rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO
| reply to rodrod5
Re: Surprise! They sell cable gear...
said by the article :
"When we consider the needs of geographically distributed applications such as cellular telephony and WiMAX, the cable industry's fiber network has major advantages," said Michael Tattersall, CEO of Stratsoft. "They have deployed their fiber very deeply across residential geographies with fiber access points serving an average of 500 homes throughout the country. Telco fiber, in contrast, is highly concentrated around commercial corridors and highways and is generally much less dense in residential areas."
This gear would tap cableco fiber, not coax. Since fiber has almost limitless bandwidth, a cable ISP's bandwidth issues should be related to how deep they've run fiber and then how well they manage the coax-to-the-home segment. Adding phone/WiMax back haul to their fiber network should not steal bandwidth from the coax segment. |
