Incognito Insights

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...