Communications Technology this Month

Cover Story

Cable-Tec Expo '99 Wrap-Up

• Annual Engineering Conference
• Honoring SCTE's Charter Members
• Awards Luncheon
• Workshops
• Exhibit Floor
• Parties and Fun
• Cable-Tec Games Winner's Circle

Columns

Hranac-Notes for the Technologist
CT Senior Technical Editor Ron Hranac offers a glimpse of yet another gremlin -- satellite leakage and ingress.

Focus on Telephony
KnowledgeLink's Justin Junkus covers concentration in a telephony context.

Return Path
CT Editor Jennifer Whalen covers members' concerns at the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers' annual membership meeting.

From the SCTE-List
SCTE-List administrator David Devereaux-Weber runs down a number of sources of information in our converging world.

President's Message
John Clark, president of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, highlights the Knowledge Avenue program.

Features

Open Access
CT Contributing Editor Art Cole looks into open access and whether it'll burst cable's broadband pipe.

The Build
Training and construction strategies for evolving broadband networks.

BellSouth at Home in Atlanta

OTDRs Do It Out-of-Band
GN Nettest's Joseph Annello, Jr., examines out-of-band testing of live fibers with optical time domain reflectometers (OTDRs).

Avoid Tree Trimming Dangers
21st Telecom Group's John Young highlights the hazards of tree trimming, explaining how to do it both properly and safely.

News & Opinion

Editor's Letter
CT Editor-in-Chief Rex Porter addresses the industry.
SCTE Update
Deployment Watch
Technology deployments throughout the industry.
Marketplace
New products in cable telecommunications engineering.

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