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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.

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: