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why60loss
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RST fiber and AT&T are beating them to 1Gbs in NC

RST fiber is getting very close to doing 1Gbs and AT&T has gotten the green light in many city's. Time warner cable hasn't even done the 100mbs upgrade they said they would do much less 1Gbs.

TWC and there 1Gbs is a pipe dream until we see them do it.

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TWC has started launching 300mpbs in the cities it said it would and that's the same area supposed to be getting 1 Gbps:
»Official MAXX - I've Got it - Thread

The areas still waiting on 100mbps to roll out will probably get the gear removed from the areas upgraded to MAXX 300mpbs shipped over and installed.

That's further along then RST "getting very close" and AT&T "getting the green light" since it's an actual service people can order and get.

Your constant thread crapping everywhere because of your bad experience with TWC is really getting old.

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Should be a faster deployment than laying fiber, as it will be just upgrading existing plant to DOCSIS 3.1:

From: »www.cedmagazine.com/news ··· fi-in-la
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The nation’s second-largest cable operator, which is the process of being acquired by Comcast, said its response included detailed information about the deployment of DOCSIS 3.1 to deliver the 1-Gig service.

CableLabs released the initial specifications for DOCSIS 3.1 in October of last year. At The Cable Show in April, the cable industry gave DOCSIS 3.1 the consumer-facing name of “Gigasphere.”

“Over the last four years, Time Warner Cable has invested more than $1.5 billion to enhance our infrastructure and services in Los Angeles. This significant investment coupled with new ‘Gigasphere’ technology positions us to be able to introduce gigabit-per-second speeds in 2016,” said Peter Stern, executive vice president and chief strategy, people and corporate development officer at TWC. “Leveraging our existing network allows us to deliver these speeds faster and with less disruption than any other provider."

Los Angeles is one of the markets that Time Warner Cable targeted for its TWC Maxx network upgrade, which includes a 300 Mbps tier that has launched in some areas of the city. Time Warner said it expected to complete the network upgrade, which includes the move to all-digital, across its Los Angeles footprint by the end of this year.

Time Warner Cable said it expected DOCSIS 3.1 to be ready for initial pilots next year.

“As the new standard is certified and equipment manufacturers deliver new hardware and modems, our Los Angeles system will be prepared to begin deployment of gigabit speeds to consumers,” Stern said. “We can quickly adopt the new DOCSIS 3.1 standards and deliver gigabit speeds for consumers across our entire Los Angeles footprint, not just select neighborhoods and communities."

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Why don't TWC start laying out more fiber to get 1gbps
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Fiber is sexy and all that but DOCSIS3.1 is easily capable of 10Gpbs. There is no need to spend all that money on fiber, not yet.
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DOCSIS 3.1 - Released October 2013, plans support capacities of at least 10 Gbit/s downstream and 1 Gbit/s upstream using 4096 QAM. The new specs will do away with 6 MHz and 8 MHz wide channel spacing and instead use smaller (20 kHz to 50 kHz wide) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) subcarriers; these can be bonded inside a block spectrum that could end up being about 200 MHz wide.[7]

»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS
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Faster rollout, but more expensive, not as fast, will require more expensive near future upgrades to handle growing demand, and will need to be replaced again in 5-8 years.

Install fiber once, be done for 50-100 years.

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said by Bengie25:

Faster rollout, but more expensive, not as fast, will require more expensive near future upgrades to handle growing demand, and will need to be replaced again in 5-8 years.

Install fiber once, be done for 50-100 years.

Hardly... Fiber gear doesn't stand still either and is upgraded as frequently. Capacity needs increase and new standards come out. FIOS has already done a round of upgrades on it's FIOS from BPON to GPON with another on the horizon. Google has done some as well.

Besides the bandwidth increases the upgrades are done for increased equipment density so more customers can serviced on gear occupying the same space.

Fiber companies can't buy the equipment they'll need in 5-8 years any more then other telecoms can. They buy what is available today.

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said by Bengie25:

Faster rollout, but more expensive, not as fast, will require more expensive near future upgrades to handle growing demand, and will need to be replaced again in 5-8 years.

Install fiber once, be done for 50-100 years.

Tell that to AT&T's FTTH users who are stuck on speeds less than their VDSL counteraparts. Many of them are waiting for BPON gear to be replaced with GPON.

I said this a decade ago when DSL advertising had people so worried about cable's "shared" media - there is a TON of potential capacity for data speed in cable's coax. The vast majority of it is still dedicated to broadcast video. More spectrum is moving towards high speed data as demand dictates. There's more cable can do in the future, too. DOCSIS 3.1 is by no means the end of the line.

I'd love for AT&T to step up and compete, but clearly there's something not working out in the economics of FTTH, or AT&T and Verizon would have more of the country wired up by now.