NCTA Policy Experience

NCTA Presents:
The Continuum An Experiential Industry Innovation Exhibit

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The Continuum is an experiential, policy-focused exhibit that helps tell the industry’s positive stories on innovation and investment while shining a light on the key policies that propel it forward.

Attendees will join our tour guides on a journey through a series of thematic “portals”, each focused on a specific set of innovative new technologies and their impact on everyday life.

Through a combination of rich visuals and technology exhibits, The Continuum captures the spirit of American ingenuity and the industry’s longstanding commitment to continual innovation – and there is no end in sight. At a pivotal point in technological evolution, our industry is uniquely positioned to help America realize its ambitions for the information age while powering amazing new experiences for consumers.

Produced in partnership with CableLabs, The Continuum features the following thematic portals:

Relentless Innovation

From Wire to Wonder — Cable has a proven history of disruptive evolution, pushing boundaries to deliver feature-rich HD and 4K video, to delivering multi-gigabit, symmetrical broadband that provides millions of Americans reliable internet from coast to coast, to developing innovative, competitive mobile offerings that leverage network investments to provide new value to consumers. This opening chapter sets up the key pillars of our technology evolution and consumer value story in the video, streaming, broadband, wireless, mobile and business services categories.

Delivering Gigabit Speeds at Scale with DOCSIS 4 – plus a peek at the next generation of DOCSIS, and the next giant leap in our network evolution story.
The Future of TV is Broadband – and our powerful streaming platforms offer more choice, more features, more convenience and more value than ever.
The Best In-home Wi-fi-Experience – the latest in powerful gateways and the advanced features they provide consumers.
Mobile Market Disrupters – with more than 20 million Cable mobile connections and growing, we aggressive competitors in the mobile space, offering consumers the latest devices, powerful features and lasting value to mobile consumers.

Policies That Power Innovation

See real-world examples of how innovative policies drive investment, jobs, broadband access — and make the case for balanced spectrum policy through video, an interactive deployment story map, and live dashboards showcasing Wi-Fi usage. These exhibits highlight the transformative impact of forward-thinking regulations on connectivity and innovation across America.

Featured Technologies:

America’s Largest Broadband Provider – an interactive map of rural broadband deployments and the positive impact they have on rural communities.
Building Smarter and Faster – using geospatial intelligence and drone-mounted sensors to assess the viability of future deployment routes.
Unleashing Wireless Innovation

Seamless Connectivity

When We Share Spectrum, We Multiply Innovation. Cable and other wireless innovators rely on the availability of spectrum to give American innovators and consumers access to seamless connectivity – across wired and wireless networks – that is unleashing a whole new wave of products and services.

The Future is Dynamic - CableLabs spectrum monitoring demonstration will show live displays of technology that can inform spectrum sharing.
Innovating in the CBRS band - see the equipment delivering live 5G over CBRS up close along with a CBRS use case gallery.
Innovating for next-gen mobile - Charter demonstrates how 5G NROC technology utilizes spectrum available in the wired network can be combined with shared wireless spectrum to expand mobile network capacity.

Reliability, Security, and Resilience

Our AI-powered networks are built to withstand natural disasters and proactively defends users and the nation against cyberattack.

Featured Technologies:

Always On Digital Safety - A live look at Cujo AI, an advanced cybersecurity solution used by operators to keep customers and the network safe.
GOLD: AI-Based Outage Detection - a Comcast global outage detection system that collects real-time information during storms.
Octave: AI-based Network Optimization - a demonstration showing how we can detect fiber cuts down to the foot allowing for speedy service restoration.
The Agentic Edge - Cox harnesses agentic Wi-Fi in field operations to optimize technician work and safety.
After the Storm - an exhibit featuring a newly- released NCTA docufilm that tells the story of how our network operators use innovative technologies and cooperate closely with government and public utilities to restore critical communications services following an ever-increasing number of disasters. See them all here – including Charter’s mobile Wi-Fi vehicle.

Intelligence in the Network

The Network Built to Power AI — is enabling the network of tomorrow to deliver the quality of experience our customers expect.

Featured Technologies:

Immersive Entertainment

The next era of the Internet offers the promise of nearly unconstrained speed and capacity, powering unlimited possibility. These innovations will enable immersive experiences at scale, giving consumers the ability to engage in the most immersive entertainment, educational and exploratory experiences possible.

Featured Technologies:

Peacock demonstrates immersive sports experiences in Enhanced 4k resolution on the big screen.
Giving viewers the option to select their preferred view in live sports is one example of how multi-viewing angle technology is powering the future of immersive entertainment.
See the low latency, low lag advantage among video gamers in a side-by-side network performance experience.
Giving viewers the option to select their preferred view in live sports is one example of how multi-viewing angle technology is powering the future of immersive entertainment
High-speed, high-capacity networks offer the sort of sustained speed and capacity to power tomorrow’s advanced, holographic light field displays.
The worlds of virtual, augmented and mixed reality technologies are the cornerstones of immersive experience. See the latest in mixed reality technology and applications from leading gear makers.

The Continuum Schedule Overview

Mon, Sep 29

10:45 am- 6:00pm
Continuum Exhibit Hours
12:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Tech Policy Track Sessions
12:45 pm - 4:30 pm
NCTA Hill Staff Panel & Exhibit Tours
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
NCTA Media Happy Hour/Exhibit Tours

Tue, Sep 30

8:00 am-6:00 pm
Continuum Exhibit Hours
8:00 am- 10:00 am
Congressional Breakfast and
Exhibit Tours
(invitation only)
11:30 am - 4:30 pm
Tech Policy Track Sessions

Wed, Oct 1

9:00 am-1:00 pm
Continuum Exhibit Hours

Accommodation

Booking your accommodation through our appointed housing partner guarantees you will meet other attendees after hours. These are hotels close to the venue.

More people, more connections

With so much going on and so many people to meet, you may need to bring along a colleague or your team to ensure you meet all the right people and cover more ground.