SCTE® LiveLearning for Professionals Webinar™ Series: Boosting the Upstream

After decades of focusing mainly on expanding their downstream spectrum, cable operators are now seeking to expand their upstream capacity, thanks largely to changes wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. With heavier loads on their networks from video conferencing, online gaming, work-from-home and other bandwidth-intensive applications, operators are pursuing both short and long-term strategies to boost their upstream capacity. These measures include deploying lower-gain amplifiers, executing mid-splits and high-splits, and extending plant spectrum to 1.8 GHz and possibly beyond.

How are cablecos carrying out these moves? What’s working and what isn’t? Which spectrum expansion options are proving to be most promising? What are the biggest hurdles to overcome? In this webinar, we will explore the upstream expansion options.

Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading

August 15, 2024

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Date: Aug 15, 2024

Time: 12:00 EDT

Duration: 1 Hr

Speakers:

Alan BreznickCable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading

Alan covers the cable, fiber, broadband, and IP video markets for Heavy Reading. In particular, he tracks new cable, broadband, and video technologies and standards, such as DOCSIS 4.0, FTTP, DAA, XGS-PON, 10G EPON, streaming video, network virtualization, business services, Wi-Fi 6, and ATSC 3.0.


With a strong background in both business journalism and technology research, Alan has covered the cable, telecom, broadband, media, and consumer electronics markets as an editor and analyst for more than 30 years, including the past 17 years for Light and Heavy Reading. A New York City native, Alan is now based in Ontario, Canada.

About the Author(s)

Alan Breznick

Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading

Alan Breznick is a business editor and research analyst who has tracked the cable, broadband and video markets like an over-bred bloodhound for more than 20 years.

As a senior analyst at Light Reading's research arm, Heavy Reading, for six years, Alan authored numerous reports, columns, white papers and case studies, moderated dozens of webinars, and organized and hosted more than 15 -- count 'em --regional conferences on cable, broadband and IPTV technology topics. And all this while maintaining a summer job as an ostrich wrangler.

Before that, he was the founding editor of Light Reading Cable, transforming a monthly newsletter into a daily website. Prior to joining Light Reading, Alan was a broadband analyst for Kinetic Strategies and a contributing analyst for One Touch Intelligence.

He is based in the Toronto area, though is New York born and bred. Just ask, and he will take you on a power-walking tour of Manhattan, pointing out the tourist hotspots and the places that make up his personal timeline: The bench where he smoked his first pipe; the alley where he won his first fist fight. That kind of thing.

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