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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. 4 Years... I wish by Armando_Mcgillicutty · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I'll be moving up from my 768k dsl sometime around 2020 I'm afraid...

    Rural America is fun fun fun.

  2. Yeah, bandwidth is great. by bersl2 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now, what about latency and QoS?

    And there was way too much mention of IPTV and you-know-who, with their "the future may run through us alone" attitude, in that article for it to be palatable.

  3. SBC, lying again about high speed DSL by Animats · · Score: 4, Interesting
    SBC trots this out whenever they want something from regulatory authorities. But they don't actually install it.

    Read this 1999 article about SBC's 'Project Pronto'. " According to SBC, when the expanded deployment program is completed [in three years] customers will be able to receive minimum downstream connection speedsof 1.5 megabits per second, with more than 60 percent eligible to receive guaranteed speeds of 6 megabits a second." Right.

    SBC's new "Project Lightspeed" isn't about the Internet at all. It's just cable TV, implemented using Windows Media 9 over DSL using Scientific-Atlanta set-top boxes. The system doesn't use the Internet at all. It has its own infrastructure, which is a Microsoft-implemented multicast implementation.

    It's not about Internet access at all. All you can get is what they want to send you. Lightspeed will block access to Internet video.