Incognito Insights

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.

General DDI

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...