Incognito Insights

DDI

As a result, we are stuck with SIP devices that have similar capabilities but are not configured in any similar way. This difference in configuration between SIP devices has caused some of...

Device Management

The difference is that instead of champagne and hot towels, TR-069 offers you the ability to see beyond the subscriber’s gateway and remotely manage customer-premises equipment. Why is this...

Service Orchestration

Prepaid billing offers a number of advantages. It allows you to launch new products that reach new market segments or offer add-on services to existing customers. To start with, prepaid...

Events

As usual, this year’s SCTE Cable-Tec Expo was packed with new product showcases, seminars, and workshops. I was keen to find the overarching theme of this year’s expo to determine the top...

DDI

It’s important to note that these deployments were made with very little intervention from our team at Incognito. This customer took up the task on their own and used the latest features...

General

1. The community working on the software How many people are working on the project? This is so important yet often overlooked. If the community is large, with hundreds of developers, then...

Events

1. Bandwidth, Bandwidth, Bandwidth With Internet traffic expected to quadruple by 2015 from 2010 levels, it is no surprise that bandwidth was a topic of interest this year. CMTS vendors at...

General

Vendors have found success by building equipment that lets service providers carry billions of packets from point A to point B and anywhere in between. That’s all very well, but rigid...

Best Practices Device Management

Right now, most MSOs have a small number of TR-069 devices, and many are undertaking in-lab testing to verify compliance and figure out how to best use this new technology. However, some...

DDI

Over the past year, we’ve been bombarded with requests about DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM). If you’re in the market for such a solution, let me give you a rundown of some important points to...

Network Analytics

1. Gather meaningful data Data can be powerful, but only if you gather the right type of information. Knowing that your network carried 4 trillion packets today is cool but more or less...

Device Management

The global home automation market is expected to reach $36 million by 2015. Without a doubt, consumers are attracted to enhanced security, better living standards, and the added convenience...

Device Management

Industry standards help simplify support for all the new gadgets coming out every week. However, it becomes more difficult to support multiple devices when different manufacturers choose to...

DOCSIS

Our customers were the who’s who of the corporate and government world; one of them being Northern Telecom (later known as Nortel). It had the first worldwide IP network and since Northern...

General

I started developing my own software for my customers (special releases at first). Then, I moved onto software that integrated Sun workstations with existing networks, providing a bridge...

Best Practices General

These days, there is a lot on a cable operator’s mind: the rising costs of programming, competition from Telco and Over-the-Top video, and the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth. Time and...

General DDI

We are entering a world of the dual internet protocol. IPv4 and IPv6 will coexist and collaborate for a number of years. In fact, IPv4 may be with us for so many years that it may never...

Events

One of the highlights of the year will be the Broadband World Forum 2012 in Amsterdam in October. Incognito is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of this event and our team will be on hand to...

Events

The conference started with a bang with 34 people taking part in Bootcamp, a one-day crash course in the Incognito product suite. The participants learned from our experienced support team...

DDI

The internet is no longer a “nice to have”; it’s become an everyday tool, almost an essential service that we rely on more and more. Not everyone has or needs to be connected 24/7 on the...