Ulmo
join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA
 ·Comcast
 ·SONIC.NET
| reply to Dogfather
Re: Big deal
said by Dogfather  :They'll have the capacity to significantly raise or abolish the limit...should they choose to. And these movie transfers demonstrate their HD VOD capabilities which wouldn't apply to HSI restrictions. Right. They could also limit/charge for/tarriff/designate local connections differently from Internet connections. They could designate various IP#s as "within Comcast" and weight them as near, medium, far, etc., and then those "outside Comcast" and rate them accordingly. If capping, they could cap with those in mind.
Someone responded to you by saying "DOCSIS 3.0 does not involve VOD." I don't quite see how that could possibly be true: VOD will most certainly be possible over DOCSIS 3.0, and could make it a lot better (much better than the current 6x fast forward and rewind crap), especially with HD. I would not be at all surprised if content was delivered via DOCSIS 3.0. |
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Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO
| I will try to explain this. The current Cable TV, Cable phone, and cable HSI all come on the same wire, BUT they are on independent systems. Your HSI running at full capacity does not interact with you Cable phone or Cable TV. The VOD runs inside the Cable TV system and has zero(0) interaction with HSI or Cable Phone.
Yes, you COULD setup a VOD system to run over HSI but that is not the way it is currently set up. Third party ip telephone does run over HSI, which is why you cannot download at full capacity and use the (third party ip) phone at the same time (shared bandwidth). |
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djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
 ·PHONE POWER
 ·AT&T U-Verse
·AT&T CallVantage
·Time Warner VOIP
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to Ulmo
The current VOD system creates a completely standard 256QAM channel on the fly (so standard, you can "freeload" them with a QAM tuner!). So, DOCSIS 3 would be of little or no benefit to that system, since bonding isn't necessary in that situation. The system can simply move onto another QAM channel when one is full. |
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