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SCTE highlights broadband challenges in its Spring Lecture Meeting

The advent of IPTV, VoIP and peer-to-peer have heralded many new challenges for the cable industry. The European cable industry is pushing ahead with higher-speed broadband, Voice over IP, VOD, TV-on-demand, PVR and HDTV. Today’s broadband professional needs to be aware of a range of different issues such as standards, installation, distribution, cost, service differentiation and network monitoring challenges.

These, and many other topics, will be covered in the 2011 Spring Lecture Meeting organised by SCTE, The Society for Broadband Professionals, on 6 April 2011. Held at the IET in Savoy Place (London, UK), the event will highlight challenges and offer solutions to some of the issues facing cable engineers and manufacturers today.

Speakers and presentations at the Spring Lecture Meeting include:-

"Next Generation Home Gateways: Multiroom, Any Content Source, Any Device"

Cornel Ciocirlan, VP Sales Engineering EMEA, ARRIS

“FTTH Developments in the Netherlands”

Thomas Alexander Hosch, Area Sales Manager, Broadband EMEA, BV Twentsche Kabelfabriek

“Deploying Managed IP Video Services with Maximum Network Efficiency: Transport and Operational Considerations”

Ludovic Milin, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, BigBand Networks

Distribution of Satellite TV over a Passive Optical Network

Dr. Andrew Collar, Fibre Project Manager, Global Invacom Ltd. 

Better Signals – Better HDTV”

Oliver Herzberger, Manager, Systems Engineering, Dev Systemtechnik GmbH & Co. KG

The SCTE stages lecture meetings four times per year at the IET in London and through its Benelux Group at selected European venues as well as in the Balkans. The Society chairs the British Standards Committee for cable systems and represents the UK at European (CENELEC) and world (IEC) levels.

Founded in 1945, the SCTE is a Learned Society and non-profit making organisation 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.