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Call for PapersCABLE-TEC EXPO®2019

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CALL FOR PAPERS Abstracts Must Be Submitted to

SCTE•ISBE by Friday, March 22, 2019.The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), along with its

global brand, the International Society of Broadband Experts (ISBE), is seeking

proposals for technical papers and operational practices for the Fall Technical

Forum at SCTE•ISBE Cable-Tec Expo® 2019. Themed “Raising the Bar,”

Cable-Tec Expo® 2019 will take place Monday through Thursday, September

30 through October 3, in New Orleans, LA. The Cable-Tec Expo® 2019 Program

Committee, co-chaired by Thomas E. Adams, EVP, Field Operations, Charter

Communications and Bill Warga, VP, Technology, Liberty Global, will review

all abstracts.

The Cable-Tec Expo® 2019 Program Committee is targeting submissions in the following 11 key areas:

• Wireline Access Network

• Wireless Access Network

• Converging Access Networks

• Innovation Across Technologies

• Internet of Things

• Operational Transformation

• Virtualization & Cloud

• Security

• Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning & Data Analytics

• Business Services

• Video Services

Submissions will be either technical papers, which describe new and emerging technologies, or operational practices, which provide field guidance.

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Wireline Access Network• Planning fiber deep deployments for 10G

• What needs to change in the network to support 10G

• PON and HFC intermix strategies for 10G and commercial

• Distributed access architectures, FDX DOCSIS®, and extended spectrum DOCSIS®

• Full spectrum bandwidth characterization, design, and performance of FDX DOCSIS® networks

• Real-world implications for FDX DOCSIS® deployments

• Implementation review or case study of DOCSIS® 3.1 Profile Management Application (PMA)

• Operationalizing remote PHY or operationalizing remote PHY in a rural environment

• Analysis and business case for DOCSIS® 1.8 GHz spectrum expansion or extended spectrum DOCSIS®

• Automated wavelength mapping, fault detection and PNM opportunities for passive optical networks

• Cost optimizations for coherent optics in the access network

• DWDM and muxing design considerations in the access network

• Using DOCSIS® 3.0 PNM to facilitate DOCSIS® 3.1 and FDX plant readiness and coexistence testing

• Examination of present and future low latency applications

• Techniques for improving HFC network reliability

• Use of advanced mapping (GIS) to improve network design and reliability

• Practical powering for next-gen access networks

• Generic Access Platform

• DOCSIS® 3.1 OFDMA in the return

• Improving upstream capacity of an HFC network

Wireless Access Network• Analysis of advanced Wi-Fi technology including Wi-Fi 6 and resulting applications

• Explanation, analysis and implications of licensed-assisted access (LAA) for Wi-Fi-5G coexistence

• Mid-band spectrum opportunities and challenges: C-band, CBRS, BRS-EBS

• Spectrum technology and policy issues and spectrum strategies for wireless product deployment

• Wireless network engineering and operations

• mmWave opportunities and challenges

• Backhaul/fronthaul opportunities/challenges

• 5G—cable’s role (enabler or player), unlicensed opportunities and threats

• Improving wireless networks in the home

• Wireless network business models—a comprehensive look at the options cable operators have, and the business models behind them, for wireless services and networks

• Impact of 5G on the core network

• Where can wireless compete with wired access to the home?

• Using spectrum sharing to deploy 4G/5G capable wireless networks

• 5G in the enterprise and industrial applications

• CBRS OnGo wireless broadband ecosystem evolution status, use cases, and deployment experiences

• Leveraging unlicensed spectrum for private LTE network deployments

Abstracts addressing

a nearer term solution

(within the next three

years) regarding the

following topics will

be given priority.

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Converging Access Networks• What does network slicing mean for cable networks, fixed, mobile, and converged—

the technology, services, economics, and operations?

• The singularity of next-generation access—a unified virtual access network, defined based on big data and machine learning, a unified and dynamic access layer, self- organized, self-configured, and self-regulated to enable singularity between the user and the network

• Fixed mobile convergence, the convergence of 5G/DOCSIS®/Fiber—how next-generation access technologies come together—architectures, technologies, economics, and operations

• Edge compute architectures and addressable services

Innovation Across Technologies• Evolving into partnership ecosystems—how are cable operators currently

establishing, and could establish, partner value networks to move further away from being a “connectivity provider”?

• Emerging technologies and their impact on the cable industry

Internet of Things• Cable’s role in enabling a ubiquitous network (home gateways to out-of-home)

• If the cable industry builds the IoT infrastructure, will IoT services and customers come?

• Massive IoT—leveraging cellular networks for LPWA

• IoT services for businesses and universities

Operational Transformation• How digital transformations can support new business models and operations models

• How FDX will impact field operations including meters and troubleshooting techniques

• Skills and talents required for the future of cable and how to transform our workforce to meet these demands in an increasingly competitive environment along with training required to re-skill the existing workforce and attract new entrants into the workforce

Virtualization & Cloud• Services-agnostic networks—enabling software-controlled network access that

enables services ubiquitously (i.e., unbinding services from access technologies)

• Fundamentals of building a cloud

• SDN and automation

• Virtualization: when and why does it make sense?

• Virtualization of the edge network (CCAP) and CPE

• Delivering virtualized services at scale and peak performance

• VMs or containers? Pros, cons, performance and deployment speed tradeoffs

• Headend re-architected as a datacenter (HERD) and its operational impacts

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Security• Growing risks and vulnerabilities are increasing the network service provider’s

responsibilities and obligations for residential and commercial customers—how to respond and create confidence among our consumers

• Managing connectivity, device and data management, data integrity, and security in IoT networks

• End-to-end security

• Third-party security; security as a service (SaaS)

• Extending cable industry security tools to business customers

• Security of open source software

• Securing the customer’s premises

• Security threat trends

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning & Data Analytics• How will AI/ML/DA enable the future of cable (from network management to

customer experience and operations)?

• Evolved communications services and personal assistants

• Augmented operations—leveraging analytics and automation to make operations more efficient and effective

• How automation benefits the customer experience

Business Services• Leveraging and optimizing the network for both residential and business

service requirements

• What opportunities does network slicing provide for the future of cable networks?

• Impact of Wi-Fi 6 and 5G on the business environment

• The opportunity for SMB Mobility

• The emerging SD-WAN market

• Managed business service offerings

Video Services• Impact of ATSC 3.0, retransmission considerations, business opportunities

and challenges

• What is required to convert headends to IP video? Implications for ad insertion, regional blackouts and PEG channels

• Virtualized video headends

• Delivering video over DAA

• Reinventing legacy video, an important element in the cable bundle

While abstracts on the above specified topics will be given priority, other topics

addressing cable industry technical, engineering, and business issues will also

be considered.

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WHAT DO YOU PROPOSE?Enter each submission separately to:

Enter each SCTE•ISBE Cable-Tec Expo® 2019 Abstract Submission here by

Friday, March 22, 2019, the call for papers deadline. Each abstract submission

will be limited to 2,000 characters (approximately 300 words).

Include:

• Technical Paper or Operational Practice’s Title

• Brief Description of Proposed Content

• Name of Author/Presenter

• Company

• Mailing Address

• Telephone Number

• E-mail Address

Previously published papers and practices and product-specific presentations

will not be accepted.

The SCTE•ISBE Cable-Tec Expo® 2019 Program Committee will announce

selected abstracts by Wednesday, April 24, 2019.

Selected participants must complete and submit an electronic version of their

technical paper or operational practice and associated PowerPoint presentation

by Friday, July 19, 2019, for inclusion in the SCTE•ISBE Cable-Tec Expo® 2019

Fall Technical Forum Technical Proceedings.

For questions regarding the SCTE•ISBE Cable-Tec Expo® 2019 Fall Technical

Forum or submitting abstracts, please contact EXPO_info@scte.org.