iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
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Re: I remember when Comcast did the same thing..... 50/10 is NOT available to me under $100. I don't have CATV. I don't want to spend $120 (which si what I'd be spending) on internet service that still has that pesky 250GB cap. If I'm paying that much for internet I sure as heck am gonna use it.
AT&T U-Verse has fiber, just not much of it, and without any speed advantage over their anemic VDSL product.
Fiber is the future; cable will eventually have to replace their plant with fiber. However if you have an HFC plant then by all means use it. Just realize that a fiber competitor can win against you on upload speeds, until you get upstream channel bonding in the field. At which point 10GEPON will be out and cable loses, plain and simple. At that point even a 1GHz plant full of DOCSIS channels won't be able to match the capacity of one PON node. |
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| Well put. Cable is still trying to milk 40 year old technology designed for television (not unlike DSL on copper pairs designed for POTS) and will end up in the same black hole unless they ditch this dead-end and go with an all fiber plant like FiOS. However, television is still their primary income stream and accounts for the bulk of cable profit so you'll never see them actually do it. By that time forward-thinking companies like Verizon will own the market.
Sucks to be Rick. |
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 jsz0Premium
join:2008-01-23
Jewett City, CT | They will eventually but for the short term DOCSIS 3 can match FIOS downstream speeds with room to grow. If Verizon had an easy, relatively cheap, option for doing FIOS type speeds over copper DSL you can bet they'd be doing it. That's what cable has with DOCSIS 3. It may not scale as far but the question is does it have to? What type of demand is there for 100Mbit+ residential Internet even in the next 5 years? I don't think much at all. 30-50Mbit/sec is going to be sufficient for multiple HD IP video streams and that's the real driving demand for bandwidth these days. As usual the best technology at any given time doesn't automatically win. The winner is the technology that is most practical and you can get into people's hands the quickest. In the short term I think that's going to be DOCSIS 3. |
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