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Next-Gen Broadband Primer

Posted by Zonk on from the faster-and-faster dept.

Aaron writes "Broadband Reports has a good read on the real deal behind next generation broadband deployments. In four years: half all Verizon DSL users should have fiber, half of all SBC subscribers should have 10-20Mbps DSL, and one tenth of all BellSouth customers should have 50Mbps DSL. At the same time cable companies should begin deploying DOCSIS 3.0 technology in 2006, eventually bringing 100Mbps speeds to end users."

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  1. This just in... by nrlightfoot · · Score: 5, Funny

    And the cable companies will still only give you 32kb of upstream.

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