The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers has announced the speaker lineup for the organization’s Wireless and DOCSIS 3.1 Pre-Conference Symposium to be held Monday, Sept. 22, in conjunction with SCTE Cable-Tec Expo at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.
SCTE said the full-day symposium, presented jointly with CableLabs, will address the current status of cable’s wireless activities, with a clear emphasis on WiFi, as well as DOCSIS 3.1, an emerging CableLabs spec that is targeting capacities of up to 10 Gbps downstream and at least 1 Gbps in the upstream.
Scheduled from 9:00 AM until 4:30 p.m. M at Denver’s Colorado Convention Center, the symposium is a joint presentation of SCTE and CableLabs. The Symposium, scheduled for 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mountain Time, will feature four sessions each on wireless and DOCSIS 3.1.
Here’s the current lineup:
-9:15 a.m. – Carrier Grade Wi-Fi; Mark Poletti, Lead Wireless Architect, CableLabs;
-9:45 a.m. – Wi-Fi Analytics, Cloud and Radio Resource Management; Scott Helms, Vice President of Technology, ZCorum;
-10:45 a.m. – Community Wi-Fi; Vivek Ganti, System Engineer, CableLabs;
-11:30 a.m. – Wi-Fi Antenna Design and Surveying; Perry Correll, Principal Technologist, Xirrus, Inc.;
-1:00 p.m. – DOCSIS 3.1: Current Status and Schedule; Jorge Salinger, Vice President, Access Architecture, Comcast; and Belal Hamzeh, Director and Principal Architect, CableLabs;
-1:30 PM – DOCSIS 3.1: Bandwidth Opportunities; Belal Hamzeh, Director and Principal Architect, CableLabs;
-2:30 p.m. - DOCSIS 3.1 Profiles – Customizing Bandwidth; John Chapman, CTO of Cable Access Business Unit and Cisco Fellow, Cisco Systems, Inc.;
-3:15 p.m. – DOCSIS 3.1: Operational Integration and Proactive Network Maintenance Tools; Brady Volpe, President and Founder, The Volpe Firm.
