By Kimberly Maki – As another fall conference season approaches, I find myself looking forward not only to the conversations ahead, but also reflecting on the conversations that brought me here. One of the unexpected benefits of serving a…
By Maria Popo – A year ago, STRIKE began with industry leaders agreeing that intentional damage to broadband infrastructure is a national security and public safety problem. Today, it is advancing through a standards development proces…
By Ken Klaer – Fom the earliest cable systems to today’s intelligent, high-capacity broadband networks, our progress has been fueled by a willingness to solve complex challenges, embrace new technologies, and continuously evolve. Toda…
By Brad Hawkins and Greg Calton – Broadband service providers are entering a new data center era. AI, cloud services, video, business connectivity, mobile backhaul and low-latency applications are driving more traffic deeper into the network. That growt…
By Craig Hugueley – Think about how a typical fiber build comes together. One firm runs the market study. A design house picks it up from there. Aerial and underground go to different crews. Equipment comes from a distributor, gets staged…
By Steve Pederson – The Fiber Broadband Association and the Power & Communication Contractors Association estimate that the U.S. broadband industry needs roughly 58,000 additional construction workers and technicians between 2025 and 2032…
By Brady Volpe – This industry is built on engineering, reliability, and real-world problem solving. Many professionals have watched buzzword after buzzword pass through product roadmaps and conference agendas, digital transformation, b…
By Ron Hranac – More formally, from the operational practice SCTE 270 2021r1, Mathematics of Cable (https://account.scte.org/standards/library/catalog/scte-270-mathematics-of-cable/), the decibel is “A logarithmic-based expression of t…
By Jeff Finkelstein – The cable industry’s existential crisis has become industry conventional wisdom: fiber is superior, DOCSIS is doomed, and cable operators face inevitable decline unless they abandon their coaxial infrastructure entirely…
By Steven Harris – Reliable deployment begins with optical-budget discipline. Broadband operators should calculate the complete end-to-end loss, including fiber cable attenuation, splitters, connectors, splices, and a defined reserve marg…
By Yaniv Ben-Soussan – Speed isn’t enough. Winning subscriber loyalty depends on delivering consistent, proactive, high-quality broadband services. Broadband intelligence is redefining operations to drive better business and subscriber outcom…
By Andy Parrott – Having spent much of my career on the operator side, I understand those challenges firsthand. Delivering critical infrastructure has always required disciplined planning, accountability, and execution. What has changed…
By Stacey Slaughter – After thousands of conversations with industry leaders over the years, I’ve noticed something else. Many of the assumptions we’ve held about workforce development are changing. The organizations adapting the fastest are…
By Steven Harris – In today’s rapidly accelerating broadband deployment landscape, the conversation around network construction is undergoing a massive evolutionary shift. Driven by historic federal legislation like the $42.45 billion Bro…
By Colin Howlett – This year it is agentic AI, which is less about surfacing an anomaly than reasoning across the network with far greater context and proposing the fix. Agentic AI has the capability to change daily operations, but that i…
By Hon. Cory Gardner – AI doesn’t end in a data center. It doesn’t end at a fiber network. It certainly doesn’t end at a cell tower. It ends where people work, learn, manufacture, receive health care, and live. And overwhelmingly, that’s over…
By Diane Christman – One of the privileges of leading Syndeo Institute is having a front-row seat to the conversations shaping our industry. Throughout the year, my team and I engage with leaders across broadband, media, technology, and tel…
By Gary Bolton – For decades, the world’s information economy has thrived with knowledge workers procuring ideas and data, with growth fueled by the deployment of the Internet. Today, nationwide fiber broadband deployment and the rapid…
By Maximiliano Blumberg and Matt Polka – For generations, the cable industry’s pioneers have transformed the way people connect, communicate, and experience the world. In this thought-provoking article, Maximiliano Blumberg explores how the next era of broadba…
By Mike Regan – For cable operators, this shift introduces new requirements across access, aggregation, core, and data center networks. It also expands the definition of resilience. Network performance still matters, yet performance al…
By Louis A. Borrelli, Jr. – For years, Internet providers competed on one thing—speed. Bigger numbers, faster downloads, wider coverage. That’s not enough anymore. Customers today expect their Internet to just work. On top of that, they expect it…
By Allen Maharaj – This approach remains essential. Fiber cuts, power supply failures, software defects, and many network impairments can often be traced to a specific event or condition. Root cause analysis helps assign ownership, focus…
By Broadband Library – Where People, Policy, and Possibility Come to Life—SCTE TechExpo26