Alaskan Bandwidth Boosted by Cable to Oregon > False title

said by koolman2:

This will increase the bandwidth to ACS by 8, not the entire state. GCI has plenty of bandwidth to go around, and they blow ACS out of the water with their 10 Mbps unlimited cable modem service vs. ACS's 3 Mbps DSL.

»www.acsalaska.com/Cultures/en-US···rnet.htm (click "Sign Up!")

»www.gci.com/forhome/promos/xtrem···asd7.htm

As stated before, GCI already has several fibre optic cables running down south.

said by McLovin:

And ACS is still utilizing CDSL technology in a lot of parts in the state. I highly doubt that they will see any increase. ACS is notorious, at least here in Fairbanks, for overselling their DSLAMs by almost 200%. An engineer I spoke with informed me that a few areas in Fairbanks only had about 32Mbps of total aggregate bandwidth to supply about 180 customers. Which would be fine if everyone had their 320Kbps tier connection. But more people are jumping on the high bandwidth wagon up here and are slowly finding that ACS isn't the way to go. ACS currently has one 2.4Gbps OC48 link through Sprint running to Seattle. Where as GCI has 3 fiber links, two OC48 links running undersea to Seattle, and their newer, partial OC192 link going to Tacoma, I believe. The OC192 link was installed to provide upgradeability, should they deem it necessary. One company that I expect is going to get some decent WiMAX rollout, is AT&T. There was a news article a while back that Karl wrote about Juneau, Alaska's political capital city, is now a WiMAX rolled town, with more smaller towns in their eyes...