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Re: Extreme 305

At the end of an item posted by Cathy Avgiris (Executive VP, Communications and Data Services) to the Comcast Voices blog today announcing the launch of a new Xfinity Wireless Gateway (»blog.comcast.com/2012/09 ··· ifi.html), was also this announcement about the new "Extreme 305 speed tier":

In addition to offering the fastest in-home WiFi, we're also announcing the availability of our Extreme 305 speed tier, which reaffirms our commitment to providing customers with the nation's fastest Internet. Extreme 305 is a new ultra-fast speed tier that offers the most-advanced digital homes download speeds of up to 305 Mbps and upload speeds of up to 65 Mbps. It's currently being offered across most of our Northeast division, which includes major markets such as Boston, Hartford, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Wilmington, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Richmond, and New Jersey.

EDIT: Found the press release about it here: »www.businesswire.com/new ··· ome-WiFi
EDIT2: On the Comcast site now: »www.comcast.com/About/Pr ··· RID=1218
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The Comcast press release today doesn't say how this "Extreme 305" speed tier is to be delivered, so there still seems to be some confusion about that, given what it says in this article on the CED Magazine site today:

Comcast updates wireless gateway; 305 launches in Northeast
By Mike Robuck, CED Magazine - September 18, 2012
»www.cedmagazine.com/news ··· ortheast

From the article:
Comcast’s Extreme 305 tier uses an 802.11ac wireless router from Netgear, which is paired with a cable modem for an additional $20 per month.
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And in this article on the Light Reading Cable site today about Hitron submitting their new 24x8 gateway to CableLabs for certification testing, it still talks about Comcast’s 305/65 speed tier being delivered via DOCSIS 3.0:

1-Gig Cable Gateway Gets Ready for Its Close-Up
By Jeff Baumgartner, Light Reading Cable - September 25, 2012
»www.lightreading.com/doc ··· lr_cable

From that article:
But it's unlikely that many cable operators have the channels available or the desire to offer a broadband tier that would fully load a 24x8 modem right away. Hitron believes operators will go for consistency instead, adding channels to the bonding group to stabilize aggregate speeds going for existing tiers, rather than shooting for 1Gbit/s bursts.

Several U.S. MSOs offer D3 tiers that advertise downstream speeds in the range of 50Mbit/s to 100Mbit/s. The extreme case is Comcast Corp., which introduced a new tier that maxes out at 305Mbit/s downstream and 65Mbit/s upstream. (See Comcast Revs Up Pricey 305-Meg Tier: »www.lightreading.com/doc ··· lr_cable )
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OK, this article on Light Reading Cable site this morning should finally clear up any confusion on how this service will be provided. Note that this thread is referenced in the article.

Comcast Gives FTTH a Shot
By Jeff Baumgartner, Light Reading Cable - September 27, 2012
»www.lightreading.com/doc ··· lr_cable

EDIT: Also, an article on the FierceTelecom site today: »www.fiercetelecom.com/st ··· 12-09-28

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Wow being FTTH and metro ethernet I would seriously consider this service. Not only should it be way more reliable (and no daytime slowdowns wih DOCSIS) but the latency should be significantly better on metro Ethernet as well under 1ms to the headend.

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said by SHoTTa35 :

Figured each fiber strand can handle 1Gbps each way with ease so 1 strand should be more than good enough per customer.

»nextbigfuture.com/2012/0 ··· ond.html

1Gbps is nothing for fiber since a single fiber strand was used to smoke the 1Pbps barrier just recently. Era of obsolete copper cable has been over for a while now and it is about time that Comcast finally got on board with FTTH!

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I want a 1 Pbps conenction

now if we go by comcast's 1$ per megabit pricing...
that's about 1 billion dollars per month
that's about typical pricing for comcast.

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FYI - Rogers, the largest cable operator in Canada, is now offering their own (250/250) version of "Extreme 305":

Rogers Starts to Get It On With GPON
By Jeff Baumgartner, Light Reading Cable - November 26, 2012
»www.lightreading.com/doc ··· lr_cable