DOCSIS 3.0 » News http://www.docsis-30.com Superfast Internet Transmission Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:13:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Forget FiOS, DOCSIS 3.0 is Coming! http://www.docsis-30.com/forget-fios-docsis-30-is-coming/ http://www.docsis-30.com/forget-fios-docsis-30-is-coming/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:10:35 +0000 polszewski http://www.docsis-30.com/?p=349 Nothing gets me more giddy than learning about new Internet technologies that may wind up in my household one day and today’s AP article about Comcast’s demo of DOCSIS 3.0 is no exception. Currently, cable modems use a coaxial cable line to shoot data down a TV channel. The fastest throughput this method has been able to achieve lies around 8-10 megabits.

A new revision of cable modem technology dubbed DOCSIS 3.0 uses four TV channels for data delivery and delivers an unbelievable 150 megabit per second download speed! Unfortunately, the article didn’t say what kind of upload speed this new technology will be able to provide but I was able to research and find a potential upload speed for DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems of around 120mbps.

In the presentation, ARRIS Group Inc. chief executive Robert Stanzione downloaded a 30-second, 300-megabyte television commercial in a few seconds and watched it long before a standard modem worked through an estimated download time of 16 minutes.

Generally, I would much rather use an Internet service based around fiber lines (FiOS) than old coaxial lines but Verizon’s FiOS service has been rather slow at laying new fiber lines to residential areas. Cable providers should be able to offer DOCSIS 3.0 service to residential areas “within less than a couple years”. What does this mean? This means that within 5 years we might be seeing YouTube HD (if YouTube is still around…) in addition to many more people relying on online data storage to safeguard personal documents, perhaps even an online OS.

source: paulstamatiou.com

]]> http://www.docsis-30.com/forget-fios-docsis-30-is-coming/feed/ 0 DOCSIS 3.0 Suddenly Spreading Rapidly http://www.docsis-30.com/docsis-30-suddenly-spreading-rapidly/ http://www.docsis-30.com/docsis-30-suddenly-spreading-rapidly/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:35:46 +0000 polszewski http://www.docsis-30.com/?p=138 Even more interesting, Cablevision is now saying it will be ready to deploy DOCSIS 3.0 service tiers within months. The new fixed-line broadband offerings are part of a Cablevision project that also includes providing free Wi-Fi to its customers over the next year or so.

After what seemed like a lot of hurry up and wait, suddenly DOCSIS 3.0 services are popping up everywhere. Comcast has sped up deployments to make its goal of having DOCSIS 3.0 rolled out across 20% of its footprint by the end of this year. The latest market additions include the Baltimore metro area and northern and northwestern Chicago suburbs. Comcast promises that more of metro Chicago, parts of Indiana, new Atlanta communities, and the rest of the Baltimore region will follow in the next six months. And we heard word not long ago that parts of Washington and Oregon are also coming up on the DOCSIS 3.0 roadmap.

Remarkably, we haven’t yet seen a slowdown in DOCSIS 3.0 deployments despite the state of the economy. There’s reason to like the investment. Data services bring in higher margins than traditional video.

source: connectedhome2go.com

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