Incognito Insights

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...

DDI

Great things can also be said about IPv6. One of the main Brazilian operators is planning to activate IPv6 as early as Q3 of this year. Dual stack is going to be implemented everywhere and...

DDI

Not many providers have spent the time to look into managing address space. Most have an action plan for CMTS, routing, CPEs, and in some rare cases, even consumer messages, but that’s...

General

Standards are supposed to hold companies accountable! But the truth will always reveal itself.

DDI

The point to be made here is that the origins of the Internet so many years ago held a belief that interconnectivity ought to be pervasive. NAT architectures in the network core speak...

Network Analytics

Metering gives a clear picture of your network and pinpoints future hotspots, bottlenecks, etc. It can also be a valuable tool in capacity planning and gauging your network’s ability to...

DDI

IPv6 is a stronghold solution with all the required features built-in instead of stuck-on as an afterthought. When IPv6 becomes ubiquitous, software engineers can rejoice in the fact that...

DDI

For anyone who’s been to Hong Kong, you know that every inch of earth is covered by a high rise. Even so, the city is continually creating more living space by reclaiming land from the sea;...