Comcast CEO Shows Off Superfast Modem

Gary writes "Comcast CEO dazzled cable industry audience by showcasing a super quick modem, using a technology called DOCSIS 3.0. It was developed by the cable industry's research arm, Cable Television Laboratories. It bonds together four cable lines but is capable of allowing much more capacity enabling a data download speed of 150 megabits per second, or roughly 25 times faster than today's standard cable modems. 'The new cable technology is crucial because the industry is competing with a speedy new offering called FiOS, a TV and Internet service that Verizon Communications Inc. is selling over a new fiber-optic network. The top speed currently available through FiOS is 50 megabits per second, but the network already is capable of providing 100 mbps, and the fiber lines offer nearly unlimited potential.'"

Comments

Technical Mumbo Jumbo

[dsginter]

Can someone clarify for the non-technical types (such as myself) what "superfast" actually means?

Re:Technical Mumbo Jumbo

[CaptainPatent]

It's just a little bit faster than reallyfast and a little bit slower than UBERfast

Re:Technical Mumbo Jumbo

[UF00]

wake me up when they offer ludicrous speed

Re:Technical Mumbo Jumbo

[admdrew]

Wake me up when they've gone plaid.

Re:Technical Mumbo Jumbo

[secondstory756]

The top speed currently available through FiOS is 50 megabits per second, but the network already is capable of providing 100 mbps

I always thought the trend was towards faster, newer, better, but apparently getting 100 millibits per second is the new goal! Err, wait, is Verizon filling in for zonk?

Re:Technical Mumbo Jumbo

[ATMD]

Cymru? Not yet, then - it's still mostly Labour...

Re:Technical Mumbo Jumbo

[itchy92]

See, the problem is that here in the U.S., we're not accustomed to metric measurements and notation. Megabits, kilobytes, these things mean nothing to us.

Therefore, I propose the U.S. instate a new standard of measurement in accordance with our SI units. There will be 3 bits in a byte, 5,280 bits in a kilobyte, and 43,560 square bits (or 4,840 square bytes) in a megabyte. I think we can all agree that this is much more logical.

(Sigh)

/Sorry, rest of the world

4 lines = 25 times faster?!

[CaptainPatent]

That means 16 cables should be 625 times as fast

and 128 cables... oh my god

Quick, get the bonding glue and a spool of coax!

It's download time!!!

Can o' worms

[Applekid]

In a related story, RIAA and MPAA have both filed suit in court to preemptively obtain ISP subscriber information before any infringement can occur.

"It's an important step forward for the Web 3.0," Ebeneezer Swindler, lawyer for the RIAA, said. "Someone could get on that evil BitTorrent site and download our content. This happens so fast that by the time we logged in we couldn't even see their IP addresses. Our current technology requires us to temporarily join the pirates so we could get their information... it's no good if they'd already stolen what they needed and gotten out of there!"

"It's NO good," reiterated Swindler, with peculiar emphasis on the "NO."

No government official could be reached for comment as they were busy preordering ivory backscratchers from expected additional campaign contributions from the MAFIAA.

Re:Still not fast enough...

[eln]

Dude, have you seen any porn stars up close? The last thing you want is HD porn.

Slowskies

[StarvingSE]

At this rate, they're NEVER gonna get the Slowskies away from their beloved ADSL and get them to become Comcast subscribers...

Re:Saturation

[SvetBeard]

And maybe I'm not understanding, but I only have 1 cable line running into my house. So how does this help me? Does this require them to lay more lines?

Dude, just go to Radio Shack and get a few cable splitters. Problem solved.

Re:Funny definition of competition

[Anonymous Coward]

why do you hate our freedom?

Re:Still not fast enough...

[vertinox]

Dude, have you seen any real women up close? The last thing you want is a girlfriend.

Re:Saturation

[dattaway]

Dude, just go to Radio Shack and get a few cable splitters. Problem solved.

That is if your local Radio Shack sells anything besides cell phones.

The best part

[Statecraftsman]

The best part of this new technology?

The new modem still has the limitation of only ~300k of upstream bandwidth. It's totally win-win.

Hah!

[tttonyyy]

They'll all cower before my "uberfast" modem, which bonds an unspecified number of tight strings to give a speed increase up to 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0 times greater than reading a DVD a byte at a time over the phone to your mate with a hex editor.

Re:Saturation

[norminator]

And maybe I'm not understanding, but I only have 1 cable line running into my house. So how does this help me? Does this require them to lay more lines?

Dude, just go to Radio Shack and get a few cable splitters. Problem solved.

Spoken like someone who works for Radio Shack.
(I know it was a joke, and I'm joking too... sort of.)

Re:4 Channels, not 4 Cables

[TheNinjaroach]

Most Slashdot articles are neither new nor revolutionary, just be happy it's not a dupe (yet)!