EDITORial
Editor’s Letter
excellent industry initiatives doing great things to address the biggest issue of all: education. There are still big issues to overcome but progress has certainly been made. Big thanks to everyone I spoke to in the production of this piece, I am very grateful for your help. In our technical section (pages 82-104) we cover topics such as PON, XGS PON, Pay TV and we welcome a fantastic piece from the FTTH Council Europe on assessing your carbon output, which will be of use to anyone in manufacturing or distribution in our sector. We also talk to our sponsors DCT Delta AG in our interview with outgoing Ulrich Kiebler and incoming CEO Volker Braun on page 52. We also had a long chat with Technetix CEO Paul Broadhurst on page 38, and you can meet Xavier Renard, Marketing Director at Acome Group on page 26. You’ll find a Witbe product review on page 120, we introduce two new companies to you in our Start Up Zone on page 108 and Netceed talk to us about the expansion of FTTx networks in Germany on page 106, plus some inspiring thought leadership from Harmonic, IQGEO, Kontron, Webro, MS3 and 2Link. Wishing Peter Charissé, Jenny Friedsam and their team all the best for a wonderful ANGA COM and we will see you on Wednesday at 4pm! Stand MB8.
It’s springtime at last and at the SCTE we have been hard at work, as you’ll see from the new look magazine, and our shiny new logo. Our front cover, in partnership with our good friends at DCT Delta AG should jump off the shelves at this year’s ANGA COM show and the theme of new horizons reflects the objectives of both DCT Delta and the SCTE. This issue is absolutely packed with articles, reviews, anaylsis and comment from the best our industry has to offer. We have some great new initiatives to announce over the coming weeks, and we’ll be launching one in particular at ANGA COM. We’ll be celebrating the launch of our app on stand MB8 on Wednesday at 4pm, please do come and join us. We are delighted to be the Official Magazine Partner for the show this year; please do take advantage of the new pull out section in the middle of this issue of Broadband Journal which tells you all you need to know about ANGA, the schedule, the floor plan and exhibitors. Our rebrand signifies a shift for the SCTE, an embrace of digital technology and a renewed vigour for the future. You can read more about this new direction on page 4, where we hear from Dr Anthony Basham, our President. We also hear from Richard Reis of Maus Technology in our Member Focus on page 12 – Richard has been a loyal long-time individual member and recently upgraded his membership to Corporate level. The Long Read on page 16 this time revisits a theme we covered in May 2021 concerning the sustainability of data centres. At the time we were still in lockdown and the news wasn’t great; although there were sustainable options becoming available, reporting was patchy, there were ingrained cultural issues and a siloed approach that was hampering progress. Since then, we’ve seen anti-greenwashing legislation thankfully passed, technology is offering extraordinary solutions to reducing emissions and there are some
Melissa Cogavin Managing Editor SCTE ® , Society for Broadband Professionals melissa@theSCTE.eu www.theSCTE.eu
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Volume 46 No.2 MAY 2024
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