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Proactive Network Maintenance

  • Brady Volpe: Nimble This – Brady Volpe, MSEE, is one of the world’s leading engineering specialists for Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM). His websites pose valuable resources in conceptualizing the way modern communications technology works. Very recommendable!
  • PNM Best Practices: HFC Networks (DOCSIS 3.0) – As cable networks and the services delivered upon them evolve, society’s dependency upon these services increases. Network operations are getting ever more complex, with a multitude of different services such as tele-medicine, remote education, home monitoring, business applications and many more carried over the networks. The need and demand for maintaining a high level of reliability therefore also increases. To achieve such high reliability, operators should correct problems before they have any impact on service and the customer.
  • PNM Best Practices: HFC Networks (DOCSIS 3.1) – As proactive maintenance approaches took flight in DOCSIS 3.0 network operations; they quickly demonstrated their value. Henceforth, the DOCSIS 3.1 standard was designed to facilitate the extraction of even more live parameters from the network to incorporate into proactive network maintenance systems, further improving upon their effectiveness.