LA SCTE Chapter

For the BPI (Broadband Premises Installer) and BPT (Broadband Premises Technician) certifications, SCTE has a new training manual that is available for purchase. This is a SCTE publication and there is an associated course now available as well. Here are the links to get more information, or to order the manual or course:
http://www.scte.org/professional_development/BroadbandPremisesGuidebook/ and http://www.scte.org/professional_development/broadband_premises_installation_and_service_ecourse.aspx.

January 18, 2012
Board of Directors Planning Session Baton Rouge 1300-1600

February 22, 2012 Training Session Baton Rouge 0800-1600
February 23, 2012 Training Session New Orleans 0800-1600

• 1st Session 0800-11:30 CommScope: Cable Hardening
• 2nd Session 1300-1600 Megger: Bonding and Grounding

April 19, 2012
Board Meeting New Orleans 1300-1600

May 15, 2912 Training Session Lafayette 0800-1600
May 16, 2012 Training Session Baton Rouge 0800-1600
May 17, 2012 Training Session New Orleans 0800-1600

• 1st Session 0800-11:30 JDSU: Certifying the Drop
• 2nd Session 1300-1600 JDSU: Return Sweep

June 14, 2012
Vendor Day and Cable Games & Board Meeting at Baton Rouge Marriott (5500 Hilton)

July 17, 2012 Training Session Lafayette 0800-1600
July 18, 2012 Training Session Baton Rouge 0800-1600
July 19, 2012 Training Session New Orleans 0800-1600

• 1st Session 0800-11:30 Gilbert Connectors
• 2nd Session 1300-1600 Trilogy 

August 15, 2012 Board of Directors Meeting Lafayette 1300-1600

September 12, 2012 Training Session Lafayette 0800-1600
September 13, 2012 Training Session Baton Rouge 0800-1600
September 14, 2012 Training Session New Orleans 0800-1600

• 1st Session CommSonics: CLI 0800-11:30
• 2nd Session IPC: Distracted Driver 1300-1600

October 10, 2012
Board of Directors Meeting Baton Rouge 11:00-1600

October 11, 2012
Golf and Vendors Day (Copper Mill & Marriott Hotel)

December 12, 2012
SCTE Member Appreciation Day Lafayette, Baton Rouge and New Orleans. 0800-1600

The Louisiana SCTE Chapter will host training on May 15, 16, and 17 in Lafayette (1906 Eraste Landry Rd), Baton Rouge (7401 Florida Blvd), and Harahan (338 Edwards Av). Cox Communications will provide the training facilities at its respective locations in these cities. All SCTE members — and those interested in becoming a member — are welcome and encouraged to attend. This training is a benefit of your membership in SCTE.

The same training sessions will be presented in each city. Please plan to be seated by 8:00am at the location most convenient for you.

This quarterly training session will be presented by JDSU and Omega-Broadband. The morning session runs from 8:00am to 11:30am, and the topic will be “Certifying the Drop.” The afternoon session runs from 1pm to 4pm, and the topic will be “Return Sweep.”

For more information, contact any of these Chapter Board Members:

Wayne Callahan, Chapter President, SCTE® Louisiana Chapter
Email: Wayne@1ssb.com – Phone: 337-237-1053

Frank Roussell, Chapter Vice President, SCTE® Louisiana Chapter
Email: Frank.Roussell@cox.com – Phone: 504-358-6005

Michael Kovash, Chapter Treasurer, SCTE® Louisiana Chapter
Email: Michael.Kovash@cox.com  – Phone: 225-237-5349

SCTE® Louisiana Chapter May’s training session will be from (8:30am – 1pm) and will be presented by Mark Graves with Trilithic.

Training Objectives / Topics:
– Optical Fiber, What and Why?
– True Restoration of the Network
– Splicing the Fiber
– Fiber Testing using the OTDR, OSA, Light Meter and more…

Mark is a cable television industry veteran with over 20 years of technical and management experience with various MSO’s. Through his career Mark has held several positions in technical applications, quality assurance and project management. He holds multiple technical certifications through the NCTI and SCTE and is a certified SCTE Proctor.

Mark has been with Trilithic Inc since 2006 and has been in the Applications dept and presently holds a Sales Engineering position.

Dates:
May 17th – Lafayette – 1906 Eraste Landry, Lafayette, LA 70506
May 18th – Baton Rouge – 7401 Florida Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70806

Save the date!

The Louisiana SCTE Chapter would like to remind everyone that the 2011 Cable-Tec games are Wednesday, March 2nd.

Location:
Royal Sonesta Hotel (Bienville Room)
300 Bourbon Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
504-586-0300

Time:
9:00am to 3:00pm

Events:
Coaxial Cable Splicing
Optical Cable Splicing
Cable Jeopardy
Meter reading
OTDR & TDR reading
Drop Splicing

Agenda:
9:00–9:30AM Welcome and Registration
9:30–10:00AM Vendor /Supplier Introductions – Team Selection
10:00–12:00PM Games Begin
12:00-1:00PM Lunch Break
1:00-3:00PM Finish Games and Winner Announcements

In March, the Louisiana SCTE chapter organized a training session with Trilithic which covered Ingress, Egress, DOCSIS 3.0, Jitter, and Latency. We had the best turnout the chapter has seen with 122 participants between Baton Rouge, Lafayette, and New Orleans and could not have done this without your support!

On behalf of SCTE, we want to personally say “Thank You” for making our last session a huge success.

The Louisiana SCTE Board is dedicated to providing training sessions like this and we want to ensure that future training sessions are organized around topics that bring value to our members. We want the information that is covered during these sessions to provide answers and solutions to the challenges that you and your teams are faced with daily.

Your thoughts, suggestions and input are the key elements needed to organize successful training sessions that benefit everyone.

With that said, we are reaching out to everyone to get ideas for future training topics which you would like to see offered to ensure that we continue to provide a valuable resource for you and your teams.

Also, our next session will be:

May 12th – Lafayette
May 13th – Baton Rouge
May 14th – New Orleans

Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

Simply email me with your input and we will sort through the suggestions and see what we can do.

Regards,

Dane DeValcourt
dane.devalcourt@cox.com

Welcome to the Louisiana Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) Chapter.  SCTE  is a non-profit professional association that provides technical leadership for the telecommunications industry and serves its members through professional development, standards, certification and information. Since 1969, SCTE has continually expanded its resources and services to meet the changing needs of its members in a rapidly evolving industry. Today more than 14,000 CTOs, engineers, system operation managers, technicians, and field operations personnel from the U.S. and 70 countries worldwide depend upon SCTE to deliver the tools they need to maintain their competitive edge. SCTE has more than 68 chapters and meeting groups, and over 3,000 cable telecommunications professionals hold SCTE technical certifications. The Society continues to serve its diverse membership and the industry by offering a wide variety of educational programs and services. Here is a link to the National Website:  National SCTE