2008 NCTA Technical Papers(TM) Explore the Future of Cable's Broadband Technology.Cable's Top Technology Authors to be Featured in Cable Show Technical Sessions WASHINGTON Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. -- The National Cable & Telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. Association (NCTA NCTA National Cable & Telecommunications Association (fka National Cable Television Association) NCTA National Cable Television Association (now the National Cable & Telecommunications Association) ) today announced that more than 30 leading broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). experts have been selected to author the 2008 NCTA Technical Papers(TM) and to lead this year's technical sessions at The Cable Show '08, NCTA's 57th Annual Convention and International Exposition exposition or exhibition, term frequently applied to an organized public fair or display of industrial and artistic productions, designed usually to promote trade and to reflect cultural progress. , May 18-20, 2008 in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded . Showcasing works of the industry's most distinguished authors, the NCTA Technical Papers([TM]) provide cable telecommunications technologists the opportunity to express new engineering concepts and the science behind them, while preserving their presentations in print as a valuable resource for the engineering community. "The cable industry has a long and distinguished history of developing new and innovative products and services that provide value to our customers," said Dan Pike pike, in zoology pike, common name for the family Esocidae, freshwater game and food fishes of Europe, Asia, and North America. The pike, the muskellunge, and the pickerel form a small but well-known group of long, thin fishes with spineless dorsal fins, , Chief Technical Officer, GCI GCI Ground Circuit Interrupter GCI Getty Conservation Institute GCI Global Commerce Initiative GCI Green Cross International (non-profit international environmental organization) GCI Growth Competitiveness Index GCI Great Cities Institute Cable, Inc. and chair of this year's selection committee. "Every year, these writings introduce new and exciting concepts to our industry. Based on this year's strong collection, the industry is poised to see impressive developments for cable." The authors will present the highlights of their papers in one of seven technical sessions at The Cable Show '08 on topics ranging from advanced advertising to next generation network architecture, including: * TV Advertising 2.0: Merging the Mediums * Expansion Plan: Where Bandwidth Goes from Here * Special Delivery: Strategies and Architectures for Infinite Content * Safe Bet: Emerging Content Security Alternatives * Bit Parts: New Approaches for Managing Video Encoding See encode. * On the Move: Technology Enhancements for Mobile Content Delivery * Guiding Light: Network Evolution, Optical and Beyond "Each year, the caliber of the technical papers continues to improve. This year's program features an exceptional group of experts that will share their vision with the cable engineering community," said William Check, NCTA's Senior Vice President for Science and Technology. "Anyone interested in learning about the breakthrough ideas and innovative approaches that are advancing cable's technology foundation should be at the Cable Show in May." Purchase Information The NCTA Technical Papers[TM] are available for purchase. This extensive collection of published works by the industry's most distinguished technical authors has served as the cable industry's technical body of literature for nearly 50 years. Convention attendees may purchase the 2008 NCTA Technical Papers[TM] in book or CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). format at the special price of $50.00; after the show the books and CD-ROMs will be available for $75. For more information, and to order the 2008 NCTA Technical Papers[TM] (or previous volumes in the series), visit the technical papers site at www.nctatechnicalpapers.com; e-mail technicalpapers@ncta.com; or call NCTA's Department of Industry Affairs at 202-222-2430. Additional, up-to-the-minute information for The Cable Show '08 is available at www.thecableshow.com. For more information about exhibit space at The Cable Show '08, contact NCTA Convention Headquarters at 202-463-7905 or e-mail exhibitinfo@ncta.com. NCTA is the principal trade association for the U.S. cable industry, representing cable operators serving more than 90 percent of the nation's cable television households and more than 200 cable program networks. The cable industry is the nation's largest broadband provider of high-speed Internet See broadband. access after investing more than $130 billion over ten years to build a two-way interactive network with fiber optic technology. Cable companies also provide state-of-the-art digital telephone service to millions of American consumers. |
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