| Vol. 17, No. 1 - January/February 2005 | ||
CableLabs® Winter Conference ’05 Sets Attendance Record with 11% Growth |
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CableLabs®’ annual winter conference set its fourth consecutive attendance record, registering another double digit increase over the prior year. The 2005 event, held February 27 to March 2 in Westminster, Colorado, drew 700 attendees, compared with about 630 in 2004 when the event was held in Philadelphia. Since 2001, winter conference attendance has risen from 300 participants at a steady double digit percentage increase to 700 this year. In addition to plenaries, concurrent track sessions and roundtables, the event was accompanied by 60 companies that offered technology demonstrations. The next CableLabs conferences: Summer Conference 2005, August 13–17 at Keystone, Colorado, Resort and Conference Center; and Winter Conference 2006, February 26–March 1, The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs. The 2005 Winter Conference began February 28 with concurrent track sessions. One track started with “OCAP™—Update and What’s Next”, with moderator Frank Sandoval, Director, OCAP Specifications, CableLabs. Speakers: Steve Calzone, iTV Systems Engineer, Applications, Cox Communications; Jean-Pol Zundel, Chief Software Architect, Comcast; George Sarosi, Principal OpenCable Software Architect, Time Warner Cable; and Craig Smith-Peters, Manager, Advanced Technology and Standards, Cox Communications. The other track session was “M-CMTS Spec Development: Divide and Concur” with John Treece Sr. Director, Access Networks, Comcast as moderator. Speakers: Saifur Rahman, Sr. Manager, Advanced Engineering, Comcast; Doug Jones, Chief Architect, YAS Broadband Ventures; and John Coppola, Director - DOCSIS Technology and Engineering, Cox Communications. The next pair of sessions included “New Technologies for the Commercial Services Market”, moderated by Dr. Jerry Bennington, Executive Consultant to CableLabs. Speakers: Mark Wyman, Director of Technology and Operations, Commercial Services, Time Warner Cable; Joe Jensen, Executive Vice President - Chief Technical Officer, Buckeye Cable; and Dan Estes, Manager, Telephony Access & Transport Engineering Group, Cox Communications. Paired with that session was a panel entitled “Crowded Video Space: IPTV Is Coming,” moderated by Joe Weber, Director, Digital Video Platforms, Strategic Assessment, CableLabs. Speakers: John Hildebrand, Vice President of Multimedia Engineering, Cox Communications and Mike Deller, Engineering Manager - Broadband Facilities, Comporium Communications. The rest of the morning was occupied by general sessions. First was “Washington Insider” moderated by Dan Brenner, Senior Vice President, Law and Regulatory Policy, National Cable & Telecommunications Association. Speakers: Jim Casserly, Partner, Willkie, Farr & Gallagher; Steve Teplitz, Time Warner Cable; and Jeffrey Sinsheimer, Vice President, Law and Public Policy, California Cable & Telecommunications Association. The morning concluded with a general session “Analyzing the Business,” moderated by Gary Lauder, Managing Partner, Lauder Partners LLC. Speakers: Craig Moffett, Vice President and Senior Analyst, U.S. Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Sanford C Bernstein; Rich Bilotti, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley; and Doug Shapiro, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst, Banc of America Securities, LLC.  Analyzing the Business panel members included (from left) Gary Lauder, Managing Partner, Lauder Partners LLC (moderator); Doug Shapiro, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst, Banc of America Securities, LLC; Rich Bilotti, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley; and Craig Moffett, Vice President and Senior Analyst, U.S. Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Sanford C Bernstein. The afternoon resumed with track sessions. “Just Between Us: IP Services Peering Technologies,” moderated by Jean-François Mulé, Vice President of IP Technologies and Services, Advanced Network Systems, CableLabs. Speakers: John Leddy, Comcast; Doug Semon, Vice President, Technologies and Standards, Time Warner Cable; and Jack Burton, Director of Systems Engineering, Cablevision Systems. The concurrent session was “DSG Convergence of Data and Video,” moderated by Ralph Brown, CableLabs CTO. Speakers: Emery Weber, Principal Engineer, Advanced Video and Media Engineering, Comcast; Jorge Salinger, President, Consulting Division YAS Broadband Ventures, LLC; and Kenneth Gould, Director, Consumer Technology Development, Advanced Engineering Group, Time Warner Cable. Monday concluded with concurrent sessions. One was entitled “70% of Our Data is Used for WHAT?” and featured Dr. Terry Shaw, Director, Network Systems, Strategic Assessment, CableLabs as moderator. Speakers: Mark Ishikawa, CEO, Bay TSP; Justin Chapweske, Founder and CEO, Onion Networks; and Ron Bouganim, Vice President, Corporate Development, Trymedia Systems. Paired up with a session entitled “SIP is coming, Look Busy!” and was moderated by Ed Miller, Vice President of Advanced Network Systems, CableLabs. Speakers: Eric Rosenfeld, Director, PacketCable Architecture, CableLabs; Jason Gaedtke, Director of SIP and PCMM Architectures, Comcast National Communications Engineering; and Lorenz Glatz, SVP Network and Systems Design & Architecture, UGC Europe. Tuesday's sessions began with concurrent sessions also. One was “Cable To Go—Cable Integration with Wireless Networks” and was moderated by Glenn Russell, Director, Multimedia Applications, Advanced Network Systems, CableLabs. Speakers: Mimi Thigpen, Vice President of Strategy, Cox Communications; Mike Lee, Vice President, Strategy and Development, Rogers Cable Communications, and Liliane Zreik, VP Strategy & Development, Voice, Time Warner Cable. The other kick off session was “One-Way Consumer Electronics Deployment” and was moderated by Charlie Kennamer, Vice President Engineering, Standards & Industry Affairs, Comcast. Speakers: Bob Blackburn, Director, Advanced Video Engineering & Development, Adelphia Communications; Mark Gathen, Manager of Video Strategy and Product Development, Cox Communications; Paul Conway, Time Warner Cable and Don Watson, Manager-Test and Implementation, Advanced Engineering-Digital Video, Charter Communications. The next set of concurrent track sessions included “Securing the Converged Network,” moderated by Oscar Marcia, Vice President of Security, CableLabs. Speakers: Jeff Hartley, Director of Security and Abuse, Cox Communications; Jorge Nieves, Manager of Network Security Engineering, Comcast IP Services; and Lorenz Glatz, Senior Vice President, Network and Systems Design & Architecture, UGC Europe. The other track session at this time was “MSO Lessons Learned—Technical Solutions for Increasing Sales” and was moderated by Jenifer Cistola, Vice President of Go2Broadband, CableLabs. Speakers: Mark Guberman, Director of Retail and E-commerce Marketing, Charter Communications; Leslie Russell, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Comcast Media Center; and Mike Lee, Vice President, Strategy and Development, Rogers Cable Communications. A general session followed: “How Competition is Driving Cable Innovation—Blazing New Trails through Products and Sales Channels,” moderated by Char Beales, President and CEO of Cable Telecommunications and Marketing Association (CTAM). Speakers: Debbie Siek, Vice President, Customer Care, Cox Communications; Robert Wharton, Senior Partner, Sand Cherry Associates; and Tom Cullen, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Charter Communications.
How Competition is Driving Cable Innovation—Blazing New Trails through Products and Sales Channels panel included (from left) Robert Wharton, Senior Partner, Sand Cherry Associates; Debbie Siek, Vice President, Customer Care, Cox Communications; Tom Cullen, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Charter Communications, and Char Beales, President and CEO of Cable Telecommunications and Marketing Association. The afternoon track sessions kicked off with “eTV—What Is It and What Can It Do For You?” which was moderated by Arthur Orduña, Advance Newhouse. Speakers: Jean-Pol Zundel, Chief Software Architect, Comcast; Vince Groff, Director, ITV Product Development, Cox Communications; and John Callahan, Time Warner Cable. The concurrent session was “Do You Feel the Need for Speed?” and was moderated by Jiong Gong, Senior Advisor, Strategic Assessment, CableLabs. Speakers: Martin McCafferty, SVP Network & Capacity Planning, UGC; Earl Langenberg, J-COM; Benoit Legault, VP, Marketing, Ellacoya Networks, and Duncan Whitney, Senior Manager, Internet Services, GCI. Final track sessions were “Wireline vs. Wireless: Whose “Law” Will Prevail?” moderated by David Reed, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of CableLabs. Speakers: Bob Scott, Director, Business Strategy, Scientific-Atlanta; Phil Edholm, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Network Architecture, Nortel Networks Enterprise Networks; and Tony Werner, Chief Technical Officer, Liberty Media. The conference concluded with six roundtables:
Some of the overflow crowd at the 2005 CableLabs winter conference take advantage There also were 60 companies with demonstrations in association with the conference. These companies included Acme Packet, Advanced Digital Broadcast, Arroyo Video Solutions, ATI Technologies Inc., Aurora Networks Inc.; Auspice Corp., BigBand Networks, Broadbus, Broadcom Corp.; CableMatrix Technologies, Camiant, C-Cor, Cedar Point Communications, Cisco Systems, ComMATCH, Wavetone Technologies, Dotcast, Ellacoya Networks Inc.; Entropic Communications, ExtendMedia, F-Secure Corp.; Goldpocket Interactive, Harmonic, Inc.; ICTV Inc.; Incognito Software, Integra5 Communications, IP Unity Corp.; Irdeto Access, Inc.; Juniper Networks, LG Electronics, Media Cell, Motorola, Nagravision, NDS Americas, Net Insight, NetNumber, Netrake, Neustar, Inc.; Next Generation Broadband, Nortel, Nuera, Openwave Systems, Osmosys, Promptlink Communications, Propagate Networks, Radvision, Samsung, Sandvine, Sigma Systems, Softel—USA, Sony, Telcordia, Terayon, Tropic Networks, TTA, Unisoft, Vector Max, Visage Mobile, and Xtend Networks.
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