Yesterday is history and tomorrow is a mystery, but one thing is certain: to deliver the immersive experiences and advanced functionalities that tomorrow’s subscribers demand, we need an ever better, faster, stronger network. Does that mean the future is fiber dominant? In this blog post, we explore why DOCSIS 4.0...

Latency and speed used to be the key performance indicators, but when dealing with many different kinds of activity simultaneously, QED provides a much better quality indicator. A Teams conference call requires a different approach than streaming The Mandalorian or taking names in Fortnite.  QED stands for Quality of Experience...

Why is my Wi-Fi connection so bad? The answer is not always obvious. Diagnosing your internet connection is pretty tough, let alone troubleshooting. Sometimes it’s due to the configuration of the devices. Yet the network, too, could make a bad decision. Even wireless mesh networks are not infallible. Here’s how...

Proximus In-home Solutions Team: Getting early and direct feedback of test runs using live dashboards has been on our planning here at Proximus. Excentis proposed real-time graphs using the Grafana observability platform in tandem with the Prometheus database. With support of the Excentis engineering team, we constructed an initial setup...

When I hear people talking about DOCSIS 3.1 and its great performance, the critic in me wonders: is the technology as good as promised, or is it all just savvy marketing? In this blog post, we’ll be taking a look at the promises and the challenges of DOCSIS 3.1. Download speeds of...

Do the newest smartphones and routers support the new standard? You’ll likely come across three different terms when reading about Wi-Fi 6. It has also been called High-Efficiency Wireless (HEW), and these two names are more marketable alternatives to 802.11ax, which refers to the specification standard. Wi-Fi 6 is the...