[70977] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable networks RE: best effort has economic problems, maybe OT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (frank@dticonsulting.com)
Thu Jun 3 07:48:44 2004
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 06:28:41 -0500
From: <frank@dticonsulting.com>
To: "'Christopher J. Wolff'" <chris@bblabs.com>, nanog@merit.edu,
Curtis Maurand <curtis@maurand.com>
Reply-To: frank@dticonsulting.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
An excellent article in this month's LIGHTWAVE Magazine on Cable's entry into
traditionally-LEC and ISP deployments. In fact, Cablevision's Lightpath division
is a registered LEC in its own right:
http://lw.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?
Section=ARTCL&ARTICLE_ID=204382&VERSION_NUM=1&pc=ENL
Frank
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 14:09 , Curtis Maurand <curtis@maurand.com> sent:
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>That's how time-warner is doing it here in Maine. However, they've
>assigned voip to its own channel while digital channels occupy another and
>hdtv signals are compressed and on another, etc. Its a 1Ghz system.
>Everything on the system is IP including the control boxes. They also
>have certain video and PPV on demand as well. Very interesting system
>that serves as a model for the rest of the country. Whatever they do they
>roll it out here first and this system totally rocks. I regularly get
>downloads at 3Mbps.
>
>Curtis
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>--
>Curtis Maurand
>curtis@maurand.com','','','')">curtis@maurand.com
>http://www.maurand.com
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>On Sun, 30 May 2004, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:
>
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> This is a great discussion. I'm interested in understanding these types of
>> limitations in the context of HFC cable networks. In my opinion, HDTV
>> channel bandwidth (30mhz?) , increased demand for voip, and growing demand
>> for IP connectivity is going to stress the cable network model as well,
>> forcing cable operators to convert everything to IP before going out across
>> the wire. Any input is appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Christopher
>>
