said by Thordrune:There's another difference as well, something that intrigues me: the 3010 has two RF tuners, whereas the 3008 uses a single tuner. I wonder what benefits/differences using two tuners presents in real-world conditions.
Actually, from what I can tell, it looks like the DPC3010 uses the older "first generation" DOCSIS 3.0 Broadcom BCM3380 chipset with its "Integrated 64-MHz wideband receiver with two independent 32-MHz blocks" (»
www.broadcom.com/product ··· /BCM3380 and »
datasheet.elcodis.com/pd ··· fsbg.pdf) while the DPC3008 uses the "second generation" BCM3382 chipset with its "second generation integrated wideband tuner, with an extended bandwidth of 96MHz" (»
www.broadcom.com/product ··· /BCM3382).
From the press release for the BCM3382 (»
www.broadcom.com/press/r ··· =s434809 ):
"... the new single-chip Broadcom BCM3382 solution improves RF performance with its second generation of integrated tuners ..."So it looks like the DPC3008 modem is the later model of the two in that it uses the newer Broadcom BM3382 chipset.
Also, the data sheet for the DPC3010 says "Copyright 2009-2010" and dated "November 2010," while the one for the DPC3008 is "Copyright 2010, 2012" and dated "August 2012."
. I was seeing the dual tuner/32 MHz part on the 3010 and wondering why it was narrower overall than the 3008.