CableLabs MSO & Vendor Face-to-Face Meeting Presentations
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Business Services
Business Services represent a significant revenue opportunity for cable operators. CableLabs has published a number of specifications (T1/E1 Emulation and Layer-2 VPN for DOCSIS) as well as issued an RFP for multi-line PacketCable MTAs. What additional services should the cable operator consider and what technologies would be most appropriate to provide them?
Moderator: Jim Blackley, Cablevision
Andy Randall, MetaSwitch
Rick Mallon, Sigma-Systems
Will Rotch, Comverse
Andrew Audet, Juniper Networks

PacketCable 2.0—3GPP/IMS
Where stands PacketCable 2.0? The industry's service architecture for cable IP is now well defined and is better understood. This session provided a forum to discuss the service needs of the cable operator and possible approaches for migrating to the new service environment as well as how the new architecture can best be utilized to create and manage new features and application services.
Moderator: Tony Werner, Comcast
Dan Sheinbein, Nokia-Siemens
Torben Warming, Ericsson
Sri Ramachandran, NexTone
Paul Mankiewich, Alcatel-Lucent

Set-top Box Roadmap to Retail
Cable faces a July 1 mandate from the FCC on set top integration. It is beginning to deploy OCAP and it continues to pursue the next generation of security in the form of downloadable conditional access. How does all this work get completed without creating a major point of confusion for operators and for investors? How do vendors prioritize their efforts in the face of so many distractions?
Moderator: Chris Bowick, Cox
Nick Chakalos, Motorola
Michael Hawkey, ADB
Ron Pessner, Microsoft
Thomas Rhee, Samsung
Richard Strabel, Panasonic

Switched Digital Video Architectures
Cable operators have been deploying video-on-demand systems for several years and are beginning to trial switched digital video (a.k.a. switched digital broadcast) systems. Session-based video services either uni-cast VoD or multi-cast switched digital video share some common core architectural components. A challenge for the future is how these two systems are integrated. This session focused on the VoD and switched digital video architectures that can be deployed on cable systems.
Moderator: Marwan Fawaz, Charter
Kip Compton, Cisco
Joe Matarese, C-Cor
Mark Davis, Bigband Networks