Cisco Cable Access Business leaders John Chapman and Ron Hranac discuss Ron's industry career and what to expect at SCTE's Cable Tec Expo.

John Chapman, Cisco’s CTO for the cable industry explores new technology that builds on a cable operators current HFC network. He covers the business opportunity, provides a definition of mobile backhaul over DOCIS and shows how the business value of using existing plant for mobile backhaul.

SCTE’s Cable-Tec Expo 2019 is just around the corner (September 30-October 3 in New Orleans). Plan on a busy week given the wide range of technology on display.

I caught up with Morgan Bondon, Cisco’s Vice President of Cable Broadband and Media Sales for the Americas and chatted with him about the opportunity for Cable Operators, Cisco’s plans for SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec 2019 and how Cisco will enable the transition ahead of us.

In honor of the SCTE·ISBE 50th anniversary, I thought I’d take a look back at some of the organization’s achievements and share a little trivia.

Introduction of Cisco's whitepaper analyzing the total cost of ownership advantages of Remote PHY compared to analog Fiber Deep architectures.

Remote PHY, the industry’s best bet technology for boosting performance, increasing capacity, reducing costs, and simplifying network operations, is the subject of a must-see seminar at this year’s SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo.

By John Chapman, Cisco Fellow, CTO, Cable Access BU This week, we and 10,000 or so hard-core engineering colleagues within the cable industry descend upon