NCTA Announces Technical Sessions for 2005 National Show

NCTA Announces Technical Sessions for 2005 National Show Works by 29 Authors Added to NCTA Technical Papers(TM) Collection; To Be Made Available in Book and CD-ROM WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) today announced the selection of 29 leading broadband experts to write the 2005 NCTA Technical Papers(TM) and to take part in the technical sessions at The National Show, NCTA's 54th Annual Convention and International Exposition, scheduled for April 3-5 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The authors will present their papers as part of six technical sessions on topics including Premise and Consumer Electronics issues, Wide-Area Networking, Emerging On-Demand, Digital Rights Management and Next Generation Network architectures. The presenters were chosen from more than 150 submissions from across the cable and telecommunications industry. "This year's authors make up an unparalleled group of technology innovators and thought leaders representing the very best from cable and telecommunications," said Dan Pike, Chief Technical Officer, GCI Cable, Inc. and chair of this year's selection committee. "Our industry is truly putting consumers in control, empowering them to choose the programming and services they want -- when, where and on which devices they want them. We're able to do that in large part because of innovations such as those discussed by our authors." The authors will present 15-20 minute summaries of their work during Technical Sessions at The National Show. Session titles include: * Premises, Promises: Next-Gen Schemes For In-home Services Distribution * Moore on Shannon: Exploring Cable's Theoretical Limits * Wide-area Networking: Efficient Transport Over Converging Networks * Everything on Demand: Enabling Customer Control Through Emerging On- Demand Services * Next Generation Network Architecture * What's Mine is Mine: New Approaches in Digital Rights Management "For 45 years, the NCTA Technical Papers(TM) have featured the leading minds in the cable and telecommunications industry. This year is no different," said William Check, NCTA's Senior Vice President, Science & Technology. "We're proud of the accomplishments of our authors and look forward to the presentations of their cutting edge cable technology at this year's National Show." The NCTA Technical Papers(TM) has served as the most comprehensive record of the industry's technical knowledge for the past 45 years. An extensive collection of published works by the industry's most distinguished technical authors, the collection is regarded as a one of-a-kind archive of the advances in cable and telecommunications technology. The 2005 edition provides cable technologists the opportunity to express new engineering concepts -- and the science behind them -- while preserving them as a valuable resource for the engineering community. Convention attendees may purchase the 2005 NCTA Technical Papers(TM) in book or CD-ROM format at the special show price of $50.00; after the show, the books and CD-ROMs will cost $75. For more information, and to order the 2005 NCTA Technical Papers(TM) (or previous volumes in the series) call the NCTA Industry Affairs Department at 202-775-3669. NCTA is the principal trade association of the cable television industry in the United States. NCTA represents cable operators serving more than 90 percent of the nation's cable television households and more than 200 cable program networks, as well as equipment suppliers and providers of other services to the cable industry. Source: National Cable & Telecommunications Association CONTACT: Rob Stoddard or Brian Dietz of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, +1-202-775-3629; or Eric Thomas of the Fratelli Group, +1-202-822-9491, for the National Cable & Telecommunications Association Web site: http://www.ncta.com/ ------- Profile: International Entertainment