[39090] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable Modem [really good network design]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Tue Jun 26 14:42:35 2001
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From: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: Fletcher E Kittredge <fkittred@gwi.net>
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Reply-To: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:37:34 -0400 (EDT)
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[ On Tuesday, June 26, 2001 at 13:05:40 (-0400), Fletcher E Kittredge wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Cable Modem [really good network design]
>
> I strongly recommend you spend some quality time with the DOCSIS
> spec... Personally, I think DSL and wireless modems would benefit from
> using DOCSIS. I have not thought hard about this issue and am
> interested in other opinions...
You do learn fast! ;-)
However you'd better watch out. DOCSIS-1.0 is an implementer's worst
nightmare. At best it provides a low-level physical layer spec. and the
rest of it is pretty much useless in prodcution. 2.0 solves some of the
problems, but introduces more.
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Greg A. Woods
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