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DDI DOCSIS

DOCSIS 4.0—touted as the foundation to 10G and next-generation cable networks and services—is real, it's coming, and, like all innovations, it brings opportunities and challenges.

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Cable providers today are under more pressure than ever to offer a gigabit experience to enterprise and residential customers. Recent updates with DOCSIS 3.1 have dramatically increased...

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For Cable MSOs deploying voice services, the ability to implement and manage Dynamic DNS (DDNS) is essential. However, DDNS updates pose significant challenges for large Tier 1 and 2...

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Unintegrated IPAM can also create risks to subscriber services. When large volumes of IPv4 resources are assigned on a network, name-space collisions caused by duplicate IP assignments may...

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IPv4 is a finite resource, but IPv6 is huge. The length of an IPv6 address is 128 bits, compared with 32 bits in IPv4. In theory, this means an almost endless number of combinations can be...

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Lease data plays an important role in subscriber identification, and developing your own database of historical and/or active leases can be helpful to fulfill law enforcement requests and...

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As service providers increasingly employ virtualized network architectures to service their customers, vLAN and MPLS/VRF management is becoming more and more important. But challenges...

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In theory, this is a great idea, particularly in regions prone to tornadoes or other localized natural disasters. However, there are a number of pros and cons that you need to weigh to...

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A centralized repository that maintains information on all the leases across your network provides an easy way to process and respond to these types of requests accurately and quickly.

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There are a number of DOCSIS-specific specifications designed to address this problem:

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To your average broadband customer, DOCSIS 3.1 satisfies one craving — faster Internet speeds. Most Internet users don’t care how or why the specification works, they just want the end...

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Most communication service providers are in the process of transitioning to IPv6. But there is still a lot of work to be done.

General DDI

Basically, it’s time to stop the excuses. IPv6 is the future and ignoring it could put you at risk because no business can truly expect to grow without IPv6. Already, the fastest-growing...

Best Practices DDI

Traditionally, firmware files were quite small. But with embedded routers, eMTA, CWMP TR-069 settings, and other sections, firmware file sizes are growing. This can affect normal CM...

DDI DOCSIS

Imagine a solution for your firmware management that enables you to perform these upgrades in a simple, flexible, and safe way.

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What are these strategies? That’s what we want to find out. For the second year in a row, Incognito is running a global survey of communication service providers to find out IPv6 plans and...

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Whether you’re stretching out existing IPv4 resources, making preparations for IPv6, or already offering IPv6 to end users, we want to hear from you. For the second year, Incognito is...

DDI Network Analytics

IPDR allows the collection of data from the CMTS in streams. Not only can you pinpoint – with high accuracy – the utilization of every cable modem on your network, but you can also identify...

Best Practices DDI

In recent years, CMTS vendors have expanded their support of IPDR to provide access to more network and subscriber usage information. This data can be used for congestion management,...

Best Practices DDI

Network architects, IP planners, and network engineers understand the benefits of having an updated inventory of all the IP configurations on their devices — optimized IP resources, IP...

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Implementing IPv6 is a big project that involves more than just network planners and engineers. When it comes to making this kind of investment, you need to make sure that your higher-ups...

DDI DOCSIS

As the article states: “The basic reasons firmware must be upgraded are the same as they always have been, but that the pace has accelerated radically. It is, in essence, a whole new...

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The survey found that while 14% of providers have deployed IPv6 on their networks, only 4% have started offering IPv6 addresses to end users. This slow deployment can be attributed to...

Events DDI Device Management

One of the operators in attendance even suggested that different tracks for business, operations, and technical departments would be beneficial next year, since the event has grown so...

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Sometime around the turn of the century, Internet Explorer became the dominant browser. Riding on a 90% market share for Windows, the incumbent – Netscape Navigator – did not stand a...

Best Practices DDI

More organizations are moving towards cloud and private-cloud hosted services because IT departments are under pressure to decrease operational costs. The cost-effectiveness of cloud...

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That’s why I’m excited to announce the two latest speakers to join the lineup of our upcoming Incognito Community Exchange (ICE) 2013 event in Cancun, Mexico. These speakers will present...

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1. IPv6 is Not Yet Seen as Necessary Only a small percentage of Internet traffic currently runs on IPv6 and many operators feel that they have enough IP addresses to meet their needs....

Events General DDI

Smaller providers are also less likely to have implemented a strategy to combat the growth of OTT services. A quarter (25%) of respondents with fewer than 100,000 subscribers did not yet...

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A lot of the focus on IPv6 has been on service providers, who feel pressure from all sides to enable IPv6 support and speed up adoption. Dual-stack transition methods only serve to...

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It’s no secret that the future of IP networking lies in IPv6. While transition challenges remain, the benefits of IPv6 far outweigh the costs. IPv6 offers greater efficiency, security, and...

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Planning 1. Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) have a host of resources available on IPv6 and allocation guidelines. This presentation fromRIPE NCC outlines IPv6 addressing fundamentals.

Best Practices DDI

You may have already read some of the IPv6 literature on the IETF website, followed the progress of industry leaders like Comcast, or started investigating options such as dual-stack...

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As the number of devices connected to the Internet increases, IPv4 addresses are becoming scarcer, and network administrators are spending more time than ever managing IP address space....

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By now, it’s likely that many of you have started looking atwhichIPv6 transition option is best for your business. Regardless of your decision, you can be sure that IPv6 will present a...

Best Practices DDI

IPv4 is likely to co-exist with IPv6 for some time, so a native dual-stack migration strategy will be the best transition option for most providers. Dual-stack mode allows both IPv4 and...

DDI DOCSIS

OSPFv3 With its larger set of extensions and features, OSPFv3 is suited to the functional enhancements and topological flexibilities built into IPv6. The routing platform can quickly adjust...

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The IPv6 address was designed to remove the threat of address exhaustion for the foreseeable future. Based on a 128-bit numbering scheme, the IPv6 protocol provides approximately 2^96 times...

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Rather than dismissing the possibility of address exhaustion at a future date, we should learn from past experiences. When we first started deploying IPv4, we had no idea that the IPv4...

Best Practices DDI

1. Understand What You Already Have IPv6 is more than just a bigger and better version of IPv4. A successful IPv6 deployment will actually give you the chance to right some of the wrongs of...

General DDI Device Management

1. OTT At top of the list is everything over-the-top (OTT) related, and specifically, how service providers can manage bandwidth with the growing abundance of OTT providers such as Netflix....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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;...

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The first month of 2012 is ending as I write. Do you remember what you resolved a month ago? With experts telling us that New Year’s resolutions have an 80 percent failure rate, I’m...

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On the other hand, I could easily find every type of iPhone case ever created.

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What did I do personally on the Day? I looked I at new drafts for work coming out from the IETF around extensions to DHCPv6 related to mobile technology and mobile EAP authentication...

DDI DOCSIS

Cable operators of DOCSIS networks have come to rely on the Cable Modem MAC address as the unique key to associate with a subscriber record in their back office systems. For wireline...

Best Practices DDI

I am bringing this up as I think about IPv6. Should you take the leap? Should you be the first? Do you want to see everyone else in it before you? Unlike skydiving, you won’t have a choice...