| reply to itsthetelcostupid
Re: Cable vs. DSL I agree with you there.
The whole cable shared bandwidth thing is a rumor of the past. Most cable companies have upgraded their infrastructure so much that its no longer an issue. For instance my cable company a few years back ran TONS of fiber around town. Our town is about 30 square miles, and currently the cable company has about 300 linear miles of fiber running around the town. Their current active capacity is about 655mbps on their sonet ring. However only about 1/3 of their available fiber is active so they could easily achieve about 2gbps on their network.
The phone company however doesn't even have fiber between their CO's in town. They're 100% copper running old fashined T-3 lines. The cable companies are definitely positioned to become the telco's of the future and put all the Bell's out of business. |
