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PacketCable Implementation

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PACKETCABLE IMPLEMENTATION

Security in PacketCable networks

Jeff Riddel — Mon, 07 May 2007 13:56:18 -0400

One of the major functional areas addressed in PacketCable is security. Basically every component and every protocol in the PacketCable architecture has security requirements defined. However in many of today's deployments very few of these security requirements are actually implemented. Why not, you may ask?

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The future of PacketCable: PacketCable Release 2 and IMS

Jeff Riddel — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:09:39 -0400

In the earlier phases of PacketCable, PacketCable 1.x, the aim was defining a complete architecture for providing primary line telephony in a cable environment. This architecture includes security requirements, QoS requirements, call signaling requirements, resource accounting requirements, and network management requirements. Partly due to time to market needs well established protocols, such as MGCP, and concepts, such as the softswitch, were used as the basis to provide the required functionality. The initial PacketCable charter was to provide a telephony service that offers voice quality as good as or better than that of the legacy PSTN and with the same suite of call features.

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Understanding PacketCable DQoS

Jeff Riddel — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:30:43 -0400

Arguably the single most important PacketCable concept is DQoS or Dynamic Quality of Service. DQoS enables premium treatment for the MSO's voice traffic over other types of traffic in the often congested cable plant. To help understand how this is achieved it is worth looking at how data is sent to and from a cable modem.

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An Introduction to VoIP Services in Cable Networks

Jeff Riddel — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:59:42 -0400

Hello everyone,

Are you one of the millions of people around the world who get their telephony service from their cable company? Or do you use some other type of VoIP service over your broadband connection? If you have any questions or comments on the technolgies used to make these services work I may be able to help.

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