I agree with you completely. Although the article stated that the technology (based on today's Ethernet) that they are developing is focusing on interference and crosstalk issues in order to use existing copper wire infrastructure. Isn't that DSL 2.0? Yikes...
Just because the cable modems are capable of datarates of 10-30Mb/s doesn't mean that the network as a whole will be able to operate at those speeds.
If there was one modem on the neighborhood's cable circuit that would be fine, but in most people's neighborhood there are a lot of modems connected to the same circuit.
So if everyone tweaked their modems to a high data rate, there would be some network congestion of mass proportions.
The cable circuit in your neighborhood has a limit and so that is why most people are capped at 128Kb/s upload..
No. The fiber network is too sophisticated and expensive to run directly into the home. The equipment (fiber lines, transceivers) is too inviable economically to run into every home in the block whereas you can just run one line into the block and distribute it with cheaper and simpler technology. (i.e. Ethernet over Copper pairs)
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I agree with you completely. Although the article stated that the technology (based on today's Ethernet) that they are developing is focusing on interference and crosstalk issues in order to use existing copper wire infrastructure. Isn't that DSL 2.0? Yikes...
Just because the cable modems are capable of datarates of 10-30Mb/s doesn't mean that the network as a whole will be able to operate at those speeds. If there was one modem on the neighborhood's cable circuit that would be fine, but in most people's neighborhood there are a lot of modems connected to the same circuit.
So if everyone tweaked their modems to a high data rate, there would be some network congestion of mass proportions. The cable circuit in your neighborhood has a limit and so that is why most people are capped at 128Kb/s upload..
No. The fiber network is too sophisticated and expensive to run directly into the home. The equipment (fiber lines, transceivers) is too inviable economically to run into every home in the block whereas you can just run one line into the block and distribute it with cheaper and simpler technology. (i.e. Ethernet over Copper pairs)