I remember hearing about super high speed fiber lines coming into residential areas back in like 2005 (i think). Super Fast Data, Voice, and Cable over fiber-optic. I thought it was gonna take over.. So what happened?
I remember hearing about super high speed fiber lines coming into residential areas back in like 2005 (i think). Super Fast Data, Voice, and Cable over fiber-optic. I thought it was gonna take over.. So what happened?
How DARE Verizon spend a lot of capital to build a better future? That puts a drag on profits NOW, and we can't have that, can we?
Maybe cable and Docsis 3.1 (up to 10Gbps down/2Gbps up on copper) will bring some gigabit joy to the masses in the near future, especially considering that cable operators are starting to roll out up to 300Mbps on Docsis 3.0 (Comcast IIRC).
Also, IIRC, there seems to be work on putting TV on TCP/IP, therefore eliminating the dual, separate bandwidth requirements for internet and TV. There was talk that this would vastly improve speeds on copper and would be cheaper for the ISP's/TV operators to deploy and maintain vs what they are using now. Time will tell I suppose.
Also makes me wonder how far "Google Fiber" will go now, especially with the government (FCC) pushing gigabit internet to all the states as quickly as possible (I'm assuming government subsidized networking, etc.)
At the end of the day, DOCSIS is a hack, just like DSL. It happens to scale a lot better for two reasons: coax cable has more bandwidth, and the cable guys built out (had to) fiber-to-the-node, so for a long while now it's actually worked more like the AT&T U-Verse implementation of DSL than the more traditional home-run (to the CO or to a big RT) implementation of DSL. But you're still trying to shoehorn data service into a cable technology - and often, a cable plant - that wasn't built for it, and you hit physical limits and run into voodoo reliability problems and it's a big headache.
At some point, the cable guys are going to have to face the music and go FTTH too.
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I can agree with you that at some point, FTTH is going to have to happen.
I can agree with you that at some point, FTTH is going to have to happen. But at this point, to get 30 to 100 times the current bandwidth (or more) without laying all new lines is nothing to sneeze at.
If you're close to the node Comcast offers FTTH.
I remember hearing about super high speed fiber lines coming into residential areas back in like 2005 (i think). Super Fast Data, Voice, and Cable over fiber-optic. I thought it was gonna take over.. So what happened?