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50Mbps Cable Launched on Long Island

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the zippy dept.

the-dark-kangaroo writes "Cable Vision have teamed up with Narad Networks to provide a new 50Mbps broadband service in the New York metropolitan area. The current deployment has a capability of 100Mbps (the connections are symmetric) with future developments allowing up to 10Gbps connections. The system utilises current cabling systems allowing enterprise level connections to homes and businesses."

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  1. Here We Go... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is it protected from the rats and a bad power supplies? The industry spends billions of dollars building out the infrastructure but can't seem to protect from it from natural causes.

  2. yeah but is it ipv6? by che.kai-jei · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    or are lots of addresses cheap?

  3. Captain Nit Pick to the Rescue! by mustangsal66 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here in Sweden you can already get 100 mbit up/down

    Hell, AOL dialup can give you 100 millibits per second up and down... or did you mean 100 M(ega)bit...

    Capitalization makes a difference, with both the m and the b in reference to data flow.

    Mega vs. milli and bits vs. Bytes

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