Carlos Bustamante's Top Broadband Technology Predictions for 2018 With industry trends changing up to the minute, it's always good to know what lies ahead, so we've asked our resident smart guy, Carlos Bustamante, VP of [...]
When Wi-Fi technology first started taking off, people were connecting one or two devices to their Wi-Fi network. Today it’s a WiFi party with most households having at least four connected devices and planning to [...]
Can your networks handle anticipated increases in information flow related to Internet of Things (IoT) optimization? Subscriber to Service Provider: “So what you’re telling me Mr. Internet Provider is that I can run my lawn sprinkler [...]
The term Internet of Things was first coined by Kevin Ashton in 1999, but actually, the Internet of Things goes back a lot further than merely 15 years. In fact, already in 1926, we saw [...]
Sitting with a group of people at halftime last weekend, I threw out the phrase The Internet of Things and asked them what they thought it was or would be. (Without looking it up on [...]
2015 Broadband Predictions: The Year in Review As with everything, technology is hard to predict. No matter how many strategic moves are made by big players, it’s only when time passes that we can gauge [...]
Migrating to DHCP In this edition of Ask a Broadband Expert we provide insight into why a telco or DSL operator should migrate to DHCP from PPPoE or PPPoA. And, if you are a broadband operator [...]
The question for IPv6 is not “if” but “when” In late July the CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the numbering authority that hands out Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, announced that it may [...]
The New Look of Plant Maintenance If you read last week’s Part 1 in our DOCSIS series and the white paper on the Evolution of DOCSIS, you now have a better understanding of why we [...]
DOCSIS in the Nick of Time Gigabit-class broadband is capturing the imagination of Internet users throughout the country. With Google and other companies bringing fiber-based services that deliver a gigabit of data each second to [...]
What’s Coming with DOCSIS 3.1 and What You Need to Know Today So now 3.1... Seven years down the road from DOCSIS 3.0 the increasing subscriber demand for bandwidth intensive content and the competition from FTTH [...]
SCTE's Steve Harris on DOCSIS PNM Training DOCSIS Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM) allows cable operators to leverage existing technology to troubleshoot and maintain their network more efficiently. Steve Harris, Senior Director of Advanced Network Technologies, [...]
