tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| useless... Why even upgrade if the speeds are going to be in the 20-50 megabit range? This could be done NOW without docsis 3.0
A fully uncapped docsis 2.0 speed would do this already without ANY upgrades. Only areas with docsis 1.0/1.1 should be upgraded to docsis 3.0 | |
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A hot cup of integrals please
join:2007-06-12
Rego Park, NY | Re: useless... DOSCIS 2 shares the 50 megs among like 50 users, so comcast cant use it to offer those speeds to each and every sub. Now, hopefully, with channel bonding and the rest of it, DOSCIS 3.0 should be able to make those speeds possible. | |
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 | JerryTongue
join:2003-04-01
Auburn, WA
| Re: useless... They are always behind, trailing behind what someone else is already doing or has already done. Talk now is people dont even care about DOSIS 3.0 They either want fiber to the home or Verizon Fios. All Comcast ever offers is stupid stuff that cost them nothing to put up. All smoke and mirrors. While in the mean time everyone else is gearing up for the already demand like HD, and much faster Internet Download as well as Upload speeds. Comcast is like Washington State Highways
By time they add a new lane we could use 2 lanes. My guess by all the heat about traffic shaping, fear from share holders, and the pounding from the FCC and everyone else and the fact they dont want to put any real money into what they have, they will sell out in time. Never seen them in it for the long haul anyways. | |
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Steely
Dumped Comcast for FiOS
Premium
join:2000-10-15
Princeton Junction, NJ
| Re: useless... said by JerryTongue  :They are always behind, trailing behind what someone else is already doing or has already done. Exactly my assessment of Comcast since I started with them 3½ years ago after previously having Cablevision/Optimum Online/iO. They should be the industry pacesetters and trendsetters with all the money and resources at their disposal. Instead, they're usually a few steps behind the competition. In addition, they tend to be more expensive. | |
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| tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| said by a333 :DOSCIS 2 shares the 50 megs among like 50 users, so comcast cant use it to offer those speeds to each and every sub. Now, hopefully, with channel bonding and the rest of it, DOSCIS 3.0 should be able to make those speeds possible. Actually the node shares a few hundred megabits (100-400 depending upon how many subscribers per node (24-50), which could be *split* to accommodate the greater speeds. It's the capability of the modems which can do in 40/30 megabit range:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS
1.x 38-42mbit / 9-10mbits
2.X 38-42mbit / 27-31mbits
3.X 152-171mbit / 108-123mbits
Again, this move means it will cost money to make money to earn back that market share lost to FIOS symmetrical, either way. Keep in mind, the most under-served areas of the comcast network have VERY HIGH node ratios (higher than 50 per node) which scale back the bandwidth all the way down to 1.X mbit per subscriber at $30-65 price ranges which is totally unacceptable in today's market. Might be competition to a QWEST region but nowhere else. | |
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join:2004-03-18
UK
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| Re: useless... said by tmc8080 :said by a333 :DOSCIS 2 shares the 50 megs among like 50 users, so comcast cant use it to offer those speeds to each and every sub. Now, hopefully, with channel bonding and the rest of it, DOSCIS 3.0 should be able to make those speeds possible. Actually the node shares a few hundred megabits (100-400 depending upon how many subscribers per node (24-50), which could be *split* to accommodate the greater speeds. Actually Comcast themselves say their average node size is over 450 homes passed and they certainly don't have several downstreams. You can have a vague guess by the different downstream frequencies seen on plant of the same origin but it's certainly not going to be the 10 needed to get close to 400Mbit to a single node.
Even then as the downstreams are not bonded on this gear the maximum available to a single modem is 38Mbit. This is not a limitation of the modem alone but also of the CMTS. The downstreams are discrete and modems contend for bandwidth on each channel not on the entire bandwidth. In at least some areas Comcast use the uBR 7246VXR so can't offer more than 2 downstreams to a node anyway.
50 per node is not a very high node ratio at all. There will be virtually no nodes at all which carry under 50 subscribers. Those nodes that do carry 50 subscribers are probably combined with others as there is no need at all to have nodes that small. a 50hp node is not a node it's FTTK. | |
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| alchav
join:2002-05-17
Palm Desert, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| said by a333 :DOSCIS 2 shares the 50 megs among like 50 users, so comcast cant use it to offer those speeds to each and every sub. Now, hopefully, with channel bonding and the rest of it, DOSCIS 3.0 should be able to make those speeds possible. I agree with a333, Cable Companies and Telco's are laid out differently. Cable Companies work on a sharing Network, while Telco's Network starts at the Central Office. DOSCIS 3.0 or Fiber through a Cable Company will still have limitations. Like I said Verizon FiOS is the clear winner anyway you look at it. | |
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Take me down to the paradise city
Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
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| Re: useless... said by alchav :said by a333 :DOSCIS 2 shares the 50 megs among like 50 users, so comcast cant use it to offer those speeds to each and every sub. Now, hopefully, with channel bonding and the rest of it, DOSCIS 3.0 should be able to make those speeds possible. I agree with a333, Cable Companies and Telco's are laid out differently. Cable Companies work on a sharing Network, while Telco's Network starts at the Central Office. DOSCIS 3.0 or Fiber through a Cable Company will still have limitations. Like I said Verizon FiOS is the clear winner anyway you look at it. You do realize FiOS' BPON and/or GPON architecture is shared at the neighborhood node right, not at the Central Office. | |
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join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
clubs:
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| Re: useless... Technicallity , they are shared at the block muxer. Meaning they are shared at the 32 sub block , where its muxed onto the main fiber ring. But in all real world speak they have less people packed on a "node".
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join:2007-01-27
Tuckahoe, NY
| ODNs are shared -- a BPON distribution hub (in the metal box at the end of your street) splits 622/155 Mbps among 32 users. In other words, if all 32 Fios users on a hub took 20/20 service and maxed out the upstream they would only be able to get 4.84 Mbps each. | |
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@verizon.net | Re: useless... Thats incorrect. Fios uses two data lightwaves upstream and downstream and both are up to 622mbps on BPON. Plus its using TDM so its not actually shared like cable. | |
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join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
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| Re: useless... said by espaeth :said by Heyya :
Thats incorrect. Fios uses two data lightwaves upstream and downstream and both are up to 622mbps on BPON. Plus its using TDM so its not actually shared like cable. FiOS uses TDMA on the upstream as well to solve the "multiple speaker" problem in the same way as cable. Based on my understanding of FiOS, each neighborhood distribution would share 1 port on the head-end. The downstream light path is split to 32 homes with the head-end being the only speaker so there's no chance of transmit collision. Each of the 32 homes off the distribution node sees the same downstream data feed just like cable. On the upstream each home is fed into an optical combiner to go back to a common upstream node port. The reason you are limited to 155mbps upstream is because of the TDMA timing overhead to ensure that upstream data transmissions are handled in a controlled fashion and 2 ONTs don't transmit at the same time. The biggest difference is network scaling; Verizon needs one head-end port per 32 homes, whereas Comcast can go as wide as 1 head-end port per 1000 homes in some cases. But did you know that Verizon can also add amplitude modulation on top of the time division ?just by updating the "headend" what it does is functionally make up to 4 muxes able to send on the same light wave at different timing intervals after a handshake , pretty neat stuff I say.
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| majortom1029
join:2006-10-19
Lindenhurst, NY
| said by a333 :DOSCIS 2 shares the 50 megs among like 50 users, so comcast cant use it to offer those speeds to each and every sub. Now, hopefully, with channel bonding and the rest of it, DOSCIS 3.0 should be able to make those speeds possible. Then tell me how cablevision is offering 38/5 with docsis 2. | |
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Cabal
Premium
join:2007-01-21
Boston, MA
| Comcast is entirely DOCSIS 1.1 (the only requirement for Powerboost) with the exception of ex-Adelphia areas that were already 2.0. They will be performancing an in-place upgrade of 1.1 -> 3.0 in the the vast majority of their areas.
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MOTO6809
join:2007-11-05
Springfield, MA
| said by tmc8080 :Why even upgrade if the speeds are going to be in the 20-50 megabit range? This could be done NOW without docsis 3.0 A fully uncapped docsis 2.0 speed would do this already without ANY upgrades. Only areas with docsis 1.0/1.1 should be upgraded to docsis 3.0 They could offer those speeds, but not at the current forward combining they have setup today.. They will more than likely reduce the number of users per downstream QAM , which in some cases means doing node splits. As far as uploading they will need to be at 1:1 per uBr upstream port.
So why rewire everything based on DOCSIS2 when 3 is right around the corner. Not to mention they are not just looking at DOCSIS 3 for fast internet speeds. DOCSIS3 offers a whole bunch of goodies for them. | |
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