SCTE Cable-Tec Expo® returns safely as a virtual experience. Known around the world for thought leadership, engineering innovation, and pioneering business insights, Cable-Tec Expo represents the evolution of the broadband telecommunications sector.
Visit CableLabs, Kyrio and Gridmetrics at the virtual SCTE Cable-Tec Expo to view more information and watch demo videos on the following technologies:
CableLabs and Kyrio will feature the following speakers and sessions during the virtual event.
CableLabs Technology Hub™
10G and Immersive Media Experiences
Read More
Methodology for Intelligent Network Discovery
MIND™
Read More
Model-Driven Streaming Telemetry in a Distributed CCAP Architecture (DCA)
Read More
Streamlined Internet of Things (IoT) Device Onboarding
Read More
Gridmetrics™ Power Event Notification System
PENS™
Read More
Kyrio Flexible Automated Device Testing
FlexTest™
Read More
Kyrio Adaptive Route Control
ARC
Read More
CableLabs Speakers
Phil McKinney
President and CEO | CableLabs
Read More
Mark Dzuban
President & CEO SCTE a subsidiary of CableLabs
Read More
Alberto Campos
Fellow | CableLabs
Read More
David Debrecht
Vice President of Wireless Research and Development at CableLabs
Read More
Omkar Dharmadhikari
Lead Wireless Architect | CableLabs
Read More
Mario Di Dio
VP of Software and Network Technology | Kyrio
Ike Elliott
President & CEO | Kyrio
Read More
Steve Glennon
Distinguished Technologist | CableLabs
Read More
Curtis Knittle
Vice President of Wired Technologies | CableLabs
Read More
Randy Levensalor
Principal Architect | CableLabs
Read More
Massimiliano Pala
Principal Security Architect | CableLabs
Read More
Jason Rupe
Principal Architect, Wired | CableLabs
Read More
Matt Schmitt
Principal Architect | CableLabs
Read More
Brian Scriber
Distinguished Technologist and VP of Security Technologies | CableLabs
Read More
Roy Sun Ph.D.
Lead Architect | Cablelabs
Read More
Karthik Sundaresan
Distinguished Technologist | CableLabs
Read More
Mark Walker
VP, Tech Policy | CableLabs
Read More
Greg White
Distinguished Technologist | CableLabs
Read More
Jay Zhu
Senior Engineer | CableLabs
Read More
CableLabs Speaker Schedule at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo
10:00a-2:30p EDTPre-Conference Session: 10G and Convergence: A Perfect Union
CableLabs Speakers: Curtis Knittle, VP Wired Technologies
Randy Levensalor, Principal Architect
Click here for session recording
3:30-4:45 PM EDTThe "Cloudified" CMTS: A Tale About Time
CableLabs Speaker: Roy Sun Ph.D., Lead Architect
Click here for session recording
8:30-9:45 AM EDTSo Many More Control Knobs! Optimizing Upstream Performance with DOCSIS 4.0
CableLabs Speaker: Karthik Sundaresan, Distinguished Technologist
Click here for session recording
10:00 AM-12:00 PM EDTSCTE Cable-Tec Expo General Session Spectacular
CableLabs Speakers: Phil McKinney, President & CEO Mark Dzuban, President & CEO at SCTE a subsidiary of CableLabs
Click here for session recording
12:00-1:00 PM EDTLight Reading: 5G - Cable Friend or Foe?
CableLabs Speaker: David Debrecht, Vice President of Wireless Research and Development
Click here for session recording
1:00-2:00 PM EDTEverything You Ever Wanted to Know About OFDMA for the Upstream Path
CableLabs Speakers: Alberto Campos, Fellow
Jay Zhu, Senior Engineer
Click here for session recording
1:30-2:30 PM EDTThe Path to 10G
CableLabs Speakers:
Phil McKinney, President & CEO
Mark Dzuban, President & CEO at SCTE a subsidiary of CableLabs
Click here for session recording
2:00-3:00 PM EDTLight Reading: Transforming the Cable HFC Network
CableLabs Speaker: Randy Levensalor, Principal Architect
Click here for session recording
3:00-4:00 PM EDTClose to the Edge: How Latency-Sensitive Apps are Defining
CableLabs Speaker: Randy Levensalor, Principal Architect
Click here for session recording
Fiber to the Home: The Other Path to 10G
CableLabs Speaker: Curtis Knittle, Vice President Wired Technologies
Click here for session recording
Upstream Echo Cancellation: Could It Be Even Better Than We Thought?
CableLabs Speaker: Alberto Campos, Fellow
Click here for session recording
4:30-6:00 PM EDTSCTE Standards: Energy 20/20 Program Update
Speakers:
Derek DiGiacomo, Senior Director, Energy Management & Business Continuity, SCTE
Steve Glennon, Distinguished Technologist, CableLabs Click here for session recording
8:00-9:00 AM EDTHostile Traffic Mitigation: Protecting Your Customers
CableLabs Speakers:
Brian Scriber, Distinguished Technologist and VP of Security Technologies
Randy Levensalor, Principal Architect
Click here for session recording
11:15 AM-12:30 PM EDTMaking Wi-Fi and Mobile Networks Work Together
Kyrio Speakers:
Ike Elliott, President & CEO at Kyrio
Mario Di Dio, VP of Software and Network Technology at Kyrio
Click here for session recording
1:00-2:00 PM EDTNew Tricks in Proactive Network Maintenance - Like Finding Water in Drop Cables (Before it Impacts Customers). What!?
CableLabs Speaker: Karthik Sundaresan, Distinguished Technologist
Click here for session recording
1:00-2:15 PM EDTAdventures in Wireline & Wireless Convergence: HFC, Meet Your New Bestie, 5G!
CableLabs Speaker: Omkar Dharmadhikari, Lead Architect
Click here for session recording
3:00-4:00 PM EDTBackhaul over DOCSIS®; It's About Time (Literally)
CableLabs Speaker: Roy Sun Ph.D., Lead Architect
Click here for session recording
CableLabs Best Common Practices for Gateway Device Security
CableLabs Speakers:
Brian Scriber, Distinguished Technologist and VP of Security Technologies
Mark Walker, VP of Tech Policy Click here for session recording
9:30-10:30 AM EDTThe Lag-Buster That is Low Latency DOCSIS (LLD): Details and Current Events
CableLabs Speaker: Greg White, Distinguished Technologist
Click here for session recording
11:00 AM-12:00 PM EDTBTR Tech Panel: On the Road to 10G: Where Are We?
CableLabs Speaker: Curtis Knittle, VP Wired Technologies
Click here for session recording
12:00-1:00 PM EDTInnovation Theater: PNM Live! 2021
CableLabs Speaker: Jason Rupe, Principal Architect
Click here for session recording
Immersive media technologies will be an industry game changer, and it will be enabled by the cable 10G network. Holographic media is real, it’s working, and it’s exciting. With no need for headsets, this emerging technology allows everyone in the room to participate. It’s different than what 3D television promised, and an ecosystem is quickly developing around it. How will technologists get petabyte-size media files across the network with no lag time and deliver an experience that consumers will pay for?
Many elements in cable’s hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) networks don’t have a method to communicate their identity, location, characteristics or health. Manual intervention from technicians in the field is often required to gather and verify such information. Our MIND technology, which is primarily a software solution, leverages multiple sources of information and tools, including DOCSIS®, proactive network maintenance (PNM), geodata, artificial intelligence (AI) and other methods. The innovative MIND technology allows the discovery of network elements, their identifying parameters, as well as location and connectivity. Information is made available in a logical format so that it can be leveraged for numerous applications such as map generation and verification, fraud detection, what-if scenarios, 1.8/3+ GHz planning, device localization, on-demand network characterization and many others.
Model-Driven Streaming Telemetry in a Distributed CCAP Architecture (DCA)
This demo will show the framework for and the capability of streaming telemetry data from required components in a DCA deployment containing various collectors so that operators can track the health of the access network or make decisions (human or computer) about how to modify the network as needed.
Streamlined Internet of Things (IoT) Device Onboarding
This demonstration of streamlined onboarding will illustrate the future of simplified and secure IoT management, in which a single scan of a device’s QR code securely associates it with the Wi-Fi network and onboards it into the IoT management domain.
PENS uses a unique dataset to provide near-real-time, hyperlocal insights into the availability and quality of power from the electrical grid. By providing an unprecedented observational view of the state of power in the last mile of the distribution grid, PENS aids in the identification of power-vulnerable populations or facilities. When outages occur, the system can also alert utility companies and organizations responsible for emergency response, corporate security, situational awareness, public safety and business resilience.
Today, device manufacturers provide network equipment for cable service operators. Throughout the product development lifecycle, the equipment requires testing and certification. Testing of hardware and software includes component, integration, interoperability, and end-to-end strategies. The certification process typically happens at the end of the product development, just before going to market. In today’s agile landscape, testing and certification need to adapt to new product development processes that are employed to save time and costs. Device manufacturers need a test platform that they can access anytime, anywhere to expedite time to market.
Kyrio FlexTest provides device manufacturers with automated, remote, and flexible test capabilities for the full product development lifecycle. With over 1500 devices certified, resulting in 2.3 billion units shipped since 2001, Kyrio is the most trusted source for network equipment testing and software services. We employ global standards to test devices in real network environments to ensure that customer’s devices and their subsequent release updates, are each high-quality, giving them a competitive edge.
In an always-connected world, mobile users often have overlapping coverage of Wi-Fi and LTE. When experiencing connectivity issues, users struggle to perform manual network troubleshooting and often turn off Wi-Fi altogether due to perceived poor quality. Meanwhile, operators lack a flexible tool that can give them the power of shaping the user experience while having full control of their cost to serve. Learn how ARC addresses these problems by providing a seamless transition between wireless networks (e.g., LTE, Wi-Fi) using per-dataflow steering policies shaped by multi-user and multi-network feedback and find out how to get involved.
Phil McKinney is president and CEO at CableLabs, a non-profit research & development lab funded by the global cable industry. McKinney leads the development of technologies and specifications for the secure delivery of high-speed data, video, voice and next-generation services. He oversees testing, certification facilities and guides the technical leadership for the industry, charting the course for future technology and innovation.
During his career, McKinney has held leadership positions in major companies including serving as vice president and CTO for Hewlett-Packard‘s Personal Systems Group. There, he was responsible for long-range strategic planning and R&D for the company’s PC product lines. In addition, he founded and led HP’s Innovation Program Office (IPO), a nationally recognized incubator for new HP technologies, products and services. McKinney also served as senior vice president and CIO at Teligent and as a director at CSC.
Author, speaker and innovation guru, McKinney shares his rule-breaking approach to innovation and creativity in his book “Beyond the Obvious”. He has been recognized by Fast Company, BusinessWeek, MSNBC, Vanity Fair and other media outlets for his industry contributions. In 2015, his podcast, Killer Innovations™, became nationally syndicated and carried by more than 30 radio stations. In 2017, The Cable Center named McKinney an Innovation Laureate in recognition of his role as a key influencer in mentoring, teaching and motivating the next generation of cable industry leaders.
McKinney serves on the advisory board for Hacking Autism, he is chairman of the board for Pioneer Education Africa, and oversees the Techtrend Group, which invests in entrepreneurs in developing countries to create jobs that fuel economic growth.
Mark Dzuban
President & CEO SCTE a subsidiary of CableLabs
Mark Dzuban is continuing a career-long commitment to driving technological change and innovation that create a more connected world and improve business outcomes for the cable industry. Since joining SCTE in February 2009, he has been instrumental in transforming the organization into an applied science leader in workforce education, standards, energy management and other areas. In cable’s 10G era, Dzuban is breaking down industry barriers and widening SCTE’s influence in such areas as Aging in Place/TeleHealth, Telemedicine, Autonomous Vehicles, AI/ML and more.
Dzuban has been recognized throughout his career as a thought leader, particularly in the development of cable telephony and other two-way services. Working across legislative, financial and engineering areas, Dzuban pioneered the concept and market acceptance of the voice services that today contribute to cable’s bottom line and was granted a patent for an approach to enhancing cable network survivability for lifeline services such as telephony. With AT&T’s Broadband Consumer Services group, he engineered the first full-motion MSO-to-MSO video telephony call in 1993.
Dzuban began his career in 1968 as a design engineer for Vikoa, and advanced to leadership positions in such organizations as Clear Cable and Cross Country Cable. With AT&T, he drove deployment of more than 500,000 cable telephony lines after being promoted to senior vice president of AT&T Broadband Telephony Operations and Engineering. Prior to joining SCTE•ISBE, he had served as Vice Chairman of Cedar Point Communications, a developer and manufacturer of innovative VoIP switching equipment. Dzuban also has served in advisory positions to a variety of vendors to the cable industry, including ARRIS, Net2Phone/IDT and Broadcom.
Dzuban has been honored within the industry as a Cable TV Pioneer, a Cable Center Innovation Laureate and a Vanguard Award winner. He also has been named as a Veteran of Influence by the Philadelphia Business Journal.
Dzuban served in Korea as a Combat Logistics Specialist in the United States Army. He and his wife, Shawn, now live in the Philadelphia western suburbs.
Alberto Campos
Fellow | CableLabs
For the past 26 years, Dr. L. Alberto Campos has worked on broadband access networks, covering Cable, DSL, Wireless and Optical Transport technologies. He has conducted extensive research on upstream transmission impairments of HFC networks and cable modem networking protocols. Early in his career at GTE/Verizon Laboratories, he was the technical lead in GTE’s cable modem network deployments.
Dr. Campos joined CableLabs® in 2002. He has been responsible and led work in DRFI, DOCSIS 3.0 and 3.1 PHY specifications. In 2017, he was named CableLabs’ first Fellow in CableLabs’ 30 year history. His interests include wireless and optical communications, advanced applications and services, network dimensioning, network reliability, service assurance and proactive network maintenance. He has conducted seminal work in the areas of proactive network maintenance, DOCSIS 3.1 and coherent optics. This last activity resulted in CableLabs’ Point-to-point Coherent Optics Specification effort.
He has numerous publications and over 25 patents granted in the areas of RF, high-speed fiber-optic links and broadband access networks. He holds a BSEE, a MSEE and a Ph.D. degree, obtained respectively in 1984, 1986 and 1991 from Northeastern University in Massachusetts.
David Debrecht
Vice President of Wireless Research and Development at CableLabs
David Debrecht is vice president of Wireless Research and Development at CableLabs. In this role, he directs the execution and adoption of new wireless technologies and specifications for the secure delivery of high-speed data, video, voice and next generation servicesfor CableLabs members and the industry. David is also a member of the executive board of directors for the National Spectrum Consortium which is responsible for steering the planning and coordination of incubation projects with the consortium membership of both traditional federal and commercial R&D organizations.
David has over 30 years of experience with wireless technology solutions in both government and commercial applications. He has served in a broad range of technology and product development roles, including various positions in R&D, product management, and technology development. David started his career at General Dynamics developing radar, radar warning, and electronic countermeasures platforms on the F–16 fighter aircraft. His focus was on systems integration, radio performance and compatibility of on-board systems. He moved to telecommunications in the mid-90s and started the commercial side of his career with Nokia on radio base station R&D. He successfully filled many different roles within Nokia for 25 years, the latest of which, before moving to CableLabs, was CTO for the U.S. and Federal business in the customer operations organization.
David holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University. He enjoys the outdoors and participates regularly in both organized and unorganized outdoor sports and recreation.
Omkar Dharmadhikari
Lead Wireless Architect | CableLabs
Omkar Dharmadhikari is a Lead Wireless Architect at CableLabs, a non-profit research and development lab funded by the global cable industry. He is responsible for innovation, strategy, standards development, and new technology innovation. With over 10 years of experience in wireless industry, he is a subject matter expert on mobile wireless (4G/5G), MVNOs, convergence, private networks, wireless traffic management and Citizen’s Broadband Radio Service (CBRS).
Instrumental in developing the mobility lab at CableLabs, Omkar has led multiple testing efforts and hosted several technical webinars including lab demos. He has authored several technical blogs on Multipath TCP, Edge Computing, Network Slicing, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence highlighting his expertise in wireless field.
Prior to joining CableLabs, Omkar worked for Samsung and Ericsson leading feature development, lab and field interoperability testing, network deployment and network maintenance support.
Omkar actively participates in several standards organizations including 3GPP, GSMA and CBRS Alliance. Omkar has several filed patents. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from Mumbai University and a Master of Science degree in Telecommunications from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is currently pursuing Master of Business Administration from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne.
Ike Elliott
President & CEO | Kyrio
Ike Elliott is President & CEO of Kyrio. At Kyrio, a subsidiary of CableLabs, Ike leads a growing provider of services for the connectivity industry, including broadband device testing, security analysis, and software services. Ike transitioned to Kyrio full time in late 2020 after leading the CableLabs Strategy team for a decade, including five years as Chief Strategy Officer, which also included stints leading innovation services, advanced technology projects, technology outreach and marketing.
Before joining CableLabs, Ike held senior executive operating and strategy roles at Level 3 Communications and Unity Business Networks. He was also the president and founder of Practiq Strategy Consultants. In 1999, Ike co-founded the International Softswitch Consortium and served as its president and chairman for three years.
Ike began his career in software development and network architecture. He is an inventor with three dozen patents and continuations. Ike serves on the board for the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, and on the board of Global Hope, a non-profit that provides homes and care for orphaned and vulnerable children. He received a Bachelor of Science in computer science from James Madison University, and a Master of Science in computer science from Johns Hopkins University.
Steve Glennon
Distinguished Technologist | CableLabs
Steve Glennon leads, creates and develops innovations with multi-billion-dollar market impact for the benefit of the worldwide cable industry. Having worked with digital human representation and holographic telepresence in virtual and augmented reality for several years, and having co-initiated the Low Latency initiative at CableLabs, he is working to revolutionize how Wi-Fi is used for mobility. In addition to his Wi-Fi work, Steve is developing sensors for the Gridmetrics platform to provide real-time synchronized insights into the state of the electric grid and cable plant power.
Prior to CableLabs, Glennon held roles in business development, software architecture and software engineering management.
Glennon spent twenty-five years developing high-volume digital video platforms and products, including over fifteen million digital satellite set-top boxes and some of the earliest video products for the PC while at IBM. He has also served as an adjunct faculty member in the University of Colorado – Boulder’s Inter-Disciplinary Telecommunications Program and holds twenty patents for hardware and software systems.
Glennon earned a Bachelors degree in Physics and a Masters degree in Electronics at the University of Durham, UK.
Curtis Knittle
Vice President of Wired Technologies | CableLabs
Dr. Curtis Knittle is the Vice President of Wired Technologies at CableLabs, the non-profit research & development lab funded by the global cable industry. Curtis and his team are responsible for specifying scalable deployment solutions in both hybrid fiber coax and all-fiber access networks for CableLabs member companies. DOCSIS® technologies, Full Duplex DOCSIS, Distributed CCAP Architectures, and Point-to-Point Coherent Optics are a few current high priority projects under his leadership.
Prior to joining CableLabs, Curtis lead an engineering team that developed the world’s first CMTS-in-a-node and Ethernet-switch-in-a-node, both solutions representing the first instantiation of what today is called deep fiber distributed architecture solutions for the cable industry. Currently, Curtis is the Chair of the IEEE 802.3ca 50G-EPON task force, helping to usher in the first 50 Gb/s PON solution.
He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico, and Master and Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University.
Randy Levensalor
Principal Architect | CableLabs
Randy Levensalor is a principal architect at CableLabs, a non-profit research & development lab funded by the global cable industry. As a principal member of the Future Infrastrcutre Group (FIG) team, he is responsible for creating the edge and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) infrastructure reference platform and progressing orchestration capabilities based on service providers’ needs. Randy also leads the Software Defined Networking NFV Application development Platform and Stack project, or SNAPS®, a CableLabs initiative to accelerate and ease the adoption of network virtualization. Randy was recognized in Fierce Telecom’s “The top 25 movers and shakers in the telecom industry.”
Prior to joining CableLabs, Randy gained extensive experience leading R&D, DevOps, and product management across several Hewlett-Packard divisions focusing on successfully delivering its public cloud, Linux and converged management solutions.
Randy is actively involved in CNCF, OPNFV, OpenStack and OpenDaylight and contributes to key industry standardization efforts including ETSI NFV. A subject matter expert, he has spoken on a broad range of topics at several conferences including the Open Networking Summit, OpenStack Summit, OPNFV Summit, Big Communications, SCTE Cable Tech Expo, NFV World Congress, SDN World Congress, Linux Conference Australia, Automation Everywhere and many more. Randy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Virginia Tech.
Massimiliano Pala
Principal Security Architect | CableLabs
Massimiliano Pala joined the R&D Security Team at CableLabs where he brings his expertise of applied research in Security, PKIs, and Encryption Technologies. In 1998, he started the OpenCA project and he still continues its development and management. In addition to his Ph.D., Dr. Pala holds a Laurea (equiv. to BS and MS) in Computer Engineering.
Jason Rupe
Principal Architect, Wired | CableLabs
Dr. Jason Rupe got his Ph.D. a long time ago, conducting research on large scale systems and networks for reliability and performance modeling. He taught quality control, reliability, and even a few software and electronics courses at various universities. He has worked at USWEST Advanced Technologies, Qwest Communications, Polar Star Consulting, Tenica, and as an independent consultant to the IEEE. In these companies, he has had titles including technical staff, senior technical staff, and director; but he has always been the companies’ expert on reliability and quality. In these roles, he has been able to design or help design several networks for the government and private sector, assure broadband deployments are profitable and reliable, design solutions that meet targeted service level agreements, design and test network solutions for high reliability, and invent a few cool things too. He is heavily involved in the IEEE, in various roles at conferences, on the IEEE Reliability Society ExCom (elected), as a co-chair for the IEEE Blockchain Initiative, and as chair of IEEE Denver Section. Currently, he is the Principal Architect for Proactive Network Maintenance at CableLabs, where he is the champion for all opportunities to help the industry improve service reliability for the cable industry. He holds a couple patents, and is working on a bunch more.
Matt Schmitt
Principal Architect | CableLabs
Matt Schmitt is a Principal Architect at CableLabs. Matt has worked in the cable industry on DOCSIS® and other technologies for over 20 years with CableLabs and several manufacturers. On the DOCSIS side he led the development of the DOCSIS 3.1 specifications at CableLabs, and has also led or played a significant role in the development of the DSG, Modular CMTS, DOCSIS 3.0, CCAP, and C-DOCSIS specifications. After leading the Lab Services team at CableLabs for several years, Matt is now back to leading CableLabs R&D projects, this time in the optical space with Point-to-Point Coherent Optics, as well as leading the cross-functional Low Latency Program to bring various low latency related projects under a common umbrella, while maintaining responsibility for the various CableLabs Certification programs.
Brian Scriber
Distinguished Technologist and VP of Security Technologies | CableLabs
Brian Scriber is a Distinguished Technologist at CableLabs and the Vice President of Security Technology. Brian works with wired and wireless networking leaders on security strategy and implementation using advanced technologies and techniques including PKI, blockchains, encryption, and differential privacy.
Brian holds a B.S.E in Computer Engineering (University of Michigan) a M.S. in Computer Science (University of Colorado), and an M.B.A. in Technical Strategy (University of Colorado). From 2015 through 2019, Brian was the chair of the Security Working Group at the Open Connectivity Foundation. Brian brings his extensive experience in software, security, and cryptographic governance to both economic and technical analysis activities.
Brian’s background includes technical and executive leadership roles creating and protecting strategic network communications at companies including Lockheed Martin, Sun Microsystems; protecting financial information and transactions in the financial sector as well as protecting privacy and portability of personal information with companies in the healthcare and insurance markets.
Roy Sun Ph.D.
Lead Architect | Cablelabs
Dr. Ruoyu (Roy) Sun is a Lead Wireless Architect at CableLabs. His research interest includes radio propagation channel measurements and modeling, communication over challenging channels, and spectrum sharing. Roy used to work at NIST, ST-Ericsson, Motorola and T3G Technologies. He has published 60+ papers, organized 20+ conferences and reviewed 200+ manuscripts. Roy is an IEEE Senior Member and 3GPP RAN4 delegate.
Karthik Sundaresan
Distinguished Technologist | CableLabs
Karthik Sundaresan, Distinguished Technologist at CableLabs, is responsible for the development and architecture of cable access network technologies. He is the technical lead and long-time contributor to various DOCSIS technologies (FDX, D3.1, D3.0, RPHY, eDOCSIS, L2VPN, PCMM). He is focused on MAC and IP layer protocols, with recent research in areas around Profile Management, Low Latency, SDN/NFV implications for the cable access network and the application of Machine learning to data from cable networks.
Previously, he developed hardware designs for MPEG encoders, analog video decoders and cable modems at Conexant Systems, and developed embedded software for telecom networking equipment at Carrier Access. Karthik holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (University of Colorado, Boulder) and is (ISC2) CISSP certified. He is the past Chair of the IEEE Communications Society, Denver Chapter.
Mark Walker
VP, Tech Policy | CableLabs
Mark Walker is Vice President, Technology Policy at CableLabs. He joined CableLabs in 2015 and now leads the Technology Policy group which focuses on, broadband policy, spectrum and wireless policy, cybersecurity and supply chain policy, and energy policy. Prior to joining CableLabs, Mark was the Deputy Chief in the Telecommunications Access Policy Division of the Federal Communications Commission that led the policy team for the E-rate Program (more formally known as the “Schools and Libraries Universal Service Mechanism”). While at the FCC, Mark also served as a Legal Advisor to the Chief of the Wireline Competition Bureau as well as an Attorney Advisor on the E-rate and Rural Health Care teams. Prior to joining the FCC, he worked in private practice representing clients in telecommunications and other closely regulated industries. Mark holds a Bachelors degree in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Penn State University, an MBA from Lehigh University, and a JD from the University of Colorado.
Greg White
Distinguished Technologist | CableLabs
Since joining CableLabs in 1999, Greg White has been a technical leader who has been instrumental in developing several key technologies for the cable industry. White acted as the lead architect for the Emmy Award winning DOCSIS 3.0 specification as well as DOCSIS 2.0, Modular-CMTS and DOCSIS Set-Top Gateway (DSG), and he contributed to the development of DOCSIS 3.1 and to DOCSIS 1.1. His leadership and contributions to the DOCSIS program have been profoundly important to its success.
In addition to his technical leadership of these industry specifications, White has been a leader in the standards arena, actively promoting ANSI/SCTE standards based on CableLabs specifications, serving as Chairman of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Cable Technical Committee, and leading cable modem standardization in the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). White is currently actively engaged in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
Current research interests include new technologies to reduce latency in networks, Information Centric Networking, measurement of network performance, and understanding QoS-QoE relationships.
Jay Zhu
Senior Engineer | CableLabs
Jay Zhu is a Senior Engineer at CableLabs who has been an active contributor in multiple R&D projects including Profile Management Application, Distributed Access Architecture, and Proactive Network Maintenance. He is also an innovator who leads cutting-edge research activities that can benefit cable operators. His research interests include network data analytics, machine learning, and dynamic bandwidth allocation, etc. He constantly seeks for innovative solutions that can reduce network maintenance cost and improve customer experience for the operators.
