Motorola was Orlando’s main attraction at the 2012 SCTE Cable-Tec Expo last week. Sorry, Disney World.
In case you missed it, let’s start with a video of Marwan Fawaz and Matt Bell, our senior execs, talking about Motorola’s influence on the cable industry’s IP Transformation.
One of the points they highlighted is our strength in video.
The headliner for that, and star of the show, was the new GT-3 ABR transcoder, which Broadband Technology Report, CED Magazine and IPTV News called out for the way it screams through data to let cable operators capitalize on multi-screen and get in front of new services like 4K.
Another point was how we’re impacting future of the cable industry.
As you know, a big part of that has to do with bandwidth. Motorola’s been working the angles for the smart, simple connected home, and our recent breakthrough with SCDMA (a DOCSIS technology) involved widening cable networks’ usable spectrum to tap elusive upstream bandwidth for the connected home.
Rapid TV News reported on our SCDMA deployment at Cablevision Mexico, and Light Reading called us “the main pioneer of this approach to cable upstream.” Thanks, Light Reading.
The future of the cable industry wouldn’t be complete without multi-screen, so we’re taking you back to Marwan at IBC for some perspective how some of the discussions there influenced what we saw at SCTE.
Marwan talked about how the Future of TV has a lot to do with speed and connectivity. At SCTE, we saw speed addressed with GT-3, and EDGE Manager handled the connectivity component.
We also announced that our EDGE Manager is Time Warner Cable’s new platform of choice for device management. Advanced Television took notice, and Light Reading said that it “sets a high bar for device management and delivers an advantage in multi-screen deployments.” We couldn’t agree more.
On to speaking…
Our brilliant technologists were out in force at SCTE, laying down the knowledge and flying the Motorola colors at seven separate sessions. If we were to randomly choose among these stars in the sky, we might select John Ulm’s talk from “The bandwidth Hunger Games” track, which you can read about in CED Magazine.
And lastly, our here’s the final tally on recognition and awards:
- Jack Moran was named chair of a new SCTE working group for DOCSIS 3.1, as reported by Multichannel News and FierceCable.
- Dean Stoneback received the SCTE Excellence in Standards Award for 2012, as seen in FierceCable, Light Reading, and Multichannel News.
- Dr. Robert Howald was conferred one of Communications Technology’s highest honors as an inductee to the CT Hall of Fame, Class of 2012 for “unique contributions to voice, video, and data.”
- And Communications Technology’s Platinum Awards competition, recognized several Motorola products, including Medios DreamGallery, winner of the Cloud Software for Providers category, and APEX3000, 4Home Connected Gateway and SecureMedia which took home honorable mentions.
Congratulations to the teams behind our award-winning products. And thanks to all our employees who represented Motorola at SCTE and to everyone who dropped by to see our speakers and our products.
If you were at the show, please share your favorite moment in the comments!
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