This presentation is a continuation of the May 22nd lecture and is Part-2 of a two-part presentation. The first part focused on cable modem technology - PHY and MAC layers, data encapsulation, signaling & control, and related standards. The second part will cover applications, end-to-end network architecture, cacheing, product and system level design issues.

Technical and Market discussions of cable modems often focus on high-speed data services. However, current mass-market application of cable modem technology is in the digital set top box application. The applications for cable modem technology include digital video, data, POTS, streaming audio/video and VoIP services. An attempt is made to review the cable and HFC network using principles of top-down system architecture. This presentation will cover the following:

Cable Modem: Applications

Quick overview of cable and HFC networks
Cable as a (broadband) Content Delivery Network
National and Inter-Regional Network Architecture
Regional Network Architecture
Cable Headend - Product and System Overview
Delivering (analog) Video Services
Delivering Digital Video Services
Cable Data Network Architecture
Cable Telephony Network Architecture
PacketCable and “VoIP over Cable” Architecture
System & Product Requirements
Convergence
Summary & Conclusions

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, Venkata was instrumental in the engineering and development of digital switching and transmission technologies at Lucent Technologies, 3Com, and Westell. He led the Lucent team that developed the Split-Channel Asymmetric Networking (SCAN) architecture for delivering data over cable services, one of the industry's first asymmetric cable data systems. As Technical Director for ADSL system architecture at 3Com and at Westell, he was responsible for numerous advances in Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) and ADSL technologies. Venkata 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.

For reservations, please call the IEEE Message Center at (800)898-IEEE by 1PM Monday, May 21st. For more information about the meeting, call Norm Phoenix at (847)523-1078.

Place:
Motorola