DOCSIS Softwarization in a DAA and Virtualized Network

As technology continues to evolve, DOCSIS Softwarization in a DAA and virtualized network is a necessity. What does this mean exactly? Join Brady Volpe with special guest Tadeusz Ciesielski, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at Falcon V Systems as they discuss the evolving technology hurdles cable operators face as DOCSIS hardware becomes increasingly more DOCSIS software. Management of critical DOCSIS 3.1 and DOCSIS 4.0 infrastructure requires software orchestration. Further, virtualization and virtual CMTSs (vCMTS) can benefit from rapid software deployment cycles. Aligning to these changes requires operational changes within cable operator organizations. How and when will these changes occur? We shall see.

0:00 Intro

2:13 How Cable Industry is Evolving around Software

8:20 Defining the Software

9:00 vCCAP Slide

11:15 Change from monolithic applications to micro-services

13:00 Small companies contributing

14:30 Cable operator challenges with managing software

16:30 Skill gap & Conway’s Law

19:00 Challenge with waterfall in organizations

21:00 Will silos ever go away?

25:00 Benefits of Agile software development vs Waterfall

29:00 Source control / version control of all software

32:50 How does a cable operator get started? *Key tips*

36:50 Test Scenarios 37:30 Test Pipeline Environment

39:50 Canary test – rolling out new software in prod in one node at a time

42:46 Recommendations for network communications

47:30 Is SNMP slowly fading or not?

49:28 SCTE Expo discussion

53:00 Wrap-up

Thank you for your time today. This was a great episode.  Our next Episode 85 in September.

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