A Small Study of DSCP Usage at US Regional ISPs The IP Differentiated Services Codepoint (DSCP) field (RFC 2474) is a mechanism that enables traffic to be treated differently by the network. This mechanism has seen little adoption on the public Internet due to...
Tarana G1 in Action: Introduction Tarana’s G1 technology brings ISPs a powerful tool for delivering high-speed broadband connectivity to subscribers who didn’t have this option before. Like all vendors, Tarana publishes datasheets that include maximum bitrates. At...
Reduce Network Congestion and Support Calls In November last year, Netflix ran into a bit of a PR disaster when its live stream of the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul boxing event dissolved into a buffering and glitch-filled debacle that drew more than 100,000 reports of network...
Fixed Wireless & Fiber Year in Review With 2025 growing closer on the horizon, it’s time to take our annual look back at what happened in the world of fixed wireless and fiber in 2024. Hot topics in the ISP industry this year included the continuing saga of the BEAD...
ONT Rx Power vs. Fiber Length Over Time This post is the last in our short series exploring light levels (signal strength) in PON fiber networks. In the first post, we looked at Rx power vs. fiber length. The second post explored attenuation (Tx power minus Rx power)...
Introduction Tarana’s G1 technology brings regional ISPs a powerful tool for delivering high-speed broadband connectivity to subscribers that did not have this option before. However, deployment choices—such as the number of sectors per tower and frequency reuse...
How to Use Network Metrics to Deliver Business Value At WISPAPALOOZA 2024 in Las Vegas this October, Preseem co-founder and CTO Scot Loach delivered a presentation called Analyzing Network Data. This video is a re-recording of that session and focuses on four...
Fiber Attenuation and Length for Adtran and Calix A few weeks ago, I posted an analysis of signal strength vs distance in fiber (PON) networks based on a random sampling of ONT stats in Preseem. This is what that looks like for Adtran and Calix respectively. After...
Connected Clients vs. RF Utilization on Tarana At Preseem, we collect a lot of data from ISP access networks to help operators move from reactive to proactive operations and make their teams more efficient. Tarana is a recent entrant to the world of Fixed Wireless,...
Exploring FWA Deployments by Population Density As a (now mostly former) wireless ISP operator, I’ve noted that rural, sparsely populated service areas often need subsidies to combat a difficult ROI. Government subsidies are both complicated and controversial. Using...
New! Enhanced Global Search & Faster Performance We’re excited to introduce Preseem’s all-new Global Search, designed to make finding what you need faster, smarter, and easier than ever. Whether you’re managing a fixed wireless or fiber network, our new search...
Network Metrics: The Challenge Due to budget or staff size restrictions, regional fixed wireless, fiber, and hybrid ISPs are often stuck taking a reactive approach to network and subscriber management. This means dealing with multiple vendor systems and piecing...
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