CableLabs® Winter Conference 2003
Grows 30% to Record Attendance

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The 14th annual CableLabs® Winter Conference took place February 10-12, 2003, in Broomfield, Colorado, gaining about a 30% increase in attendance over winter conference 2002 to a total of about 530 people. It was CableLabs largest conference to date. The conference also featured 39 demonstrations of new technologies and of implementations of work done by CableLabs projects.

Industry technology analyst, Leslie Ellis, began the conference with an interview with Insight Communications Presidentand COO Kim Kelly about the current state of the cable industry. A political update session followed, moderated by Dan Brenner, Senior Vice President, Law & Regulatory Policy for the NCTA. Panelists were Frank Lloyd, Partner, at Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo; Steven Teplitz, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, of AOL Time Warner; and Joe Waz, Vice President, External Affairs and Public Policy Counsel, of Comcast Corporation.

The morning concluded with another one-on-one interview session, during which Mark Greenberg, Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager from Inveso talked with Tom Rutledge, President of Cablevision Systems Corp. about the past, present, and future of cable.

Leslie Ellis, an industry analyst, and Kim Kelly, President and CEO, Insight Communications,
talk about the many broadband services available in the marketplace.

During the afternoon, the conference broke into concurrent track sessions. JD Burke, System Integration Engineer, OCAP™ End-to-End, CableLabs, led a panel called OCAP™ End-to-End: Is Your End Cover? with speakers Mike Hayashi, Senior Vice President Advanced Engineering & Subscriber Technology, Time Warner Cable; Kevin Leddy, Senior Vice President Strategy and Development, Time Warner Cable; and Tim Wahlers, President & CEO, Videom Corp. Jorge Salinger, VP, Ventures, YAS Broadband Ventures, LLC moderated a session entitled Truth Can Be Stranger than Fiction: Deploying IP Services that included participants John Coppola, Manager: DOCSIS™ Technology, Cox Communications, Inc.; Ken Gould, Director Consumer Technology Development, Advanced Engineering Group, Time Warner Cable, and John Treece, Director, Broadband Network Technologies, Comcast Cable Communications.

The mid-afternoon panels included presentations about Digital Rights Management: Not Just a Good Idea…It's the Law led by Jud Cary, Assistant General Counsel, CableLabs. Sandra Aistars, Counsel on Intellectual Property, AOL Time Warner; Paul Glist, Partner, Cole, Raywid & Braverman; and Bruce Turnbull, Partner, Trade Practices & Regulatory Law, Weil, Goshal & Manges, also participated on the panel. At the same time, JP Singh, Director, E-Commerce, CableLabs, moderated a session called Go2Retail Using Go2Broadband(SM) that featured Steve Asbell, Manager, Retail Business Development, Cox Communications, Inc.; Jim Doolittle, Director Sales Channel Development, Time Warner Cable; and Chris Caffrey, Vice President, Retail Sales, Comcast Online.

Frank Lloyd, Mintz, Levin & Cohen, Joe Waz, Comcast Corporation, Steve Teplitz, AOL Time Warner, and Dan Brenner, NCTA, discuss how recent political activities are impacting the evolution of cable services.

The conference's first day concluded with panels about security and home networking. Oscar Marcia, Chief Security Architect, CableLabs, led a session called Cable Networks Under Siege: Securing Your Systems with speakers Bruce Kaalund, Director Network Security, Comcast IP Services; Israel Rosencrantz, Senior Member of the Technical Staff, AT&T; and Eric Rosenfeld, Security Architect, CableLabs. Doug Jones, Network Architect, YAS Broadband, LLC, moderated a concurrent session entitled Opportunities Exist: New Home Networking Services on Your Old DOCSIS™ Back Office which featured speakers Mark Francisco, Director Engineer Home Services, Comcast New Media Development; Mike Giobbi, Vice President New Technologies, Armstrong Cable Services; and Remi Rieger, Director Product Development, Time Warner Cable.

Day two of the conference started with a general session about Wall Street and its views on the financial landscape for cable and the competition. Gary Lauder, Managing Partner of Lauder Partners, moderated the session that included Niraj Gupta, Managing Director, Salomon Smith Barney and Jessica Reif Cohen, Managing Director, Securities Research & Economics, Merrill Lynch.

Tom Rutledge, Cablevision Systems, and Mark Greenberg, Invesco Funds, review the impact that business requirements and technology have on today's bottom line.

The conference then broke down into a series of concurrent sessions:

1. The Low Down on High-Def TV moderated by Mark Meyer, Project Director, Systems Integration. Speakers were: Craig Cuttner, Vice President Technology, HBO, Inc., Charlie Kennamer, VP Digital Engineering, Comcast Cable Communications, and Lynne Elander, VP, Video Product Development, Cox Communications.
2. Prepping Your Network for Voice, moderated by Jean-Francois Mule, Director, PacketCable Architecture. Speakers were: Harry Hartley, Senior Director, SW Systems, Time Warner Cable; Chris Williams, Senior Technology Engineer, Strategic Development, Time Warner Cable, and Rich Woundy, Executive Director, Cross-Service Advanced Engineering, Comcast Cable Communications.

Later in the morning, the panels continued with:

1. Cutting the Cable: New Horizons for Cable Data Services led by David Waks, Co-founder, System Dynamics. Speakers were: Kyle Ackerman, CEO & Founder, Xtratyme Technologies; Bob Donnelly, Director, Internet and Data Services, AT&T; and Nitin Shah, Chief Strategy Officer, ArrrayCom.
2. Varieties of VOD: Who is Doing What? led by Ralph Brown, Vice President, Chief Software Architect, CableLabs. Speakers were: Mark Hess, Vice President Digital Television, Comcast Cable Communications; John Hildebrand, Vice President, of Multimedia Technology and Corporate Officer, Cox Communications, Inc.; and Mike LaJoie, Executive Vice President, Advanced Technology, Time Warner Cable.

Gary Lauder, Lauder Partners, Niraj Gupta, Salomon Smith Barney, and Jessica Reif Cohen, Merril Lynch Global Securities discuss how the current economy and competion will affect the cable industry.

During the afternoon, the concurrent sessions included:

1. CPE Convergence: Perfecting the Package, moderated by Mike Hayes, Director of Interops, CableLabs. Speakers were: Jeff Austin, Director, Product Engineering, Comcast Online; Mark Bell, Product Development Manager, Cox Communications, Inc.; and Doug Semon, Vice President Technologies and Standards, Time Warner Cable.
2. Metadata in Your Headend moderated by Yasser Syed, Project Manager, Emerging Digital Video Technologies, CableLabs. Speakers were: Neville Black, Director, Digital Systems Design & Development, Comcast Cable Communications; Joe Buehl, Principal Software Architect, MystroTV; and Craig Cuttner, Vice President, Technology, HBO, Inc.

The conference concluded with panels about:

1. Interactive Games, Video Products, and the PacketCable™ Network led by Jason Gaedtke, Software Architect, PacketCable™. Speakers included: Franklyn Athias, Vice President Data Network Engineering, Comcast Cable Communications; Mike Lee, Vice President Product Development, Rogers Cable; and Ray Starbird, Product Development Manager, Cox Communications, Inc.
2. The New "New Thing": Cable and New Consumer Electronics Products led by David Broberg, Director, OpenCable™ Requirements. Speakers were: Michael Collette, Chief Executive Officer, Ucentric Systems; Paul Thomsen, Director, Digital Network Home Network Group, Hitachi Home Electronics (America) Inc.; and Paul Wolf, Senior Architect and Product Manager, CE Products, Silicon Image.

The conference also included demonstrations from the following companies: ADC, American Power Conversation (APC), Alopa/Arris, ATI Technologies, BigBand Networks, Inc.; BusinessEdge Solutions; Cedar Point Communications; Ceon Corp.; Cisco Systems; Concurrent Computer Corp.; Conexant Systems; Core Networks; Digeo, Edaptivity.com, Inc.; Entregate; Inc.; Gallery IP; Gist; Harmonic; Hewlett Packard; ICTV; Incognito Software; Integra5 Communications; Interrawave, Inc.; JacobsRimmel, Ltd.; Kasenna, Inc.; Liberate Technologies; LinkSys; Motion Media; Motorola; Nuera Communications; SeaChange International; Silicon Image; Stargus, Inc.; Syndeo Corp.; SMC Networks; Terayon; Texas Instruments; Ucentric Systems; and Visionetics.

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