Returning for the 17th consecutive year, Light Reading’s Cable Next-Gen Business Services conference is a three-hour digital event focusing on the massive commercial services market and cable’s ever-growing role in that lucrative space.

Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading

December 5, 2023

3h 15m View
Cable Next-Gen Business Services Digital Symposium

Date: Dec 5, 2023

Duration: 3h 15m

With U.S. cable operators now collectively generating well over $20 billion annually in business services revenues, the sector has solidified its role as one of the most profitable for the industry.

But cablecos still face major challenges in maintaining their growth pace because of the continuing economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and the rapid rise of new all-fiber and wireless competitors. How is cable’s commercial cash cow rebounding from the financial wreckage wrought by the pandemic? What impacts are fiber and mobile providers having on the business services market? Where are the new growth opportunities for cable? Which new technologies and services is the industry developing and deploying to exploit those opportunities? What hurdles does the industry still face? In this digital symposium, Light Reading will tackle all these questions and more as we explore where cable’s commercial services efforts are heading.

Session 1: Smart Solutions for Clever Cities

Tuesday, December 05, 2023, 11:00 AM EDT

In this session, we will look at the possibilities and pitfalls of the emerging smart solutions and private networking market.

Moderator: Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading

Session 2: Managing the Network Edge

Tuesday, December 05, 2023, 12:45 PM EDT

This panel will assess cable's edge computing strategy and progress.

Moderator: Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading

About the Author(s)

Alan Breznick

Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading

Alan Breznick is a business editor and research analyst who has tracked the cable, broadband and video markets like an over-bred bloodhound for more than 20 years.

As a senior analyst at Light Reading's research arm, Heavy Reading, for six years, Alan authored numerous reports, columns, white papers and case studies, moderated dozens of webinars, and organized and hosted more than 15 -- count 'em --regional conferences on cable, broadband and IPTV technology topics. And all this while maintaining a summer job as an ostrich wrangler.

Before that, he was the founding editor of Light Reading Cable, transforming a monthly newsletter into a daily website. Prior to joining Light Reading, Alan was a broadband analyst for Kinetic Strategies and a contributing analyst for One Touch Intelligence.

He is based in the Toronto area, though is New York born and bred. Just ask, and he will take you on a power-walking tour of Manhattan, pointing out the tourist hotspots and the places that make up his personal timeline: The bench where he smoked his first pipe; the alley where he won his first fist fight. That kind of thing.

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