NEW YORK -- UBM Techweb's Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), the principal research-led media company serving the global communications marketplace, and Heavy Reading (www.heavyreading.com), its prestigious market research division, will host their third annual Cable Next-Gen Broadband Strategies conference on Thursday, February 25, 2010 at the Cable Center in Denver. Cable Next-Gen Broadband Strategies -- hosted by Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Alan Breznick, Light Reading Cable Site Editor Jeff Baumgartner, and Heavy Reading Contributing Analyst Craig Leddy -- will take a comprehensive look at the cable industry's plans to deploy powerful Docsis 3.0 wideband technology, delve into wireless broadband, and develop such new fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) architectures as Radio Frequency Over Glass (RFOG) and Passive Optical Networks (PONs).
The Cable Next-Gen Broadband Strategies conference will feature morning keynote speaker Jorge D. Salinger, VP of Access Architecture for Comcast, who will describe a new access architecture for the cable delivery of broadband and video signals. The conference will also feature a joint afternoon keynote session with Peter Percosan, CTO of Cable Europe Labs, and Timothy J. Burke, VP of Strategic Technology for Liberty Global, who will outline the aggressive efforts by European, Asian, and other MSOs to deploy Docsis 3.0 services across the planet.
"This should be the most comprehensive conference yet on the cable industry's next-gen broadband plans and ambitions," Breznick said. "With our stellar lineup of speakers, we expect to break some news and dig deeper into cable's broadband progress and challenges."
Other featured speakers will include: Paul Brooks, Director of Network Engineering at Time Warner Cable; Jeff Finkelstein, Director of Network Architecture at Cox Communications; Saifur Rahman, Distinguished Engineer at Comcast Cable; Chris Bastian, Executive Director of Network Architecture at Comcast Cable; Matt Schmitt, Director of Docsis Specifications at CableLabs; Doug Jones, VP of Access Technologies at Comcast Cable; Eamon O'Leary, VP of Engineering & Operations at Clearwire; Pragash Pillai, Senior VP of Engineering & Technology at Bresnan Communications; Peter Roberts, VP of Sales Strategy & Development at Starz Entertainment; Alan Tschirner, VP, Technology at NCTC; Joseph Jensen, Executive VP & CTO at Buckeye CableSystems; and Dean Stoneback, Co-Chairman of SCTE IPS Working Group 5.
Speakers from sponsoring companies will also be presenting. The event's nine sponsors include: Platinum Sponsors Arris and Motorola; Gold Sponsors Aurora Networks, BigBand Networks, CommScope, Hitachi, and JDSU; and Silver Sponsors Alloptic and Calix. More than 130 cable and telecom executives are expected to attend the conference on Thursday at the Cable Center in Denver.
Registration for press and analysts is free. To register for Cable Next-Gen Broadband Strategies, please visit: www.lightreading.com/cabledenver.
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