SCTE Announcements
Register Today for the SCTE Business Services Symposium Join SCTE in Chicago Tuesday to Wednesday, Oct. 17-18, and take in four information-packed tech sessions and sponsor demos on Tuesday followed by two workshop periods the next morning. Sponsored by Accenture, Arcwave, ARRIS, BelAir Networks, Cisco Systems, CommScope, Communications Technology magazine, Motorola, Narad Networks, Nortel, Tellabs, Vyyo and World Wide Packets. Registration is underway! http://www.scte.org/content/index.cfm?pID=1462 Calling All Papers for ET 2007 Send SCTE your proposals for papers to be presented at the SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies (ET) 2007 next January in Houston. Deadline: Friday, Aug. 11. http://www.scte.org/content/index.cfm?pID=1473 Catch SCTE Live Learning Next Month "IPTV: How It Works and How to Monitor/Troubleshoot It" is the next topic of SCTE Live Learning, set for Wednesday, Aug. 16, at 2 p.m. Eastern time. Free to SCTE members. Registration is required, and "seats" are limited. SCTE Live Learning is sponsored by Cisco Systems, Fujitsu, Motorola, and Scientific Atlanta, a Cisco Company. Archived recordings include responses to questions that were posed during the original presentation. Commercial Services, OCAP, Optical Transport, PacketCable, and Wireless Technology are among the choices of archived topics. Archives are for SCTE members only, and at no cost. Choose a topic to watch at your convenience. http://www.scte.org/content/index.cfm?pID=940 SCTE Standing Committee Chairs Named Take a look at the names of the leaders for the 2006-’07 term. http://www.scte.org/news/detail.cfm?ID=478 Stand Out From the Crowd with SCTE Certifications Narrated by SCTE Director of Certification and Program Development Joel E. Welch, SCTE Certifications: Stand Out From the Crowd describes the SCTE Certification Programs as well as exam preparation, costs and procedures. This overview of the SCTE Certification Programs is an easy way to learn how certification can become an important part of your plan for career advancement. View it now by clicking on SCTE Certification Overview Video. Purchase Interactive TV Standards (TR107) by Steven Morris, Anthony Smith-Chaigneau This guide to deploying MHP, OCAP, and JavaTV will help Digital TV developers and managers understand what the application programming interfaces (APIs) do, but just as importantly, it will describe how APIs work and relate to each other at a deeper level. Learn how to spot when something that looks like a good solution to a problem really isn’t. Understand how the many standards that make up MHP fit together, and implement them effectively and quickly. Learn which elements of the standards are needed for digital TV, highlight those elements that are not needed, and explain the special requirements that MHP places on implementations of these standards. By detailing how a team can develop products for both the OCAP and MHP markets, you’ll learn how to leverage your experience with one of these standards into the skills and knowledge needed to work with the critical, related standards. Available for purchase through the SCTE Bookstore. Retail Price: $70; SCTE Member Price: $63. http://www.scte.org/devams/cgi- bin/msascartlist.dll/ProductInfo?productcd=TR107