OSP EXPO offers substantive, high-quality educational seminars for outside plant professionals in the telecommunications industry. The seminars are approved to award Continuing Education Credits (CECs) from both BICSI and the Electronics Technicians Association Int'l (ETA-I), COC points from the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP), and Certified Utility Safety Administrator Program (CUSA) points from the National Safety Council.

Regular and Advanced Seminars

The Regular Seminars, presented Wednesday, October 22 and Thursday, October 23, are free to everyone who attends OSP EXPO 2008 and they do not require pre-registration. Advanced Seminars, presented on Tuesday, October 21, require pre-registration and pre-paid tuition. Full descriptions of all seminars will be available in May.

OSP EXPO 2008 Seminar Tracks

1. Carrier Grade Ethernet Market Trends for High-Bandwidth Business Service Demands
2. Evolution of PON Technology: From BPON to GPON
3. In-Home Date and Media Networking and the OSP
4. Network Planning / Engineering / Construction Realities
5. OSP Safety
6. Powering the OSP
7. MDUs: Overlay and Greenfield Solutions
8. Technical Troubleshooting and Network Management for OSP Operational Efficiencies
9. Triple Play / IPTV Migration for the Legacy Infrastructure

Top 10 Seminars at OSP EXPO 2007

1. Deploying Fiber to the Most Economic Point - Alcatel-Lucent
2. Bandwidth Bottleneck at the Metro Level - AT&T
3. Completing the Run: IPTV Strategies from the Residential Gateway to the Set-Top Box - Comtrend Corporation
4. First Mile Ethernet Fiber Access and 802.3ah OAM - Omnitron Systems
5. Optimizing FTTH Cabling System Technologies and Designs for Single Family and Multi-Dwelling Unit Applications - OFS
6. OSP Product Introduction & Evaluation Process at AT&T - AT&T
7. The New VDSL2 Standard: Unifying the Local Loop - Aktino
8. Enabling the Consumer-Driven Ultra-Broadband World - Motorola
9. Expanding DSL Boundaries: A Pioneer Telephone Cooperative Case History - Charles Industries
10. Troubleshooting the Copper Plant for IP Services – JDSU