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The SCTE announced the return for a second year of the SCTE IP Challenge, a competition designed to test knowledge and heighten understanding of Internet protocol technologies. Practice rounds will be held May 19-25, and qualifying rounds will run from … Continue reading
The SCTE has approved SCTE 179 2012, “Recommended Practice Upgrading EAS to CAP Compliance.” The document is intended to provide general background information concerning cable operators’ adoption of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) and a generic technical and operational checklist to … Continue reading
The SCTE has approved SCTE 108 2012, “Test Method for Dielectric Withstand of Coaxial Cable.” The document is intended to provide a test standard for detecting flaws in the insulation (sometimes referred to as the dielectric) of a completed coaxial cable. … Continue reading
Services to reduce energy consumption in the home, guidelines for energy management in cable facilities and a roadmap for the introduction of standards for the management and availability of power within the network will headline energy-related exhibits of CableLabs and … Continue reading
The SCTE issued a final call for proposals for Cable-Tec Expo 2012 technical sessions. The deadline for submissions is May 18. The Expo Program Committee is particularly interested in abstracts addressing Business Services; Capacity Management; Network & Technical Operations; Smart … Continue reading
BTR is pleased to announce that the SCTE is adding BTR to its already valuable list of Member Benefits. Watch your inboxes each week for best-of-breed features, blogs, news and thought leadership on the cable tech space, plus our exclusive … Continue reading
The SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2012 website — http://expo.scte.org — is live, and discounted pre-registrations are available. Expo is set for Oct. 17-19 in Orlando, FL. In conjunction with Expo, the SCTE will host a Digital Home Symposium and selected pre-conference … Continue reading
Guy McCormick, vice president of technology engineering at Cox Communications, will speak on systems development life cycle (SDLC) processes when the SCTE and the Georgia Tech College of Management debut their Management Development Program May 7-11 in Atlanta. In his … Continue reading
The SCTE has approved four standards: two on VoIP, one on test points, and another on optical fiber. SCTE 24-21 2012, “BV16 Speech Codec Specification for Voice over IP Applications in Cable Telephony,” contains the description of the BV16 speech codec, … Continue reading
The Llano Estacado Chapter captured Chapter of the Year honors and three other awards at the SCTE‘s annual Chapter Awards Dinner. Llano Estacado, representing engineering and operations professionals from Suddenlink Communications and other organizations in the Lubbock, TX, area, edged … Continue reading
The SCTE announced that Andy Parrott, corporate vice president of technical operations for Suddenlink Communications, has been named the 2012 recipient of the annual SCTE Excellence in Cable Telecommunications Learning and Development Award. Parrott, who has spent almost two decades … Continue reading
The SCTE has approved two VBI standards, one on closed captioning and the other on data carriage. SCTE 20 2012, “Methods for Carriage of CEA-608 Closed Captions and Non-Real Time Sampled Video,” defines a standard for the carriage of CEA-608 closed … Continue reading
The SCTE announced two new developments that are intended to help cable operators optimize network performance: the release of the “SCTE Measurement Recommended Practices, Fourth Edition” and the creation of a standards subcommittee focused on network operations. The new resources … Continue reading
