 DogfatherPremium
join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | reply to djrobx
Re: Very Interesting ... It doesn't matter how many nodes a cable system has. Nodes themselves can handle a boatload of traffic.
The capacity crunch is solely how many channels a cable operator dedicates for traffic between that node and the headend. You can handle hundreds and hundreds of customers on a node, if you dedicate the channels to do it.
Backbone capacity is easily scaleable and because the pool of customers is so much larger, the backbone capacity isn't suceptible to overselling issues like nodal capacity is. It only takes a few seeding customers to saturate the upstream channels of a node. |
