NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] 5 Gbps networking to the home via cable? Sure! BUT ...
----- Forwarded message from Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> ----- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:16:23 -0400 From: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> Subject: [IP] 5 Gbps networking to the home? May be coming to a neighborhood near yours Reply-To: dave@farber.net To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com> Begin forwarded message: > From: Richard Bennett <richard@bennett.com> > Date: April 26, 2010 4:02:42 PM EDT > To: dave@farber.net > Subject: 5 Gbps networking to the home? May be coming to a neighborhood > near yours > > Perhaps the Google 1 Gbps home networking project isn't ambitious > enough. New architectures for a post-DOCSIS world can push the data > rate of cable broadband to 5 Gbps or even higher: > > Cable's next major broadband technology platform may throw DOCSIS out > the window -- but it is envisioned to let operators economically > deliver gobs of bandwidth over existing coaxial cable. > > CableLabs, the industry's research and development consortium, is in > the earliest stages of investigating a new platform for data-over-coax > transmission reconceived from the ground up, according to people > familiar with the project. > > The concept, if it comes to fruition, could let cable operators deliver > extremely high speeds downstream, of up to 5 Gigabits per second -- or > even more. > > The new platform potentially represents a major architectural change > for existing cable systems. "It's almost a complete relook at how you do > data over coax," said a cable-technology executive briefed on the > CableLabs project. "If you were to convert all the spectrum in a > typical cable system to data you could easily get 5 Gigabits per > second." > > But there are a number of caveats... > > Read the whole thing at: http://www.multichannel.com/article/451860-CableLabs_Next_Gen_Broadband_Project_Envisions_Multigigabit_Speeds.php > The key is getting rid of the 6 Mhz TV channels and flattening the > pipe. > > RB > -- > Richard Bennett > Research Fellow > Information Technology and Innovation Foundation > Washington, DC ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message -----