Success of the Internet as a communications medium has opened doors to a rapid deployment of new products and services that directly benefit the end user. The result is a high-awareness among average residential/small-business user of the technologies that bring high bandwidth to mass markets, namely, DSL and cable modems. This is a two-part presentation that will cover the cable modems from technology and application perspectives. This first-part presentation will cover the following:

Cable television network architecture
Migration of cable networks to hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) networks
Conversion of broadcast systems to two-way interactive networks
Use of cable RF spectrum and recent changes in the use of traditional RF spectrum
Developments in cable modem technology , design encapsulation, signaling & control
Physical (PHY) & Media Access Control (MAC) Layer specification and design
Data Over Cable Services Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) Standard
Other related standards - PacketCable, OpenCable and EuroDOCSIS

The second-part of this presentation will cover the network, cable system and product-level details and is scheduled on June 14, 2001.

Venkata C. Majeti is Founder and Chairman of Cadant, an early stage company offering DOCSIS standard based Cable Modem Termination System products. Prior to founding Cadant, Dr. Majeti was instrumental in the engineering and development of digital switching and transmission technologies at Lucent Technologies, 3Com, and Westell. Dr. Majeti has 9 patents and has served as Executive Editor of “Cable Modems: Current Technologies and Applications,” a book published by the IEEE Press and the International Engineering Consortium. He holds a PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur and a B.Tech from Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University.

Place:
Motorola
1301 Algonquin Road
Schaumburg, Illinois