See you at IBC 2019
SCTE Benelux invites you to the IBC 2019 Meeting on Monday September 16, during IBC 2019 in the Amsterdam RAI. From 1 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. there is an interesting program on the important theme of “Artificial Intelligence and content delivery”. Participation is free for SCTE-members. Register via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
With the current developments in streaming IP applications, the management and technical challenges associated with delivering flawless, error-free video and audio of these streams becomes more and more complicated. With the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) complicated control and IP-traffic issues can be solved, allowing a reliable management of OTT, VOD and 5G interconnection streams in the networks.
Location: RAI-Amsterdam, Emerald Room
Date: Monday, September 16, 2019
Topic: “Artificial Intelligence and content delivery”
Moderator: Mr. Ed Achterberg
Program for IBC-2019 SCTE Benelux Lecture Meeting
13.00 – 14.00 Registration and light lunch buffet for attendees of session
14.00 – 14.10 Chairman’s welcome
14.10 – 14.15 Introduction by the Moderator – Ed Achterberg
14.15 – 14.45 “Building data-driven, cloud-based, click-to-deploy video delivery solutions by leveraging the advances in Artificial Intelligence”
Gabor Molnar, Ph.D., Evangelist, Video Services & Science, Divitel B.V.
The video industry is challenged by content, platform, and audience fragmentation. Operators, broadcasters, and content rights owners are facing fierce competition, and the struggle to keep viewers happy is real. Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery have already enabled video service providers to deploy software updates rapidly and onboard new services quickly. Artificial Intelligence-powered operations and fully automated testing are the next step in the video service providers’ agenda to become more effective, proactive, and predictive. This presentation will highlight how recent advances in AI research can be employed to enable sustainable business growth through excellent video operations.
14.45 – 15.15 “Management of DAA Ecosystems ”
Mr. Dominique De Paepe, Market Director Service Provider, Skyline Communications
DOCSIS Distributed Access Architectures (DAA) have gained a lot of interest across the cable industry. This is mainly due to the capability to largely converge the access infrastructure, to improve the end-of-line performance and to drastically reduce the time and cost to segment the network. However, it also becomes clear that a deployment at scale under this new architecture revolves around much more than just the approval and insertion of a series of next-generation core and access elements.
It’s impossible to proceed with the same management setup used for earlier centralized hybrid fiber coax architectures in this new ecosystem. A few elements that illustrate this are the use of shared capacity instead of dedicated links, the introduction of a converged interconnect network (CIN) and the capability to segment or redistribute nodes with the click of a button, and the option to deploy even virtualized cores for the different services or easily protect connections separately.
This session aims to illustrate how management platforms have evolved to protect end-to-end visibility on the service delivery infrastructure beyond this DAA migration. On the one hand, there is the knowledge on the topology to e.g. correlate QoS issues for given nodes or cells back to specific CIN components. On the other, machine learning unlocks “augmented operation” enabling proactive measures by e.g. the capability to flag for incidents or upcoming capacity breaches without any upfront configuration and ahead of any impact to the end user.
15.15 – 15.45 “Artificial Intelligence, naturally Smarter Cable Networks”
Dr.-Ing.Alexander C. Adams, Managing Director, Adams Network Engineering GmbH
Broadband cable operators are evolving toward automated operations enabling engineers and technicians to manage network functionality proactively and give customers greater flexibility in self-managing their services. The cable industry is increasingly utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to improve their services, including network operations and -management as well as customer experience. Cable operators collect a lot of data – the task at hand is aggregating it in a useful manner.
An AI-system collects and aggregates data, detects patterns, anticipates trends and automatically takes appropriate actions. Broadband cable operators are applying AI-disciplines in a number of ways, including proactive network maintenance (PNM), customer behaviour detection algorithms, automation and virtualization for better visibility into the network and self-management of services for customers.
This paper/presentation takes a look at the latest developments in applied artificial intelligence in the cable industry, their implementation strategies and technical approaches to generate meaningful insight from the abundance of data available and to enable higher efficiency in network operation, as well as future trends in the application of AI in cable.
15.45 – 16.30 Closing remarks Moderator/Chairman and drinks for attendees