1. ETSI TC Cable in a nutshell cable@list.etsi.org
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2. ETSI TC Cable – main goal
TC CABLE has the primary goal of harmonizing all technical specifications that enable integrated broadband cable and television networks. It is the lead technical committee for the development of ETSI deliverables relating to broadband cable and television networks using hybrid fiber coaxial technology.        The deliverables are in areas including the following: 1 2
Specifications for integrated broadband cable and television network equipment including HFC network distribution 4 3
TC Cable deliverables
Specifications for integrated broadband cable and television network terminals, including cable CPE and network terminating devices
Specifications for integrated broadband cable and television access network infrastructure, including network topologies and functional requirements, DOCSIS and frequency management
Specifications for integrated broadband cable and television services (e.g. voice, data, video)
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3. ETSI TC Cable – Organisation
Chairman
Paulo Valente
Vice-Chairman
Volker Leisse
ETSI Technical Officer
Sylwia Korycinska
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WG 1 Chairman
Volker Leisse
WG 2 Chairman
Carsten Engelke
WG 3 Chairman
Margo Dolas
WG 4 Chairman
Volker Leisse
  Architecture, Interfaces, Protocols
HFC Distribution, Installation, Operational Best Practices
Engineering, Efficiency and Sustainability
Network, Fault, Monitoring and Performance Management and Test & Measurement Best Practices 2

4. ETSI TC Cable – Working Groups
Activities
Creation, development and maintenance of Standards and other ETSI deliverables related to:   
Cable system architectures and architectural elements
Network and system interfaces
Data over cable systems
Advanced head-end architectures
Customer Premises Equipment and Home Networks
Cable-Mobile systems including their architecture elements for: (1) Wifi; (2) Mobile; (3) Core network; (4) Convergence
Review and contribution to activities of other ETSI Technical Bodies and external organizations requiring expertise in architectures, interfaces and protocols of HFC networks 
WG1
Architecture, Interfaces, Protocols
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Creation, development and maintenance of Standards and other ETSI deliverables related to:   
HFC network infrastructure and distribution
Physical HFC plant technologies and characteristics
Frequency and spectrum management within HFC networks
Establishment of operational guidelines to share experiences and promote best practices
Review and contribution to activities of other ETSI Technical Bodies and external organizations requiring expertise in HFC networks
WG2
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5. ETSI TC Cable – Working Groups
Activities
Creation, development and maintenance of Standards and other ETSI deliverables related to
Energy Efficiency Requirements
Energy Efficiency Metrics
Sustainability Requirements
Headend Equipment
Outside Plant Equipment
Customer Premises Equipment
Establishment of operational and engineering guidelines to share experiences and promote best practices
Review and contribution to activities of other ETSI Technical Bodies and external organizations requiring expertise in energy efficiency and sustainability of HFC networks
WG3
Engineering, Efficiency and Sustainability
Creation, development and maintenance of Standards and other ETSI deliverables related to   
All parts of the end to end network
In-home network
Access and distribution network
Core network
Systems
Services
Establishment of technical guidelines/reports, implementation guidelines, specifications and promote best practises.
Review and contribution to activities of other ETSI Technical Bodies and external organizations requiring expertise related to the area of responsibility
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WG4
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6. ETSI TC Cable – Main Supporters
Main supporters of TC Cable activity and deliverables
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Together, these supporters, represent and produce deliverables to a sector which goes into the home of 63.7 million customers in the European Union, providing Digital TV, Broadband Internet, and Telephony services 5

7. ETSI TC Cable in a nutshell v.2016
ETSI TC Cable – History
Backup history
In 2009 major players in cable technology development came together to form a cable standardization project within ETSI to ascertain whether the industry's ideas, already tested as sound business objectives via the research and development programs already in place, could be formally standardized by ETSI.
Cable industry executives were keen to evaluate the value of standardization through ETSI, given the resources required to do so compared to other standardization models.
The project was established under the technical committee ATTM and very quickly encouraged other cable stakeholders to become members of ETSI, in order to support the work. The project then evolved into a working group, ATTM-AT3, which has successfully produced 5 ENs, 25 TSs, and 4 TRs to address the market needs for standardized technology. Also in the course of its standardization work it has established collaboration with other ETSI TCs and external fora including ITU-T SG9 and the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE).
The developed standards include the ETSI EN series, which is the current international standard for the DOCSIS 3.0 technology capable of providing broadband services in excess of 1 Gbps over existing coax infrastructure.
With the formation of ATTM-AT3, organizations involved in the European cable industry have become actively involved in the ETSI standardization process, especially in core standardization activity addressing cable matters. Due to the limited scope of ATTM-AT3, the creation of TC Cable was proposed and approved on Board #89 (September 2012).
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8. ETSI TC Cable – Main contributions
Activities 1
Doc. Nb. EN Ver
Integrated broadband cable telecommunication networks (CABLE);
Energy management; Global KPIs; Operational infrastructures; Part 2: Specific requirements;
Sub-part 4: Cable Access Networks 2
Doc. Nb. ES Ver 3
Doc. Nb. ES Ver
Embedded Router 4
Doc. Nb. ES Ver
DOCSIS® Layer 2 Virtual Private Networking 5
Doc. Nb. ES Ver
Cabinet DOCSIS (C-DOCSIS) System Specification 6
Doc. Nb. ES Ver
Converged Cable Access Platform;
Operational Support System Interface 7
Doc. Nb. TR Ver
Broadband Deployment and Energy Management;
Part 6: Cable Access Networks 8
Doc. Nb. TS Ver
Performance characteristics of coaxial cables used for RF signal transmission in hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) telecommunication networks 9
Doc. Nb. TS Ver
IPv6 Transition Technology Engineering and Operational Aspects;
Part 6: 6RD
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