Since 2015, Excentis has been inviting the world’s leading network equipment vendors to its headquarters once a year to test their DOCSIS® 3.1 products and demonstrate interoperability with other equipment. More than offering vendors a unique chance to test in a high-tech, vendor-neutral environment, the interop event is a great...

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...

The adoption of new 5G standards in Belgium is a hot topic. Many supporters cite braking distances for self-driving cars as a good reason to kick 4G to the curb, as 5G ensures significantly lower latency than 4G, as well as guaranteed quality of service. But is latency really putting...

VOIP solutions and video chat apps are part of our business and personal lives – and online multiplayer games have become mainstream hobbies. To enable these applications, huge volumes of data are being exchanged online at ever-more-massive rates. A delay in the transmission of data – i.e. latency – can have...

Today’s digital era puts our networks and the related network technology under extremely high pressure. With the explosion of mobile devices, HD video, gaming and IoT and cloud applications, the demand for high speeds in enterprise as well as residential local area networks (LAN) is soaring. But higher speeds often...

he first step after installing a new network is often to determine its maximum throughput. At the DOCSIS 3.1 interop that we organized a couple of months ago, several participants stayed after to get the highest throughput on their modems. When new lab equipment is delivered to a customer, it’s...