Encouraged by generous public subsidy programs for fiber network builds, cablecos are increasingly turning to GPON, EPON, XGS-PON and 10G EPON to meet the needs of their broadband subscribers.
But making the pivot to PON is no easy matter because of the technical integration and operational issues of bringing DOCSIS and PON networks together. How is cable's evolution to PON proceeding? What speed bumps is the industry hitting along the way? How can cablecos mix and match DOCSIS and PON services over HFC and FTTP lines? This webinar will address these questions and more.
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.
Robin Fenton, Vice President of Membership & Learning Operations, SCTE
Robin Fenton is the Vice President of Membership & Learning Operations for the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE). In this role, she oversees operations impacting 10,000 learners, 3,000 certified professionals, 60 chapters and 18,000 members worldwide. Her responsibilities include developing and executing strategies that encourage member engagement, customer satisfaction, learner development, and empowering volunteers to carry out the mission of SCTE at the local level.
Robin started her SCTE career in 2002 as manager of standards operations for SCTE, where she managed the cable industry standards process from the initial project authorization through committee approval and final American National Standards Institute (ANSI) review. In 2006, she became the director of chapter support, providing resources, tools and support for over 70 chapters and 1,100 volunteers. In addition to cable, her prior work includes utility, manufacturing and broadcasting industry experience.
She earned her master’s in business administration from Pennsylvania State University and her bachelor’s in communications emphasis in broadcasting and public relations from Mansfield University. In 2020, she was recognized as a leader in the cable industry as a CableFax Honoree for Most Powerful Women in Cable.
Vijay Raman, Vice President, Product Management, Vecima
Vijay Raman is Vice President of Product Management at Vecima, responsible for Vecima’s Entra® Fiber product portfolio.
Vijay has 20+ years of experience working with Fixed Access and Wireless Access products and solutions. He’s worked closely with cable and telco service providers on Fiber, HFC, DSL access and L2/L3 network designs for residential and enterprise business deployment architectures.
He’s held leadership positions in Product Management, Technical Marketing, Business Development, Systems Engineering & Customer Support with several public and startup tech companies that led their respective markets in technology innovation, including Nokia/Gainspeed, Overture/Hatteras (Adtran) and Aruba Wireless Networks (HPE).
Vijay holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Dan Gledhill, Senior Vice President, Fiber, Harmonic
Dan Gledhill, Senior Vice President, Fiber at Harmonic, leads the company’s fiber broadband initiatives. Dan has over a decade of experience in the telecommunications sector working with operators to offer fast, reliable, affordable internet to their subscribers. He holds bachelor’s degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Columbia University and Physics from Colgate University.
Paul Mannion, Broadband Segment Director at Intel’s Network And Edge Solutions group
Broadband Segment Director at Intel’s Network And Edge Solutions group
Based in Shannon, Co Clare, Ireland
Worked in the Telco Industry since 1995 – 30 year Veteran mostly in the area of packet processing for both wireless and wireline networks
Worked on all areas of network evolutions from X.25 through ATM, MPLS, Network Processors onto NFV and now to Cloud Native Networks
More recently working on the area of the cloudification of Fixed Access Networks and also the application of AI/ML