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Addressing Key Challenges in Effective Test Automation As Applied to Multi-Screen Digital TV

2013-04-17 00:00:00.0

From: Then, now and where to? The Society for Broadband Professionals Spring Lecture Meeting 2013, 17 April 2013, London, UK

Digital TV serice providers, both incumbent and new, are in a race to deliver compelling new multi-screen services to their customers. To deliver these services to thier customers. To deliver these services they are developing ever more complex delievery platforms from multi-vendor head-end installations through to multiple devices in the living rooms of consumers. As the system engineering complexity of these platforms have risen so, too has the demand to apply automation to the challenge of verifying their operation to reduce time to market and improve quality.
This presentation examines some of the key challenges in effectively applying automation to this fastmoving area and the types of technology that are being deployed to meet these challenges. It will discuss the relative merits of deterministic reference based video quality MOS measurement. versus non-reference perceptual measurements; internal 'white box' development testing versus 'blackbox' production system testing, and ways to accelerate test case development without introducing undue brittleness into the reliability of the automated test environment.
TV continues to play a huge role in the daily media consumption diet of most people worldwide. According iDate Research, the number of TV households worldwide will grow by almost 10% to reach 1.502 billion in 2016. There are huge changes underway in the services being delivered and the technology used to deliver them to this growing viewer base. This presents us with many interesting new technical challenges still to be overcome.

Coexistence of LTE 800/Cable Services - A Briefing

2013-04-17 00:00:00.0

From: Then, now and where to? The Society for Broadband Professionals Spring Lecture Meeting 2013, 17 April 2013, London, UK

The frequency situation from mobile services will be presented as will the situation on Downlink/Uplink with the cable channels. Two short videos will be played depicting the usage of a LTE UE and the impact to cable services. Discussions on possible future measurements and impact will also be held.

Enigma Code Cracking

2013-04-17 00:00:00.0

From: Then, now and where to? The Society for Broadband Professionals Spring Lecture Meeting 2013, 17 April 2013, London, UK

In preparation for the SCTE's Summer lecture meeting at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, a special presentation will be given by Alan Watson on wartime operations and the cracking of the Enigma Code at Bletchley Park.

High Speed Broadband in Rural Communities (DSL Rings)

2013-04-17 00:00:00.0

From: Then, now and where to? The Society for Broadband Professionals Spring Lecture Meeting 2013, 17 April 2013, London, UK

People living and working in rural communities frequently find it challenging to access superfast broadband.
Stephen Cooke, President and CTO for Genesis Technical Systems, will discuss a systems engineering approach to using DSL Acceleration techniques to solve these challenges. Stephen will talk about delivering very high speed broadband to rural locations, and present the technology of a new and economical solution, DSL Rings is a patented, award winning technology that delivers very high speed broadband, up to 400 Mb/s, over existing copper telecommunications networks, where distance from the exchange can often be a limiting factor in deploying traditional broadband solutions.

Moving Customers to 21st Century Service

2013-04-17 00:00:00.0

From: Then, now and where to? The Society for Broadband Professionals Spring Lecture Meeting 2013, 17 April 2013, London, UK

The best medium for serving customers with video, voice and data in the late 20th century was HFC. FTTH is a newer and better technology, and is the service medium of this century. One of the impediments to implementing it, however, is the installed base of equipment managed by DOCSIS-based management systems. It is not reasonable to convert all of an HFC system to FTTH at one instance. Rather, the likely scenario will be to build system additions and to do major overhauls with FTTH, whilst continuing to operate adequate existing HFC systems. This dictates the use of a common management platform, and since DOCSIS was there first, it is logical that new FTTH systems conform to the DOCSIS management methods.
Accordingly, US CableLabs have undertaken to define a way to implement DOCSIS management of EPON FTTH systems. This paper describes the output of that work to-date, and discusses what else is necessary to achieve common management of DOCSIS and EPON systems. We shall also discuss architectural variations in FTTH systems, which can maximise the use of existing fiber, while minimising the amount of new fiber needed. By using a common management system, services may be migrated over time to the newer technology, without customer disruption and without re-training of personnel.

Standards Update

2013-04-17 00:00:00.0

From: Then, now and where to? The Society for Broadband Professionals Spring Lecture Meeting 2013, 17 April 2013, London, UK

As Cable Operators face the rising threat from Telecom companies deplying VDSL and FTTX technologies, they have responded with the development of a new DOCSIS specfication designed specifically to compete in this market.
Driven by CableLabs and the MSO and vendor community, the new standard will combine advanced modulation and line coding scemes together with a significant step-up in upstream spectrum, delivering Gbps data rates in both downstream and upstream and upstream directions. This lecture provides an overview of the key elements of the DOCSIS 3.1 specification as well as an update on standards development.

An overview of how wireless networks in buildings are changing the way users interact with their environment

2013-02-08 00:00:00.0

From: Wireless Comms in Buildings, Session 3 - New services in wireless enhanced buildings, 08 February 2013, IET London: Savoy Place, UK

In addition to the latest developments in the research for in-door communications, the event will feature practical examples and case studies to demonstrate new services inside wireless enhanced buildings. You will hear an update on the progress in the work on electromagnetic interference and the modelling of EM in-building propagation. Other topics covered will include Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS) for the design of wireless friendly buildings.
The seminar is organised jointly with Wireless Friendly Buildings Forum (WFBF) and CIBSE Intelligent Buildings Group

Case study 1 - Real time location services for healthcare

2013-02-08 00:00:00.0

From: Wireless Comms in Buildings, Session 3 - New services in wireless enhanced buildings, 08 February 2013, IET London: Savoy Place, UK

Case study 2 - Wireless applications in the educational environment

2013-02-08 00:00:00.0

From: Wireless Comms in Buildings, Session 3 - New services in wireless enhanced buildings, 08 February 2013, IET London: Savoy Place, UK

Case study 3 - Wireless applications in the hospitality sector

2013-02-08 00:00:00.0

From: Wireless Comms in Buildings, Session 3 - New services in wireless enhanced buildings, 08 February 2013, IET London: Savoy Place, UK