MAKING THE GRADE Archives

I Am Not a Security Engineer

By Michael Garramone – Attackers who really want in may keep trying, but the goal is to convince them to give up and try that other house down the street with the open window.

“Two Roads Diverged In a Yellow Wood…”

By David Ririe – I bring up those early choices since as we move down the DAA road, there will be presented several new choices. We are looking at a second generation of nodes that will start to incorporate or align more closely with RMD functionality.

Long Live the Past, with an Eye to the Future

By Charles Allred – These small details underscore the importance of open communication between all our engineering and operational teams. No individual holds all the keys or knows the secrets of every dark corner of our network.

Cox Business, The Best Kept Secret

Cateena Powers – Each year a large-scale briefing is available to all the businesses that supply goods and services to sustain DISA’s efforts in supporting the Dept. of Defense and other government agencies. This includes those of us providing critical data and voice communications services.

Securing the Access Network

By Alan Skinner – Cox took a two-pronged approach to this vulnerability: protocol-based filtering and network access control.

Keeping the Lights On

By David Ririe – We have spent the last several years aggressively upgrading our network capacity with DOCSIS 3.1 and more recently deploying remote PHY nodes in our new distributed access architecture (DAA). Our CTO Kevin Hart summed it up very well in a recent interview with the NCTA*

The Best Laid Plans…

By David Ririe — We have discussed the hurdles and challenges faced while working through the early phases of our DAA/remote PHY launch here at Cox. As we begin 2020, we are taking the opportunity to look at our overall plan and make sure that the plan still matches reality.

“Are We There Yet?”

By David Ririe — Last month I had the opportunity to travel to Europe with several colleagues from Charter and CableLabs. We have done this for several years now in a joint effort to understand the common challenges and needs on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

Blurred Lines

By Kraig Neese – So you decided to push the launch button on remote PHY and like all things new and technical, you found a few things you might not have expected. From the 30,000 foot view, remote PHY does not look all that difficult.

Converging Data and Video on an R-PHY Platform: It Takes a Village

By Alan Skinner and Ernest Fabre — If a distributed access architecture (DAA) is on your technology roadmap, you’ve no doubt been contemplating the daunting task of converging data and video services.