT-egaPs'rennigeB .7P .seceiP&stiBdnaelpoeP,swe .8P .spooLdekcoL-esahP Great job, Cyril, not a single disconnection in over a fortnight! Members will have noted the closure of the Cable & Wireless Internet Service. This has resulted in the email address for the Crosstalk Editor being changed to: jimmvisiony@netscapeonline.co.uk The old service terminated at midnight on Friday November 30th 2001. Regrettably the more memorable `jimvision' was disallowed on the new one, but efforts to regain it using the services of another ISP are now in hand. THE FUTURE OF CROSSTALK Crosstalk began with four pages in black and white, soon graduated to eight pages and colour and became a bi-monthly publication. Our eventual aim will be for Crosstalk to be produced on a monthly basis. Crosstalk is composed on a desk-top computer using Adobe Pagemaker software. The pages re typed, composed and saved sep rately, the images ar imported from a Hewlett-Packard scanner, a Kodak digital camera and various royalty-free clip-art resources. A draft copy is sent to Wembley for scrutiny, missed errors are corrected, any changes effected, and the final version transferred to a CD. This CD is sent to our printing house in Leicester, Chatham Printers, for bulk printing. The objectives of Crosstalk are to inform, interest and often entertain all members f the Society, but principally the you ger ones of technician and network engineer level. A feature on the public tion and printing of Crosstalk will appear in a later issue. The financial Press, unfortunately, carried the above headline story over the Christmas and New Year holiday period. Whilst comment from us would be inappropriate, we would like to express the hope that NTL's problems will be overcome in this bright new year and extend our good wishes to all in our industry for renewed prosperity and favourable prospects in the future. Crosstalk has begun the fifth year of publication. In the four years of its existence we have seen some milestones, not only for the SCTE, but for the Cable Telecommunications Industry as a whole. In fact, everywhere we look, even in our own lives, amazing changes have taken place and advances made. It is safe to predict that 2002 will herald further upheavals and, hopefully, progress. Unhappily, in the midst of the sea of change, uncertainty and unwelcome moves will continue, jobs will be lost, engineering t lent will leave the industry and grand schemes will contract. F r ose forced to leav the industry hrough redundancy, the future may look mom ntarily bleak. However, t message is simply, "Nil Desperandum", Never Despair. Some of the best small firms around ave been started by people who, for one reason or another, have been forced to give up their nine-to-five jobs. Hopefully the bad times for Cable are coming to a close and this industry will stop bleeding from any more savage cuts in manpower. May 2002 be a year in which you happily forge ahead. Crosstalk - Volume 5 Issue 1 January/February 2002

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