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Verizon To Use New Tech With Old Cables
Ant wrote to mention a ZDNet article about a new initive to get modern high-speed net access into homes utilizing old coaxial cable lines. Right now Verizon digs up streets and lays out expensive fiber to get homes online, but new tech may let them accomplish that task for much less hassle and expense. From the article: "Later this year, it plans to use new technology from the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) , an industry group that promotes using coaxial cable installed for cable TV to transmit broadband around the home. The organization says that its technology supports speeds up to 270 megabits per second. Because most homes already have coaxial cable installed in several rooms, Verizon can significantly reduce its Fios installation costs by using existing cabling to connect home computers to its broadband service."
I'll start holding my breath now.
Verizon came and fixed my voice line last week - we had a lot of noise and other people's phone calls on our line. Unfortunately this also 'fixed' my DSL connection, which hasn't worked since then. Perhaps by using a separate set of wires for voice and data this kind of problem will go away. Of course once everyone starts using VoIP for thier phone calls....
..several Telecom firms are planning to introduce amazing new technology that allows the Internet to go through telephone lines. Also, in the distant horizon, talks are beginning to emerge about telephony itself going over telephone lines, and even an exciting new breakthrough called the telegraph has been mentioned.
Will code a sig generator for food
And men do not put new bits in old wires, else the wires rot and the bits leak out; but they put new bits in new wires so that reliability is preserved.
thought they learned the last time not to band-aid these issues.
Well, a band-aid costs about $0.10, whereas surgery could easily run more than $10,000. Both have their place, and I'm sure Verizon has done the math to see which will be most profitable in the long run.
Eventually it will be Christmas again, so why not put up a Christmas tree?
Eventually the sun will burn out, so why not buy these flashlights from me?
Eventually we're all going to die, so why not have your funeral today?
It really is a pain in the ass when people offer more bandwidth, isn't it? Just yesterday, I was looking at my 1200 baud modem, thinking to myself, "I have no idea why people are pulling ethernet cable in their homes, when 1200 baud is enough for anyone."
Your formula works on everything from the Segway to just about every bill the Bush administration has pushed through congress on the premise it will do X or Y.
Here in Montreal, Canada, this has been available for at least 10 years (...)
Allow me to clear this up: The article is discussing a technology which enhances transfer bandwidth over existing coaxial cable networks, to near parity with fiber.
I'm pretty sure you were thinking of secessionist politics.
Hu? Wait, you mean /. threads have articles associated with them? That can't be right....
sorry it's late thats the best I can do.
500 dollar reward for tip(s) leading to the arrest of the person(s) who stole my sig.
You can't teach an old cable new techs.
"I used to run my school computer lab on co-ax. What a pain. The connectors were always breaking. They didn't have to completely break either, they just had to go slightly bad and they'd take down the whole network. Anyway I suppose they will come up with a solution that has 'more conventional' connectors because most NICs don't have co-ax connectors."
Hmmm... sounds like the token fell out. Why don't check to see if it rolled under your desk?
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Did no one read the article?
The article? Hell, I didn't bother to read your whole response! As a typical slashdot reader I am far to busy thinking how to vote in the next poll to read anything. I just post here.
What was it you were saying again?
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