SCTE Daily DAY 02 - 09.24.14

Top Stories - September 24, 2014 Comcast's CTO: 'Shifts Happen' The cable industry must be ready to change and evolve its development models and accelerate its pace of innovation if it is to be prepared to fend off heated competition that's coming from multiple fronts, including from Web- and cloud-focused online video rivals. More» Bob Acheson Named SCTE 'Member Of The Year' Bob Acheson, a sales and marketing exec with San Bruno Cable TV of Sunnyvale, Calif., was named the SCTE "Member of the Year" Tuesday during Cable-Tec Expo's annual awards luncheon. More» DOCSIS 3.1 and the Bandwidth Bender Here's a shocker: Bandwidth usage is on a complete bender. More» Gearing Up for a Gigabit Cox CTO Kevin Hart outlines the MSO's tech priorities. More» Finding a Home for Community WiFi As community WiFi continues to light up in "home spots" around the world, connectivity providers are shaking down the technical barriers in a quest to grow it into a competitive flanking maneuver against cellular data, according to panelists at Monday's pre-SCTE Cable-Tec Expo DOCSIS 3.1 and Wireless Symposium. More» Volaris Acquires Incognito Incognito, a OSS and provisioning company with ties to cable operators and other telecom companies, announced that it has been acquired by Volaris Group for an undisclosed sum. More» 'Gigasphere' Has A Logo The cable industry introduced "Gigasphere" as the consumer-facing brand for DOCSIS 3.1 at The Cable Show in April, and now it has a logo to go with it. More» Learning How to Lead at SCTE-Tuck For a newcomer to cable technology like myself, the agenda for SCTE Cable-Tec Expo this week is a dizzying array of new technology and terminology. But even to the most seasoned cable professional, it's clear that the tech community is driving innovation in countless directions at once. More» Catching Up With CableLabs Led off by high-profile projects such as DOCSIS 3.1, CableLabs, the industry's interoperability specifications specialist and general research-and-development house, has its hands full keeping an eye on what's important now and what might be on the horizon — a horizon that includes fiber-to-the-home technologies and cable's expanding and evolving WiFi strategies. More» SCTE IP Challenge Winner Named Jamie Griffin of Full Channel Inc. prevailed over eight other contestants to win the 2014 SCTE IP Challenge, the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers said at Denver's SCTE Cable-Tec Expo. More» SCTE: Executive Coach's Advice: Ask More, Listen Better Executive coach and author Marshall Goldsmith gave SCTE Cable-Tec Expo attendees some valuable lessons on becoming a better leader and a better person during the conference's annual awards luncheon on Tuesday, Sept. 23. More» Comcast Wholesale Splices Ads Into Live, VOD Programming The Comcast Wholesale unit of Comcast Cable said it has developed a new way to insert ads into both linear and video-on-demand programming by integrating the workflows of its Comcast AdDelivery and VOD aggregation and delivering platforms. More» More 2014 SCTE Cable-Tec Expo News»

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