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 ·RoadRunner Cable
| VDSL2 will come first before pair bonding The hardware/firmware for VDSL2 is already in place with the latest updates pushed to the RGs. The VRADs have been VDSL2-ready for some time.
AT&T is currently in trials of the new U-11 profile which allows a total of 32 megabits down and 5 megabits upload, and will turn on the VDSL2 protocols. It is not known at this time exactly what offerings will take advantage of the U-11 profile, but it is widely expected that a new 3HD/1SD TV capability will be offered. That's three HD streams and one SD stream simultaneously.
Currently the maximum is a U-10 profile, 25/2 total bandwidth, 2HD/2SD on TV, and 18/1.5 on Internet. AT&T has the ability to dynamically reduce the Internet allowed bitrate in order to service the video streams.
Obviously, AT&T could also increase their Internet offering speeds, but the details of this are not known at this time.
Pair bonding, as I have been saying repeatedly over the last 18 months on this board, is primarily a distance-from-the-VRAD play, not really for higher speeds, although it technically will allow faster speeds. As noted here, pair bonding will require new hardware deployment at the home. I don't think any VRAD changes are required but I am not sure on this. |
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 tschmidtPremium,MVM
join:2000-11-12
Milford, NH
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 ·Fairpoint Commun..
 ·Hollis Hosting
| said by MyDogHsFleas: That's three HD streams and one SD stream simultaneously. That seems like an awful lot to squeeze into 32 Mbps. I wonder what heavy motion video quality will be like? Broadcast HD is about 15 Mbps.
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| AT&T is going to milk their copper as long as possible.
If they did have fiber to the home it would probably be the same speeds as U-VERSE, at least that is what one of their executives had to say at their recent conference.
I do not trust AT&T at all. www.att.com/Common/multimedia/rbc103.t.mp3 |
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WhatNowPremium
join:2009-05-06
Charlotte, NC | And Verizon is selling off all the areas that would really cost them money for fiber. So those customers may be decades away from fiber.
I think AT&T is close to introducing a solution to the Bell South area fiber to the curb so they should pick up a lot of Uverse customers they could not serve at this point. AT&T needs to get on the ball in their rural areas. |
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 ·Verizon Wireless..
| I agree! AT&T has a lot of work to do in rural areas. To tell you the truth I dont think they will ever bring any kind of internet better than dialup out in the sticks. As far as I am concerned AT&T would be better off selling off its rural lines, we would have a better chance on getting DSL with a coop or small carrier. |
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tschmidtPremium,MVM
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Milford, NH
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1 edit | said by CaptainRR:To tell you the truth I dont think they will ever bring any kind of internet better than dialup out in the sticks. I think their FTTC will wind up being even more expensive then fiber in rural areas. Fiber runs can be up to 60kft and PON does not require active electronics in the field. VDSL on the other hand is limited to a few thousand feet of copper. In many places that means on VRAD per customer.
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·Verizon Wireless..
| That is totally understandable in rural areas. Where I am at I am 49,900 feet from the CO and 22,000 feet from the RT and it is not live anyhow. As far as I know there isnt a single RT capable of DSL in 3 townships around me. I was just saying that it will be a long time before any DSL is deployed out in rural areas no matter what kind of new technologies come out, people are too spread out. |
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·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to tschmidt
said by tschmidt:said by MyDogHsFleas: That's three HD streams and one SD stream simultaneously. That seems like an awful lot to squeeze into 32 Mbps. I wonder what heavy motion video quality will be like? Broadcast HD is about 15 Mbps. It's not great. AT&T has decided to compress HD down to something between 5 and 7 megabits per stream, and have custom codecs to try to make it look OK. This is why I do not subscribe to U-verse TV.
However I can't fault their business model. Most consumers don't know that they are getting overcompressed HD. Hell, most consumers can't tell HD from stretched SD. |
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