SCTE® LiveLearning for Professionals Webinar™ Series: Going to 10G & BeyondSCTE® LiveLearning for Professionals Webinar™ Series: Going to 10G & Beyond

As another busy year of technology development winds down, the cable industry is now starting to deliver on its promise to offer multi-gig speeds to subscribers over its legacy HFC network.

Leading MSOs like Comcast and Altice USA are rolling our 2 Gig and faster service, lab and field trials of both flavors of DOCSIS 4.0 are moving forward and vendors are developing the relevant equipment and software to support the higher speeds and greater bandwidth demands. What comes next in the 10G evolution? What will the new year bring for cable's 10G quest? What challenges must still be overcome?

Speakers:
Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading
Alan covers the cable, fiber, broadband, and IP video markets for Heavy Reading. In particular, he tracks new cable, broadband, and video technologies and standards, such as DOCSIS 4.0, FTTP, DAA, XGS-PON, 10G EPON, streaming video, network virtualization, business services, Wi-Fi 6, and ATSC 3.0.

With a strong background in both business journalism and technology research, Alan has covered the cable, telecom, broadband, media, and consumer electronics markets as an editor and analyst for more than 30 years, including the past 17 years for Light and Heavy Reading. A New York City native, Alan is now based in Ontario, Canada.

Chris Bastian

Steve Harris,VP of Global Commercial Relations, SCTE

Steve is respected internationally as a subject matter expert, author, and thought leader in broadband telecommunications, high technology, and information technology systems engineering. As the VP of Global Commercial Relationships for SCTE, a subsidiary of CableLabs®, Steve leads global business development and collaborative industry agreements for SCTE.  He is responsible for the architecture of new education curriculum, certification credentials, hands-on skills training, and customized career learning journeys.  These programs are designed to demonstrate return on investment for operators, the vendor community, chapters, and SCTE partners. SCTE programs supports the workforce in such areas as distributed access, FTTx/PON, DOCSIS,  wireless, virtualization, IP routing, business services, cybersecurity, data analytics, facilities, installation services, and outside plant. Holding more than 50 industry and instructor certifications, as well as a Cable Pioneer, Steve has been a leader in conducting broadband technical education programs; serving as lead instructor for SCTE, SMPTE, Cisco, CWNP, CompTIA as well as collaborates with military organizations developing innovative career path education programs. Steve earned his Bachelors of Telecommunications from FHSU and has over 30 years of experience in technology, telecommunications, and adult learning.

Rob Wilmoth, Senior Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat
Rob Wilmoth is a Senior Principal Solution Architect on the Red Hat Americas Service Provider team. He works closely with customers and partners assisting with challenges ranging from regulatory compliance and general IT, to changing their perspectives and approaches towards business problems in the network and content delivery spaces. He has excelled in solution architecture roles supporting a range of industry participants including AT&T, WarnerMedia, Charter Communications, Comcast, TIAA Bank and the utility industry.

Colin Howlett, Chief Technology Officer, Vecima
Colin Howlett is the Chief Technology Officer, joining Vecima in 1997. He is responsible for defining the overall technology strategy at Vecima and leads a group of product architects who work directly with customers to define the next generation of Vecima products. Colin has been an active participant in industry standards development at CableLabs and SCTE (Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers) in the areas of DOCSIS and Distributed Access Architectures.

Colin holds multiple patents in cable broadband access, a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree, and Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of Saskatchewan.

Thuy Nguyen, Head of Cable Segment, Network & Edge Division (NEX), Intel
Thuy Nguyen leads the Cable Segment for Intel's Network Platforms Group (NPG). Intel is focused on helping cable MSO's and the cable partner ecosystem transform HFC networks to meet the ever growing demand for more broadband bandwidth. Thuy supports the Intel team developing access network solutions enabling Network Functions Virtualization to help Cable MSO's scale their HFC networks for the next decade of growth and network transformation.

Prior to Intel Corporation, Thuy has spent more than 20 years working in the Cable broadband industry where he previously served Comcast as GM & VP of Engineering. Thuy has worked in Network Engineering capacities for Rogers Cablesystems, @Home Network (Excite@Home), Comcast, and Charter. Thuy has also worked for Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, and startup companies developing cable broadband and wireless solutions.