April 19, 2017
Holiday Inn- Fond Du Lac
625 W Rolling Meadows Dr
Fond Du Lac, WI
The SCTE Badger State Chapter Presents:Node Health SCTE Badger State Chapter will be presenting Node health seminars on Wednesday, April 19th, 2017 in Fond Du Lac and repeatedThursday. April 20th 2017 in Eau Claire. This seminar will be a broad look at identifying and analyzing the negative impacts which effect the health and performance of the HFC network. A full day of topics ranging from Return Path monitoring, Upstream and Downstream testing, DOCSIS Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM), Outside plant 101, and best practices. DATE - LOCATION: WHEN: Wednesday – April 19th,2017 WHERE: Holiday Inn: 625 W. Rolling Meadows Drive Fond du Lac, WI - 920-923-1440 WHEN: Thursday – April 20th.2016 WHERE:Sleep Inn and Suites:5872 33rd Ave, Eau Claire, WI - 715-874-2900 AGENDA: 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM: Registration- Continental Breakfast 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM: Chapter Business 9:15 AM - 10:30 AM: Return Path Monitoring & OSP Impairment Testing – Viavi; Al Silva 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM: Break 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM: HFC Amp set up, Unity gain, Proper Amp set up, AGC’s -Arris; Richard Hager 12:00 to 1:00 PM: Lunch 1:00 PM to 2:20 pm: DOCSIS version comparison, FEC, Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM) -Spectrum; Randy Dart 2:20 PM - 2:40 PM: Break 2:40PM to 4:00 PM: Node Health - analyzing, scoring, tools, Best Practices, - Spectrum;Jack Arneson Cost for Seminar; $30 Non-Member, $20 SCTE Member. Questions: Randy Bunnell, rbunnell@broadband-solutions.com