EDITORial
Editor’s Letter
The Long Read on page 30 this time delves into the complexities of digital inclusion; who is being left behind, why, what the effects are and what is being done to address it. An awful lot, as it turns out. Thanks to all the amazing people I spoke to in the writing of this piece. Technical papers are becoming more difficult to source; a reflection of the maturity of the industry no doubt, but you’ll enjoy John Nolan’s piece on page 84, ‘Internet Traffic and Humpty Dumpty’, as well as a contribution from Spirent, ‘Measuring Video Quality Using AI’. I was fortunate enough to sit down and interview our new Corporate Members Fritz!, James Saunby, Mike Gannon, Dario Betti, our friends at Nokia and Rahul Puri of STL. We welcome contributions from Phil Scott on page 8, Harmonic give us the background to their dreamy, sugarcoated stand at TechExpo (p76), Victoria D’Arcy on sustainability (p 38), Amanda Van Dyke frightens us again on rare earth minerals on page 60 and Steve Chesterman from SCCI talks us through the issues running fibre into MDUs (p68). Finally we welcome AND Digital to the Spotlight section (p100),and two of the companies we met at Connected Britain contribute to our Startup Zone on page 96. Which brings me to wishing all of you a very happy Christmas, enjoy your downtime over the festive period and have a very peaceful and prosperous new year!
Last issue of 2025 – that went quickly didn’t it? By now we are all a bit jaded and looking forward to a rest over Christmas. It’s been a frantic few months and usually this issue reflects a quiet phase the industry experiences generally. Not this time, you’re in for a treat. Grab a mince pie, put the kettle on. In October our SCTE® Presents: TV to IP – The Capacity Challenge was a big success and we have an extensive, twelve-page feature on page 10 detailing the topics covered, questions raised and highlights from the day. We are also busy working on our next event, SCTE® Presents: Testing & Measurement, taking place on January 22 2026 at One Great George Street in London. More on that on page 21, don’t leave it too late as places are limited and this event will be popular. You’ll see some news from us on page 4 where we welcome new Executive Committee member Ian Nock further to October’s AGM. We also are delighted to introduce Julie Harriss and Keera Miller- Howe, who you’ll also read about on page 4. Since September it’s been a really busy few months for us all and we loved seeing so many of you at IBC, Connected Britain, TechExpo and the INCA Summit – you can see a write up of our experiences on page 102. Our bursary winner Flutura Sadiku from Kosovo has written the loveliest piece on page 24 about what bursaries have done for her - members are entitled to this so please use this excellent benefit!
Melissa Cogavin Broadband Journal SCTE ® , Society for Broadband Professionals melissa@theSCTE.eu www.theSCTE.eu
Melissa Cogavin
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DECEMBER 2025 Volume 47 No.4
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