Mactron
el camino Real
Premium
join:2001-12-16
CM94sv
| reply to cdru
Re: Thanks Verizon
"...and they've chosen their words carefully, making sure they don't rule out the possibility."
Once they are more established in their planed build out, Caps n-stuff will surely come. Their not going to spoil the Fiber hoopla party while their still becoming a player. 
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If only the Verizon CSRs worked this well. |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| said by Mactron  :"...and they've chosen their words carefully, making sure they don't rule out the possibility."Once they are more established in their planed build out, Caps n-stuff will surely come. Their not going to spoil the Fiber hoopla party while their still becoming a player. More established? Yeah we're talking 10 years minimum. By then I certianly hope capacity issues won't be a problem for any ISP. |
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nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
 ·Comcast
| reply to Mactron
said by Mactron :Once they are more established in their planed build out, Caps n-stuff will surely come. Their not going to spoil the Fiber hoopla party while their still becoming a player. translation: when they stop getting their broadband and voice lunch eaten by cable and when they have video up on all their fiber systems, they will be just like the other guys, caps and all. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
 ·AT&T Southeast
| reply to BF69
Unfortunately, I believe capacity issues will always be a problem for ISPs. Not because infrastructure investments aren't being made, but because demanding applications are so much easier and cheaper to produce and deploy than the infrastructure necessary to support them. |
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tschmidt
Premium,MVM
join:2000-11-12
Milford, NH
 ·Hollis Hosting
·Verizon Online DSL
·Fairpoint Communic..
| All networks have choke points. What differs is where they occur and how much it costs to increase capability. Raw bandwidth is cheap it is the cable that is expensive. The most expensive "cable" is customer first-mile access network.
Choke point for FTTP and DSL is at CO or DSLAM. It is relatively cheap to increase transmission performance.
Choke point for Cable DOCSIS is at the node, making it relatively expensive to increase capability.
That is why you see Cablecos going after "bandwidth hogs" and not Telcos. Verizon is using that as a marketing tool, they would be stupid not to. Verizon also wants to use FIOS to roll out IPTV. Cable will be hard pressed to compete due to limited network capacity.
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UncleDirtNap
join:2006-08-26
Pittsburgh, PA | reply to BF69
Capacity issues will always be a problem for Internet over cable. So long as multiple people are sharing the same bandwidth there's always going to be a person or two who takes more than the amount theoretically allotted to them. |
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