scte member focus
“As well as my company MAUS being a corporate member, personally being a Fellow of the SCTE is an honour and of course brings an excellent reputation with it.”
What’s the single biggest impact that AI will have on our industry? I describe AI as being 2 different things, Passive AI and Active AI. Think of Passive AI as being chatbots, photo editing, help desks, where you go to find answers from a central large database, something that waits to be prodded, and latency is a non-issue. Any service provider can be a part of this kind of data transfer. Active AI includes such things as robots, autonomous vehicles and traffic control; it’s where my company MAUS positions itself. This is interesting to telecoms operators in their quest to become tech- co’s. The “real time thinking and reaction” is done on the edge with live information from local sensors, but also links back to traditional data centres for historical data such as maps for directions, so for this type of application very agile comms are required with a focus on ultra-low latency (even milliseconds matter when you are trying to avoid running over a pedestrian). This is where investment is heading and technical challenges still exist.
installed a network there where they had nothing before. But every positive has a negative, some memories are not so great, missing my son grow as I was away so much, punishing my health, not knowing what time zone I was in from one day to another. Success at a price for sure. The sector has changed a lot over the years; what for you is the biggest shift? The network side of things has become simpler. With the move to full fibre, it’s basically a big ethernet network, it is what hangs off either end that is becoming more complex, and as always, the easier you make it for the customer, the more complicated things get behind the scenes. What do you get out of being a member of the SCTE? What would you like to see more of? As well as my company MAUS being a corporate member, personally being a Fellow of the SCTE is an honour and of course brings an excellent reputation with it. I like the “no sales pitch” lectures, a chance to understand more without pressure being applied. It would be good to have more interaction somehow, maybe more regular sessions and something hands-on at times.
May 2024 Volume 46 No.2
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