EDITORial
Editor’s Letter
On page 14 we talk to Matt Tully whom many of you will know about his experiences in the industry, his advice to newcomers and what he gets out of his SCTE Membership. Would you like to be featured in our Member Focus section? Drop me a line – it would be great to hear from you. Rather impulsively I changed my own ISP last month so took the opportunity of chronicling the customer journey for a change - not an area we usually cover in a B2B journal but it was fun to do. You can read all about my experience with Community Broadband on page 68. Big thanks to the team at Community Fibre for a great job and for being such good sports! There are products reviewed in this issue from Bridge Technologies and Asperitas on page 120, and some excellent thought leadership from IQGEO, Kontron, Witbe, Qwilt and QRFY covering all kinds of topics. Plenty to get your teeth into as you make your way to either Connected Britain or IBC. Finally I’ve spent a lot of time interviewing some big names for this issue and it’s been a great experience – when people ask I always tell them how very friendly this industry is, it never fails to amaze me. You make it very easy for me to navigate and it is all so enjoyable. In this issue you’ll hear from Alper Turken, CEO of Netceed, Jason Kelly, COO at Rincon, Peter Rampling, CCO of Community Fibre and Steve Wintle, Head of CNI at Abloy. Thank you all for your time.
A bumper issue for you as we go ‘back to school’ for the September issue, and I hope you all had a great summer. We are delighted to be partnering with both Connected Britain and IBC this year as Official Magazine Partners so you’ll see two different covers reflecting those partnerships as a result. Both shows are such important industry events and we want to give them both the exposure they – and you, the participants – deserve, so you’ll find dedicated sections for each in the Industry Events section. We are also involved at Connected Britain with the Start Up Zone, which you can read more about in our News Section on page 4, and you’ll see us in action at the show itself on September 11-12, amplifying the noise all this innovation is making across our sector. IBC promises to be bigger and better than ever and the 12 page section dedicated to the show details of the floorplan, the new IBC AI Tech Zone and Talent Programme as well as the IBC Innovation Awards and Accelerators to make your experience easier while walking through the halls and getting your steps up! Themes covered in this issue include HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding), which you can read all about on page 76 thanks to our good friends at Interdigital and Futuresource for their cooperation here. You’ll also read about Quantum Internet, something that will be a huge game changer and has just inched closer to becoming a reality (page 58), satellite enhanced edge delivery (page 86) and chromatic dispersion and polarisation, which you can read about in our Spotlight section on page 96. Thanks to our Corporate Members EXFO for their insight. The Long Read in this issue focuses on the holy grail of customer service and its increasing importance as the industry pivots from network roll out to service provider. Thanks to everyone I spoke to for their valued contributions; it was a fascinating journey, writing this one. You can read about that on page 16.
Melissa Cogavin Managing Editor SCTE ® , Society for Broadband Professionals melissa@theSCTE.eu www.theSCTE.eu
So ‘back to school’ it is – enjoy the shows, enjoy this issue!
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Volume 46 No.3 September 2024
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