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As many of you may have seen from last week's press release, SMC is the latest company to license our Powered by ClearAccess™ CPE software. SMC joins the ranks of other esteemed companies such as Cisco, NETGEAR, Actiontec, D-Link, and Technicolor in providing service providers with TR-069 management and value-added services not found elsewhere.
PBCA consists of a suite of software modules that equipment vendors can integrate into devices such as gateways (cable, DSL, Ethernet), set-top boxes (STBs), network attached storage (NAS), femtocells, homeplug adapters, or IP cameras to meet the requirements of innovative service providers across the globe.
The PBCA suite includes a TR-069 client along with a data model builder tool which supports data models such as TR-098, TR-135, TR-104, TR-181i2, enabling equipment vendors to quickly enable device manageability. If the device is connected to the ClearVision Management and Applications Platform, the partner has the ability to integrate any one of a number of additional value-added PBC A software modules enabling capabilities such as a subscriber portal, whole home parental controls, WiFi LAN device signal strength indicators, per device bandwidth monitoring, and more.
With many more PBCA prospects in active discussions with ClearAccess, the growing PBCA ecosystem is sure to offer service providers more choices along with more capabilities.
PBCA consists of a suite of software modules that equipment vendors can integrate into devices such as gateways (cable, DSL, Ethernet), set-top boxes (STBs), network attached storage (NAS), femtocells, homeplug adapters, or IP cameras to meet the requirements of innovative service providers across the globe.
The PBCA suite includes a TR-069 client along with a data model builder tool which supports data models such as TR-098, TR-135, TR-104, TR-181i2, enabling equipment vendors to quickly enable device manageability. If the device is connected to the ClearVision Management and Applications Platform, the partner has the ability to integrate any one of a number of additional value-added PBC A software modules enabling capabilities such as a subscriber portal, whole home parental controls, WiFi LAN device signal strength indicators, per device bandwidth monitoring, and more.
With many more PBCA prospects in active discussions with ClearAccess, the growing PBCA ecosystem is sure to offer service providers more choices along with more capabilities.
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We knew this was coming, and now the news about the depletion of IPv4 addresses is starting to escalate. With about a year’s supply on hand, things aren’t critical but I expect the media to treat this like Y2K all over again. The difference here is that we know the scope of the problem and how to fix it.
Once the address pool of IPv4 addresses is exhausted, there’s nowhere to get more. Except, of course, by using a new addressing scheme called IPv6, which provides us an exponentially larger pool by making the addresses longer (kind of analogous to what area codes did for the phone system). The problem with IPv6 is that most legacy devices in your home network don’t support it, and network operators must invest heavy dollars to migrate their infrastructure.
ClearAccess has been actively working on making our software IPv6 ready, which in general terms means converting the Powered by ClearAccess features to be IPv6 capable, and making some minor updates to ClearVision so it can handle the longer address space. It requires a lot of testing to ensure that both IPv4 and IPv6 modes can work concurrently.
We expect our customers to start testing IPv6 in labs by the middle of this year, assuming their network elements are ready by then. Service providers have been looking at IPv6 for years as a necessary migration, and it looks like 2011 is the year that it finally becomes a reality.
Once the address pool of IPv4 addresses is exhausted, there’s nowhere to get more. Except, of course, by using a new addressing scheme called IPv6, which provides us an exponentially larger pool by making the addresses longer (kind of analogous to what area codes did for the phone system). The problem with IPv6 is that most legacy devices in your home network don’t support it, and network operators must invest heavy dollars to migrate their infrastructure.
ClearAccess has been actively working on making our software IPv6 ready, which in general terms means converting the Powered by ClearAccess features to be IPv6 capable, and making some minor updates to ClearVision so it can handle the longer address space. It requires a lot of testing to ensure that both IPv4 and IPv6 modes can work concurrently.
We expect our customers to start testing IPv6 in labs by the middle of this year, assuming their network elements are ready by then. Service providers have been looking at IPv6 for years as a necessary migration, and it looks like 2011 is the year that it finally becomes a reality.
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