Dogfather
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Laguna Hills, CA
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| reply to dadkins
Re: Upload congestion?
Comcast's upload crunch (and certainly not all markets are seeing it) is only between the node and headend and is caused by channel saturation. As they continue to deploy SDV, work on ditching analog and other ideas that save significant bandwidth, they can dedicate more channels to HSI and with DOCSIS 3 bond those channels for speeds to the end user far exceeding what customers are willing to buy (as evidenced by Verizon selling mainly low tier FiOS).
The bandwidth crush is a myth. Some use it to try and sell hardware while others use it as justification for draconian network management with the real goal being to squash emerging video competitors. |
