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Via the integration of Ultra-Wideband
(old news - 09:46AM Thursday Aug 26 2004)
tags: bandwidth · cable
By using Ultra-Wideband over coaxial, a company named Pulse~LINK recently demonstrated how they can offer cable providers more bandwidth (1 gigabit downstream, 580 megabits upstream per node). The group used "off the shelf" gear at the head-end, injected the UWB signal into a standard RF combiner, transmited it via fiber to a fiber field node where the RF content was demodulated for transmission through more than 1000 feet of coax cable and two "field amplifiers". Additional detail is available at Wi-Fi Networking News.

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odog
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Norcross, GA
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UWB is cool tech..

put it in a wire and it's even more badass

Smokey
Even drunk on a bet ya make it to Canada
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Va Beach
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SPEED!!

So, when can I expect deployment??
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n2jtx

join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY
·Optimum Online

Re: SPEED!!

said by Smokey See Profile:
So, when can I expect deployment??

Anytime after third quarter 2005 when the chipset is due. Only problem is the cable companies will still cap you at 128K upstream and 1.5MB downstream (because they can)
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dg2
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Lowell, AR
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As a result of massive complaining to all levels of Cable Company "x", we have picked up the following schedule, leaked out by a disgruntled "x" employee:

NoVA - tomorrow, but you can't use it until they replace the modem they fried in the upgrade
SoCal - day after tomorrow
Phoenix - next week
CT/RI - next week, but with massive packet loss
Oklahoma - also next week, but only for OK customers
W. Texas - depends on the election results
So. Louisiana - as soon as the muni tries to implement
Central Fla. - business next month, residential next year
Las Vegas - Las where? Do we own a system in Las Vegas?
Middle America (excluding S. La.) - we'd like to tell you, but that would jeapordize our competitive position. If you behave, good things will happen [whisper] sometime in October of 2046 [/whisper]

Until the upgrade is implemented, all "x" 1024/128 customers will be charged the same rate as the 56000/10000 customers. After all, fair is fair...


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Smokey
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Re: SPEED!!

Good to see you coming to terms with your issues.
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Haulngas4u

join:2004-03-30
Phoenix, AZ
This post is too funny and I agree with you lol.

glmclell

join:2000-10-17
Manistee, MI
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pulse~link site = slow

looks like Pulse~LINK needs to buy some of their own product ... trying to download their demo movie now, at a mere 40kb/sec

BliZZardX
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Toronto, ON
·Bell Sympatico
·Rogers Hi-Speed

Re: pulse~link site = slow

Nah you're probably just going through a congested router.

IGGY
No Guru Just Here To Help
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join:2001-03-30
Chatham, IL

There servers work fine for me.

dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
·Comcast

Re: pulse~link site = slow

Server seems fine on this end...

ronsega

join:2000-01-03
Chula Vista, CA
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Re: pulse~link site = slow

they have PLENTY of bandwidth


BliZZardX
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Toronto, ON

Re: pulse~link site = slow

Ya gotta learn how to crop.

ronsega

join:2000-01-03
Chula Vista, CA
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Re: pulse~link site = slow

Thought it was automatic in MS Paint

fixed it though.

Anon_Name

@24.241.x.x

More than enough bandwidth!
nasadude

join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD

have to wait first....

until the RIAA and MPAA can properly cripple sending and receiving devices with DRM. We don't want all this convenience and convergence to lead to indiscriminate distribution of copyrighted works over the internet, now do we?

AthlGrond
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join:2002-04-25
Aurora, CO
·Comcast

Re: have to wait first....

said by Wi-Fi Planet:
That can enable a customer to send DVD quality video from their living room, say from a camcorder, back into the network and to another subscriber. "That's true 52-inch display, DVD quality, home-to-home interactive video," Watkins says.
Right you are!
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b_zen
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Saint Louis, MO
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LOL, well finally

Pulse~Link is starting to get headlines... I mean, more than the one mentioned a few months ago... Keep going John!

You got one hell of a technology

P.S. to Justin of BBR, remember the request sponsorship trip to San Diego (flying with Lufthansa?), Pulse~LINK it was
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UWB over Wire is the future!
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Corvus
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join:2003-11-26

Just in time!

With few VDSL being available in next months offering up to 52Mbps, this technology could keep cable companies alive in 5 years.
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SquareSlinky
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Tampa, FL

Re: Just in time!

The technology is obviously available, but the cable companies won't react to it until somebody else does first. I have no pity on the loosing companies lack of a quick response.
JonR800
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Farmington, MI

Re: Just in time!

... but but... Brian Roberts said!!

/me stomps off

tiger72
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Saint Louis, MO
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said by Corvus See Profile:
With few VDSL being available in next months offering up to 52Mbps, this technology could keep cable companies alive in 5 years.

you don't think that the fact that DSL never seems to actually fulfil their lofty promises, or that their technology is only available to a select few who are lucky enough to actually live within earshot the CO will keep cable companies alive in 5 years?

Corvus
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Re: Just in time!

said by tiger72 See Profile:
said by Corvus See Profile:
With few VDSL being available in next months offering up to 52Mbps, this technology could keep cable companies alive in 5 years.

you don't think that the fact that DSL never seems to actually fulfil their lofty promises, or that their technology is only available to a select few who are lucky enough to actually live within earshot the CO will keep cable companies alive in 5 years?

I must add something important: I live in Canada and broadband is not like gold here, almost everyone can have it.
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tiger72
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Re: Just in time!

well in that case you should be seeing this technology very soon! I keep forgetting that DSL delivers everywhere except the good ol' USA.

dslwanter
Why would I want DSL? I have FTTH
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Lowellville, OH
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Cool

And the war will continue . Though I'm on the DSL half for at least another year (one year contract), I find it interesting how like Verizon is upgrading to fiber and how SBC is to try ADSL2+, and now cable possibly offering this. It seems like Cable and DSL Co's are sending more troops out to the fields if you know what I mean.
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lazarus_

join:2002-08-31
Resolute, NU

I hope Cogeco uses this technology.

With 6Mbit/640kbps and 10Mbit/1Mbit tiers, this will definitely help alleviate node congestion and give better overall bandwidth to customers.
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hqh51

join:2001-03-24
Manassas, VA

Re: I hope Cogeco uses this technology.

I want Verizon's FIOS instead. Comcast will still screw people over. Even if we had such technology implemented, Comcast will still hit users with the invisible cap.
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FastDSL

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Snellville, GA

....

third quarter of 2005 if even then

UnKown
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Orlando, FL
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internal networks

While providing 1 gigabit of data to homes is awesome that 1 gigabit is going to be mighty expensive. So this will never see the light of day on the public side of the network. However if this is implemented into each node of a cable company in a state, They could set it up as a Lan. Example, all cable users in the state could send files at 1 gigabit to each other. This would make me very happy, and the cable companys happy too. They could then sell me 1 gigabit a sec Internal, and 512kb/s external. So when i browse the web im getting at 512, but when im downloading movies off friends its coming it at 580 megs a sec. ok im going o stop dreaming
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