Thanks to years of experience, Excentis can offer a vast amount of knowledge and insight in a lot of new and existing technologies related to telecommunications and ICT. Competences are situated in, but not limited to, the following general areas: wired and wireless access networks, backbone networks, service architectures, quadruple play services, broadcasting and backoffice systems (OSS, customer and services provisioning systems).
Just to name a few relevant topics:
- Euro-DOCSIS and DOCSIS 1.0/1.1/2.0/3.0: Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) and Modular CMTS (M-CMTS), Cable Modem (CM), provisioning, configuration files, Edge-QAM... Excentis itself wrote the European annex to the DOCSIS specifications.
- Euro-PacketCable and PacketCable 1.0/1.5/2.0: Embedded Multimedia Terminal Adapter (E-MTA), Call Management Server (CMS, but more often called Softswitch), V5.2 gateway or IP Access Terminal (IPAT), media gateway, signaling gateway, lawful intercept (or "legal tapping"), (dynamic) quality-of-service (QoS or dQoS), security, digital certificates...
- Voice over IP (VoIP) in general: not only (Euro-)PacketCable, but also Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), H.323, IP phones and IP PABXes...
- Network technologies: Internet Protocol (IP, IPv6, IPsec), Ethernet, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)...
- Hybrid Fiber-Coax (HFC) network component testing: taps, amplifiers...
- Network and performance monitoring: Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP, SNMPv3), traffic generation and analysis, performance and stress testing...
- Backbone Quality-of-Service: MPLS, DiffServ, IntServ...
- Digital Subscriber Line (DSL): ADSL, ADSL2+, VDSL, SDSL, DSLAM...
- (Interactive) digital television: Digital Video Broadcast (DVB, DVB-C, DVB-S, DVB-T), MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Video on Demand (VoD), set-top boxes and middleware such as MHP.
- Wireless technologies: WiMAX, Wi-Fi...
- In-home networking, HomePlug
- IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and fixed-mobile convergence (FMC)
- Security in general: VPN tunnelling, encryption, public key infrastructures, digital certificates...
In all of the above areas, and more, we offer an extensive set of services.
Excentis is vendor-neutral, but has experience with equipment from major manufacturers.
Excentis also has a toolbox full of advanced measurement and test equipment, such as (Euro-)DOCSIS sniffers or "RF sniffers", Vector Signal Analysers, Network Analysers, a voice quality tester (using the PESQ algorithm), a temperature chamber...
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