New technology is offering a lifeline for bandwidth pressed providers. A shift in the access architecture that will move some or all of the CMTS processing layers out to the plant and closer to the subscriber will increase capacity and expand the [...]
As a cable operator you have to do a lot of path monitoring to gauge the health of your plant. Most often the problems are in the upstream signals, but the downstream, while typically a “cleaner” set of frequencies, has challenges of its own and is [...]
The buzz in the broadband industry these days is 5G. That’s not G as in Gigabytes. That’s G as in Generation. 5G is the latest generation of cellular technology, and some say that it could replace the need for wired broadband connections in the [...]
Access to high-speed Internet in the U.S. has improved significantly over the years, but there are still some unserved and underserved rural communities where slow internet service is impacting the people who live, work and go to school there. The [...]
As the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. There are some best practices that service providers should take into account to protect themselves from a DDoS attack, which can impact their network, as well as the service they [...]
DDoS attacks have continued to increase in number and sophistication, including those that can now leverage consumer IoT devices as a part of the attack. Who is behind DDoS attacks and what is their motivation? There are different reasons why DDoS [...]
Since the beginning of the cable TV era, countless TV programming negotiations between operators and the program owners have been haggled over, and mostly lost, by operators. That’s because for years operators have relied on simple counts to measure [...]
Diagnostics tools on a DOCSIS network have traditionallybeen part of a reactive, break-fix methodology, where the operator is notified about issues in their plant AFTER service for subscribers have been impacted. In fact, it is often complaints [...]
Codewords are a key feature and an important check on data transmission in DOCSIS networks. They are are often able to recreate bad bits of data corrupted by linear distortions and noise in the cable plant if the corruption is not too bad (a [...]
If you are an ISP and haven't experienced your own IPv4 shortage yet, you most likely have heard that IPv4 addresses are getting hard to come by. This is sending many Internet providers into panic mode when they realize they are almost out. The end [...]