The organisers of the IPTV World Forum are launching a new conference stream to be co-located at the IPTV World Forum, March, 2008, called IP Cable. The event will feature worldwide cable operators, leading industry consultants and the technology providers who are involved in cable migration plans to IP.

The IP Cable conference is taking place at the London Olympia from the 12th – 13th March 2008.

Speakers include:

• Kaj Skov, Executive Vice President & CTO Telia Stofa,
• Kevin Baughan the Director of Technical Strategy Virgin Media,
• Balan Nair, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Liberty Global, Inc.
• Anu Nissinen, President, Welho.
• Jan Vorstermans, EVP, Technology & Infrastructure Managemen, Telenet,
• Martin Kull, Chief Technology Officer, Com Hem,
• Manuel Sequeira. Chief Technologi, TV Cabo,
• William Gaston, President, Marco Island Cable
• Bartlomiej Kasinski, Strategy and Development Director, Multimedia Polska.

In this carefully constructed conference stream, Cable IP will cover Switched Digital Video, channel bonding, DOCSIS video, DOCSIS bypass, fibre-to-the-premise, one-to-one advertising and all the transport, headend and customer premise technology considerations that fall within these subject headings. Ian Johnson, Managing Director of show organisers Junction Ltd commented “The 2 day IP Cable show will share an exhibition floor with the IPTV World Forum 2008, which last year attracted over 5000 visitors. Primary topics that will be discussed at the conference include the issues associated with the next generation of cable TV as it seeks more multicasting, unicasting, switching and IP switching.”

Show highlights include:

• Featuring over 10 cable operators discussing migration plans, business models and strategies for cable IPTV
• Listen to platform operators and system integrators discussing the benefits of video-over-IP and understand why cable needs it.
• Hear from leading analyst and consultants discussing next-generation Cable TV in 2010 and beyond
• Learn from the top vendors about the next wave of technologies available to cable operators to compete with IPTV
• Over 200 exhibitors, and over 7000 attendees expected