Ron Hranac of CISCO

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Ron Hranac is a Technical Leader for Cisco Systems, Inc.’s cable access business unit, and is based in the company’s Centennial, Colorado office. In this role Ron represents Cisco on a variety of industry standards and specifications development subcommittees and working groups; provides high-level engineering support to Cisco’s customers; internal account team support; and works with new business development, marketing, and product development teams.

Prior to joining Cisco, he was Vice President, Engineering for High Speed Access International, a division of High Speed Access. Ron spent nine years as Senior Vice President - Engineering for Coaxial International, Inc., a Denver-based cable television consulting firm. He has been in the cable industry for more than 43 years, and also spent five years in commercial radio broadcasting. He began his cable career with TelePrompTer Cable TV in 1972 and moved to Jones Intercable, Inc. in the late 1970s. After nearly 11 years with Jones in various engineering capacities, Ron served as CT Publications’ Senior Vice President of Editorial. He was Senior Technology Editor and a monthly columnist for Communications Technology magazine, freelance roles held through the end of 2012.

                Ron’s industry activities include the publication of hundreds of articles and papers, and he is past chairman of a NCTA ad hoc subcommittee to research 75-ohm traceability at the then National Bureau of Standards. In 1997 he was inducted into the Cable TV Pioneers, and in both the 1998 and 1999 Western Cable Show issues of CableFAX Magazine was named among the cable industry’s 100 most influential people. He made the magazine’s “Also Influential” list in the 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 Western Cable Show issues. In 2011 Ron was among the inaugural inductees into Communications Technology’s Hall of Fame.

Ron joined the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers in 1979, and is a Fellow Member of the Society. He was an At-Large Director on its national Board of Directors from 1996 to 2002, and was Region 2 Director from 1987 to 1993. During that time he served as the national organization’s Secretary, President and Chairman. He currently is a member of SCTE’s Engineering Committee; Chairman of the Network Operations Subcommittee and the Network Operations Subcommittee’s Working Group 1; a member of the Fellow Member Subcommittee; and Certification Subcommittee; is past Chairman of the International Liaison Subcommittee; past member and Chairman of the Planning Committee and Senior Member Subcommittee; past member of SCTE’s Tech Tips Working Group, Interface Practices, Scholarship, and Broadband Communications Technician/Engineer (BCT/E) Certification Curriculum Subcommittees.

                In 1987 he became the first person in the cable industry to be certified in SCTE’s BCT/E program, and went on to complete certification at both its Technician and Engineer levels.  He also holds SCTE Broadband Distribution Specialist, Broadband Transport Specialist and Broadband TelecomCenter Specialist (with Data Endorsement) certifications, and during Cable-Tec Expo 2008 was recognized with Emeritus Certification status in these five certification categories. Elevated to Senior Member in 1986, he became the first Fellow Member of the Society in 1991. He was the first American to be elected an Honorary Fellow in the U.K. SCTE, the highest grade of membership in that organization. Ron was recipient of the 2016 Tom Hall award for Outstanding Services to Broadband Engineering by the U.K. SCTE.

When the U.S. SCTE restructured its Board and national staff positions in 1992, he became the Society’s first Chairman of the Board. Ron was awarded SCTE’s prestigious Member of the Year during Cable-Tec Expo 2004. At 2006’s Cable-Tec Expo, Ron was a co-recipient of the SCTE Chairman’s Award. During Cable-Tec Expo 2010, Ron was inducted into SCTE’s Hall of Fame.

                Ron is one of the founders of Society’s Rocky Mountain Chapter, is a past chapter Vice President, President and Treasurer, and served four terms on the local board of directors.

                He has been a speaker at numerous international, national, regional, and local conferences and seminars. He also has been a guest lecturer in the University of Colorado’s Masters in Telecommunications program, and a guest lecturer in the University of Denver’s astronomy program.

Ron Hranac of CISCO

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