UofMiamiGrad
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Great Neck, NY | reply to moonpuppy
Re: Bandwitdth issues?
CV is already testing this in NJ. I am sure other MSOs are testing it as well. So much for all the MSOs saying they have no bandwidth issues, when in fact they do. |
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fiberguy
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| said by UofMiamiGrad  :CV is already testing this in NJ. I am sure other MSOs are testing it as well. So much for all the MSOs saying they have no bandwidth issues, when in fact they do. Yea.. this is nothing new. I don't know where it comes from that cable is looking at this from Phone. Unless phone was looking at doing this back in 1997 (which they could have been) cable tv has been looking at and eyeing IPTV for years. This is nothing new.
In many of our company wide meetings, Comcast officials had been talking about IPTV in the past. "The Industry" may be talking about it *now*, but I know of MSOs that have been talking about it for a while. |
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RadioDoc
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| Ameritech did advanced fiber-fed HFC cable TV fifteen years ago, well before any entrenched incumbent even had their first meeting about it...so I guess that means every other cable MSO in the region has been playing catch-up since.
What's your point?
Talking about it and deploying it are totally different things. Seems that all talk, no action shoe is now on the cable foot.
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imrf
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Utica, MI
 ·WOW Internet and C..
| said by RadioDoc :Ameritech did advanced fiber-fed HFC cable TV fifteen years ago, well before any entrenched incumbent even had their first meeting about it.. Where was that network built? The only HFC system that I know Ameritech built is the one that WOW! currently owns, and it isn't even close to being 15 years old. It's about 8 at most, and even back then it was only analog. The first thing WOW had to do was order and install all the digital equipment to make it competitive. |
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fiberguy
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Really? I guess Sacramento wasn't building theirs in 1992/1993 then.. MAN that must have been some good drugs we were all on... 
You've, once again, failed to prove anything other than come here to start a flame war with me as you have for the last 6 months. Bravo!
But, let me educate you on some facts:
Again, Sacramento was building it's hybrid fiber coax system in 1992, 1993.. are they not an incumbant?
Since there are already cable systems using IPTV techology with OnDemand, I guess you are correct.. some people are all talk.. that would be the phone companies. The IP address on my box of 10.130.24.152 isn't an IP? IPTV is IPTV...
Time Warner cable is already working on holding channels out on the edge of the nodes.. there are other MSOs testing standard IPTV services in the labs..
So far, if this is a competition for you, cable TV is actually moving forward MUCH fsater than Telco. Who is the big talked of IPTV and nothing coming of it? That would be AT&T/SBC... seen anything in the last 8 years from them?
I think that you will see once you remove the need to simply flame me in the forums that cable has had many more advances and deployed much more in it's world than telephone has.
If you want to have a conversation, at least be honest about it.
And for the record, a large portion of cable operators turned off their microwave hub trasmitters in lue of the fiber connections back in the early 90s, so that puts it all about 15 years ago... |
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