ITA 2023 SEMINAR SCHEDULE

Every year we have seminars held throughout our Showcase, which this year will be held March 8th and 9th. This is a listing of our show seminar schedule; followed by an alphabetical listing of our companies with a fuller outline of the seminars they are presenting.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 8:
8:00 am	S&S Solutions “Optical Migration”
9:00 am	ZYXEL “Meeting Subscriber Demands with Wi-Fi 6/6E”
10:00 am	RIBBON COMMUNICATIONS “The Perfect Storm It’s a bright future for broadband, especially in the American Heartland”
11:00 am	CALIX “Be the Broadband Leader in your community. How are you going to make an impact in your community for decades to come?”
12 noon LUNCH BREAK	Lunch is served downstairs in the Mt. St. Helens ballroom
1:00 pm	NEX-TECH “Why Impressions Matter”
2:00 pm	Power & Tel “Benefits of Advanced Link Monitoring”
3:00 pm	Radisys “Converged Broadband Networks – Key Technology Enablers for Services Evolution”
4:00 pm	NW-TECH “NWT Workshop- This workshop will go over network topology, best practices and standards of network installation along with troubleshooting methods by showing you real world applications”

THURSDAY, MARCH 9:
8:00 am	VEEX “Evolution of PON Technology in Rural Markets and Testing Methodologies”
9:00 am	CCI Systems “Design for Failure”
10:00 am	FIBER PROFESSIONAL “Technical Hacks for Operational Efficiency”
11:00 am	Oregon Broadband Office & NTIA Seminar: Overview of State & Federal Broadband Funding
12 noon “END OF SHOW” LUNCH AND FINAL DOOR PRIZE GIVEAWAY!	Lunch is served downstairs in the Mt. St. Helens ballroom. Any unclaimed door prizes will be given away at this time!

ITA 2023 SEMINAR DESCRIPTIONS

CALIX

Be the Broadband Leader in your community. How are you going to make an impact in your community for decades to come?  

        This is an exciting time for Communications Service Providers as we are in the midst of two significant shifts that are filled with opportunity: subscribers everywhere working and learning from home, and the ability to leverage real-time data to excite subscribers.

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NEX-TECH

Why Impressions Matter 

NWT Workshop- This workshop will go over network topology, best practices and standards of network installation along with troubleshooting methods by showing you real world applications

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RIBBON COMMUNICATIONS

The Perfect Storm
It’s a bright future for broadband, especially in the American Heartland

The combination of vastly improved technology, the growth of advanced service demands and unprecedented public investment have made for a perfect storm of contributions to the next wave of growth in our industry. We will discuss each of these elements as we explore how now is the time to design the infrastructure to take your business into the future.

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ZYXEL COMMUNICATIONS INC.

Demands for fast and reliable internet at home continue to grow, and many are ready to take things to the next level with multi-gig services. As everything in the home becomes more connected, wireless capabilities need to keep up to handle the extra load. Wi-Fi 6 and 6E solutions offer relief for congested networks and provide even more access to bandwidth. Integrating these capabilities with a multi-gig gateway that can handle the ever-growing smart home is increasing in importance. Utilizing a managed Wi-Fi solution along with industry standard TR-069 allows providers to take it up a notch in meeting subscriber demands.

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CCI Systems

Design for Failure

Have you built your network to fail? Maybe you should. Service Provider Networks have never been more critical than they are today. Ever growing bandwidth demands and increased reliance on residential networks to conduct business means that the networks that Service Providers build and maintain today are more complicated and the stakes are higher than ever. These networks must be architected with the most expensive and complicated equipment money can buy with multiple levels of redundancy, so they never, ever go down! Or do they? Perhaps there is another way to achieve maximum uptime while not requiring a NASA engineer to design the hardware. Don’t miss your opportunity to get a look into the next generation Service Provider architectures and gain some insight into what many of the larger carriers are doing.

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POWER & TEL

“Benefits of Advanced Link Monitoring”

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RADISYS

“Converged Broadband Networks – Key Technology Enablers for Services Evolution”

The emergence of 5G wireless technology is expected to revolutionize the telecom industry and transform the next-generated connected society. With a support for variety of digital endpoints/devices across industry verticals unlocking new and emerging applications, 5G has been touted as not only the next era of connectivity but also an industrial revolution that has a huge promise to change our daily lives. For a seamless and successful transition from 4G to 5G within a disaggregated cloud native networking environment, the mobile xhaul transport network infrastructure plays a pivotal role to provide permanent availability of such real time connections with a superior quality of service and experience. The collaborative work being done in 3GPP and BBF standards paves the way to converge next generation fixed and wireless networks that allows network operators to provide a uniform experience to their customers independent of the access technology or digital appliances they would use.

Learnings:

1. Understand the drivers for broadband network convergence and benefits to service providers
2. Identify new deployment models with integrated fiber + radio technologies to connect the unconnected
3. Realize the benefits to the devices eco-system via network convergence

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VEEX

Evolution of PON Technology in Rural Markets and Testing Methodologies

Tecno Panyarath, Field Applications Engineer at VeEX, will present the evolution of PON technology in recent years and the various networks being deployed in rural markets across the country today.  As PON technology has evolved, so have the test instruments needed to provision them. Tecno will describe the tools and capabilities that installers require to ensure PON networks are delivering error-free services and allow for quick troubleshooting.

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S&S SOLUTIONS

PON Networks and how to test them.

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FIBER PROFESSIONAL

“Technical Hacks for Operational Efficiency”

We all want more time back in our days, but how do we make it happen? It seems like the harder we work, we just end up with more meetings on our calendar, more calls and texts received, and never-ending email volume in our inbox. In this seminar we’ll discuss tips, tricks, and strategies all of us in telco can implement immediately to start getting minutes and hours back. We can then use this time for more beneficial activities on the work and personal side.