| nodes do not cost $200,000! they cost around $10,000 from what I have been told over in one of the tech forums on the internet. |
 DrDrewSo that others may surf.
join:2009-01-28
SoCal
kudos:8 | reply to Melokarma
Also realize that nodes only service a few hundred homes at most and SoCal has thousands of nodes to provide service to the millions of customers.
A $200,000 dollar item may be a CMTS, which your node and lots of other connect to. It's there where the splits really need to happen since it's the CMTS port bandwidth that gets overloaded. A node is split so it can connect to more CMTS ports. A node split alone doesn't do much, if the new node is connected to the same ports as the original. A new CMTS installation can take weeks and/or months, between budgeting, design, installation, and moving nodes onto it. A CMTS also isn't installed for a single node overload, it's done to relieve bandwidth congestion on many nodes at once or to get ready for higher speeds or services.
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Two is one, one is none. If it's important, back it up... Somethimes 99.999% availability isn't even good enough. |
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