2008 NCTA Technical Papers™
This year more than 30 leading broadband experts have been selected to author the 2008 NCTA Technical Papers and to lead this year’s technical sessions at Cable Show '08. Authors presented highlights of their papers in one of seven technical sessions on topics ranging from advanced advertising to next generation network architecture.
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2008 NCTA Technical Papers Sessions
The topics and papers were selected by the 2008 Technical Papers Subcommittee headed by Dan Pike of GCI Cable and Entertainment.
- TV Advertising 2.0: Merging the Mediums: Re-engineering cable advertising delivery platforms and processes to support new forms of advanced advertising is among the most active technology endeavors in the industry today. Here, a panel of digital media and cable engineering strategists talks about leading work under way to produce new advertising distribution possibilities that marry the persuasive appeal of television with the targeting and measurability attributes associated with online advertising.
- Expansion Plan: Where Bandwidth Goes from Here: Leveraging inherent qualities of cable HFC networks to deliver greater bandwidth throughput remains an industry focal point - and an important means of achieving competitive superiority. At this Technical Session, you'll hear from a panel of thought leaders who are devising new approaches for increasing bandwidth to support a range of digital media applications ranging from broadband video to hundreds of high-definition TV streams.
- Special Delivery: Strategies and Architectures for Infinite Content: What you want, whenever you want it. That's the "Infinite Content" mantra. Achieving it demands a wholesale rethinking of techniques for ingesting, storing and delivering content. At this provocative Technical Session, selected authors share breakthrough ideas for bringing scale and sustainability to the Infinite Content proposition, with attention devoted to the economic, strategic and engineering considerations that undergird it.
- Pipe Dreams: Managing Content in the New Digital Media Ecosystem: Solutions for managing content distribution and security in a digital media world are more important than ever, given the rapid transformation of consumer consumption patterns associated with video, music and more. Here, new approaches for making content available seamlessly across multiple networks - wireline and wireless - are shared in a panel that's as timely as it is topical.
- Bit Parts: New Approaches for Managing Video Encoding: Cracking the code on more efficient compression and traffic-management technologies is the province of a Technical Session that unites key strategists in the video encoding space. The interplay between MPEG-4 and cable's switched digital video migration is just one of the themes of this Technical Session, which also considers video Quality of Service and its implications for business and technology planning.
- On the Move: Technology Enhancements for Mobile Content Delivery: What's the right approach for distributing video in the brave new world of media mobility? The answers might be tucked somewhere between IP Multimedia Subsystem, Femtocells and/or unicast transmission. All three - and more - get consideration and evaluation as a panel of technology strategists shares new ideas about unlocking the potential of mobile content distribution.
- Guiding Light: Network Evolution, Optical and Beyond: More than 20 years after the widespread introduction of optical fiber technology into cable infrastructure, the technology continues to surprise and amaze with its ability to embrace the future. Now, as MSOs achieve new performance and scalability from national backbone networks and residential optical networks alike, there's more to talk about than ever. This Technical Session considers new optical architectures and alternatives that are emerging to support cable for decades to come.
