SCTE® LiveLearning for Professionals Webinar™ Series: Embracing the Fiber Future

Even as the industry begins the DOCSIS 4.0 era, cable operators are increasingly placing their bets on fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) networks as the broadband platform of the future. Led by such major MSOs as Comcast, Charter, Cox and Altice USA, cablecos are briskly installing new fiber lines in all greenfield areas and some brownfield areas as well as they seek to leverage government subsidies and stave off competition from fiber-happy telcos rivals like AT&T, Verizon and Frontier.

Yet, even as they plunge more heavily into fiber builds, operators face critical questions about their network upgrade strategies, their timing and the heavy costs involved. This webinar will examine cable's embrace of fiber builds, the opportunities that FTTP offers and the technical and operational challenges that it presents for the industry.

Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading

September 19, 2024

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Date: Sep 19, 2024

Time: 12:00 EDT

Duration: 1 Hr

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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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