Incognito Insights

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...

Device Management

The global home automation market is expected to reach $36 million by 2015. Without a doubt, consumers are attracted to enhanced security, better living standards, and the added convenience...

Device Management

Industry standards help simplify support for all the new gadgets coming out every week. However, it becomes more difficult to support multiple devices when different manufacturers choose to...

DOCSIS

Our customers were the who’s who of the corporate and government world; one of them being Northern Telecom (later known as Nortel). It had the first worldwide IP network and since Northern...

General

I started developing my own software for my customers (special releases at first). Then, I moved onto software that integrated Sun workstations with existing networks, providing a bridge...