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Re: Most users could care less about infrastructure type I agree cable companies are horrible at maintaining their plant, and that is generally because of the attitude/pride the employees have of the network.
I guess it is the design of the cable network too. We can pull a tap and there is a secondary bypass, hard to explain, more like a main that goes around that tap. We can pull a tap, like a module, and plug in a new one. If the thing is completely corroded or damaged then it would need to be pulled off but like I said usually the bypass will keep the rest up. Also, if it is that bad, everything downstream of that tap already had problems to begin with.
Generally I have never seen more than 200 on a node. As far as how many are beyond a tap, maybe 30 max.
It is all about design. Unfortunately what the big guys end up with is a bunch of old crap mixed in with new crap and a lot of un-caring employees doing what they have to just to make it "work". Well this is not the norm of a small network which is what I am dealing with.
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| You'd be surprised. I've seen (first hand) nodes as small as 100 and as large as 1200. As someone mentioned, the designs and the actual builds run the gamut. Good operators are splitting nodes (physically and logically) like crazy right now getting everything tightened up and ready for FiOS and U-Verse. When they get to 200 homes/node, DOCSIS 3.0, Switched Digital Video and they get analog down to 70 channels, life will be very good indeed. Competition is a wonderful thing. | |
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