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 urbmanPhasers Locked On Target
join:1999-06-25
Niagara Falls, NY | What the experts predict?? With all the dsl turmoil, why is it that the experts are still predicting dsl will win out over cable? I used to be a big dsl supporter but since getting cable and reading the reviews I am beginning to wonder. Don't get me wrong I think that dsl is a better product when it works. Besides that will the deregulation of both cable and phone, I don't see how the local telcos could even offer cable over a dsl line with the quality at present. I have heard that in Mass, AT+T is offering local phone service over cable lines? If the cable companies can get that going will the phone companies be able to catch up?
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| You really have to look at the big picture of broadband. It's not you or me surfing the web and downloading MP3's that pay the bills, It's the small to medium sized business that buys the connection, hosting and other e-business oriented services that keep these companies operating. Up until recent offerings no cable company has been selling small business services. It's all been consumer based connections without an SLA. I don't know about you but if my company relied on it's internet connection to function I would need some sort of service agreement and guaranteed bandwidth. A company that was paying $1000-$2000 a month for a T1 can now get the same bandwidth for $300-$500 a month with the same SLA they got on the T1
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AT&T Phone over Cable I was under the impression that AT&T was rolling this out nationwide. See www.digitalphone.att.com | | |
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urbmanPhasers Locked On Target
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Niagara Falls, NY | Cool thanks for the link.
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 lml2000Whazzup
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Los Angeles, CA | reply to urbman
Re: What the experts predict?? urb:
I think you confusing "turmoil" for quality of service, when it really is referring to financial stability of many of these CLEC operations. Much of the problems now experienced by CLECs and their DSL ISPs are financial. These CLECs obtained too much money too quickly from bankers, and has a result spent it much too quickly focusing on market share rather than the bottom line. Well, now the money spicket has been turned off, and those operations that are not profitable will soon wither on the vine and either die or seek a big fish with cash flow. Cash is now king in the DSL business. Expect some consolidation and some permanent Ch. 7 liquidations. But DSL is here to stay, and in many respects, particularly to professionals and more serious residential users, DSL will continue to offer a superior platform, but might cost a bit more than cable for such superiority.
Cable, OTOH, will cater to residential users and will likely operate at the lowest common denominator until the subscriber base starts to complain with a loud roar. If you're fortunate to live in an area with superior cable plant and few subscribers, your service is bound to be superior to a traditional ADSL line. But don't expect the nirvana to last forever. For $25-30 per month, you cannot expect your MSO to deliver to you a 5-10 Mbps pipe forever. Most likely, going forward, the QoS of your cable connection will continue to dwindle, and periodically improve when the cable company decides to add a node. But I submit as the network grows larger, and more complex, on the margin each additional node will result in less and less improvement in QoS, and that with increased complexity brought on by the increased number of subscribers, problems on the network will increase exponentially.
So, which is better, DSL or cable? It depends. It depends upon where you live, your local plant situation; who your provider or MSO is, etc. Do you live close to your telco's CO? Who is your ISP and what is the unused capacity on their network? Are you willing to pay a bit more for superior service? Is your MSO a quality operation? If so, how new is their cable plant? How many subs do the permit on a single node? How often or how willing is the MSO to add a node when local traffic in the coax in your street gets congested during peak periods? Do they know what they're doing? IMHO, many MSOs know little about 2-way systems; they pretend to know, but have considerable less experience than the telcos. You be your own judge.
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