Published Papers and Articles

  1.  Lamar West, "Thermal Characteristics of Modern Feed-Forward CATV Amplifiers," pp. 97-101, 1985  Proceedings from the Technical Sessions, 39thAnnual Convention and Exposition of the National Cable Television Association
  2. Lamar West, "Standard Methods for Calculation of Carrier to Noise Ratios in Modern CATV Equipment," pp. 102-109, 1985  Proceedings from the Technical Sessions, 39th Annual Convention and Exposition of the National Cable Television Association
  3. Lamar West, "Cable Television Opportunities in the Lodging Industry with Impulse Pay-Per-View Technology," pp. 126-133, 1986  Proceedings from the Technical Sessions, 40th Annual Convention and Exposition of the National Cable Television Association
  4. A. Cook, J. Farmer, L. West, "A New Option In Subscriber Control," pp 217-225, 1987  Proceedings from the Technical Sessions, 41st Annual Convention and Exposition of the National Cable Television Association Note: This paper was reprinted as the cover feature article in the June, 1987 issue of CED (Communication, Engineering and Design) Magazine.
  5. J. Farmer and L. West, "CATV Hardware Trends", IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. CE-33, No. 3, August 1987
  6. L. West et al, "Off Premises Technology Comparisons", pp 39-46, 1989  Proceedings from the Technical Sessions, 43st Annual Convention and Exposition of the National Cable Television Association
  7. L. West, "A New Technique for Measuring Broadband Distortion in Systems with Mixed Analog and Digital Video", pp 273-279, 1992  Proceedings from the Technical Sessions, 46st Annual Convention and Exposition of the National Cable Television Association  Note: This paper was reprinted as a section in Digital Video, Concepts and Applications Across Industries, pp 399-405, edited by Ted Rzeszewski, 1995, IEEE Press
  8. L. West, "On Determining the Optimum Modulation Index for Reverse Path Lasers in Hybrid Fiber/Coax Networks," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol 8, No. 11, pp. 1555-1557, November 1996  Note: This paper was reprinted in the March 1997 issue of CED (Communication, Engineering and Design) Magazine
  9. L. West, "Noise Spectra, Non-linear Responses and Signal-to-noise Ratio,"  Reverse Path, an Executive Forum, Presented by Scientific-Atlanta, Inc, December 3rd, 1996
  10. L. West, "Composite Power and its Effect on Reverse Path laser Clipping," pp 295-300, 1987  Proceedings from the 1997 Conference on Emerging Technologies, Society of Cable Telecommunication Engineers, January 8-10, 1997  Note: This paper was reprinted in the April 1997 issue of  CT (Communications Technology) Magazine
  11. L. West, "An Improved Method for Predicting the Effect of QAM on AM VSB Carriers in Broadband SCM Networks," pp. 89-94, Proceedings of the 1997 Western Multiconference, Conference on Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation, January 12-15, 1997
  12. L. West, "Laser Loading Theory,"  An HFC Reverse Path Symposium, Presented by Scientific-Atlanta, Inc, Spring 1997
  13. L. West, "An HFC Reverse Path System Design Approach," An HFC Reverse Path Symposium, Presented by Scientific-Atlanta, Inc, Spring 1997
  14. L. West, "Analysis of Reverse Path Laser Loading in HFC Networks," Proceedings of the joint SCTE and IEEE Communications Society conference on High Integrity Hybrid Fiber-Coax Networks, Phoenix Arizona, September 7-9, 1997
  15. West, et. al., "Advent of HFC Networks Spells Death to XMOD," pp. 25-28, CED (Communication, Engineering and Design) Magazine, September, 1998
  16. West, Lamar, "The Effect of Preamplifier Compression on Measured Noise Power Ratios," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol 12, No. 7 pp. 924-926, July, 2000
  17. West, Lamar, "The effect of Companding on Baseband Digital Reverse," Scientific-Atlanta White Paper, 2001
  18. L. West, "Reverse path design for DOCSIS 3.0 and beyond - Part 1: The long loop ALC," CED Magazine.com - December 01, 2008
  19. L. West, "Reverse Path Design for Docsis 3.0 and Beyond - Part 2: Optical Link Dynamic Range," CED Magazine.com - December 01, 2008
  20. L West, “Reverse Path Design for Docsis 3.0 and Beyond - Part 3: Link Budget and System Set-Up” CED Magazine.com - December 01, 2008
  21. Jack Moran, Lamar West, Daniel Howard, "Evaluating HFC Network Readiness For Deployment of D3.1 Technology and Services," Proceedings of the SCTE/ISBE Cable Tec EXPO, 2016, Philadelphia, PA
  22. Gary Mitchinson, Daniel Howard, Todd Loeffelholz, Rene Spee, Chuck Carroll, Lamar West, "Measuring and Baselining Power Consumption in Outside Plant Equipment and Power Supplies," Proceedings of the SCTE/ISBE Cable Tec EXPO, 2016, Philadelphia, PA
  23. Daniel Howard et al., "Operational Practices for Energy Conservation/Sustainability Measures in the Cable Outside Plant", Proceedings of the SCTE-ISBE CABLE-TEC 2018 Technical Forum
  24. Lamar West, "A Proposed Optimized Frequency Loading to Obtain Maximal Energy Savings in Launch Amplifier Low-Power Mode", SCTE-ISBE Journal of Energy Management, Vol. 4 No. 1 January 2019, pp. 16-27
  25. Numerous modules and other content for SCTE/ISBE Learning and Development (L&D) training courses