GNG News Guy
02-27-2008, 02:13 PM
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While Comcast has been very chatty in general about their DOCSIS 3.0 upgrades, demonstrating 150Mbps service several times last year to fawning media adoration, the company has kept deployment details, speed tier and pricing information close to the vest (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/88281).
What we know so far is that the company says the upgrades can be accomplished with "couch change," (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/83684) and that they'll be aiming to have 20% of their footprint upgraded with the speedier service by the end of this year. DSLPrime (http://www.dslprime.com/)'s Dave Burstein has some interesting additional information in his most recent industry newsletter:50 megabit, upstream and down, available to half the homes in America in 2010?
Brian Roberts of Comcast is leading the charge, planning to upgrade to DOCSIS 3.0 for ten million homes in 2009. That's half his network. Motorola believes they will be able to deliver that speed in the upstream as well as the downstream, with equipment everyone is hoping will ship by the end of this year. This could be a nightmare for AT&T, Bell Canada, Qwest, and British Telecom. Comcast will be 20 times as fast as U-Verse on the upstream, and easily twice as fast downstream. The manufacturers tell me they are ready to supply equipment for 30-60M U.S. homes by 2010 if the cablecos want to move quickly. While the CTOs are very excited, the CFOs haven't yet approved the spending in other U.S. cablecos.
At the moment, limited upstream bandwidth is a seriously liability when competing with Verizon's symmetrical FiOS service (and, as evident by recent news, handling upstream P2P demand). With just a "couple billion dollars" and two solid years work, Comcast can be in a prime position to compete with Verizon's $23 billion FiOS deployment, and surpass what's offered by AT&T's $6.5 billion FTTN U-Verse deployment.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-5050Mbps-To-Half-Their-Users-by-2010-92207)
While Comcast has been very chatty in general about their DOCSIS 3.0 upgrades, demonstrating 150Mbps service several times last year to fawning media adoration, the company has kept deployment details, speed tier and pricing information close to the vest (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/88281).
What we know so far is that the company says the upgrades can be accomplished with "couch change," (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/83684) and that they'll be aiming to have 20% of their footprint upgraded with the speedier service by the end of this year. DSLPrime (http://www.dslprime.com/)'s Dave Burstein has some interesting additional information in his most recent industry newsletter:50 megabit, upstream and down, available to half the homes in America in 2010?
Brian Roberts of Comcast is leading the charge, planning to upgrade to DOCSIS 3.0 for ten million homes in 2009. That's half his network. Motorola believes they will be able to deliver that speed in the upstream as well as the downstream, with equipment everyone is hoping will ship by the end of this year. This could be a nightmare for AT&T, Bell Canada, Qwest, and British Telecom. Comcast will be 20 times as fast as U-Verse on the upstream, and easily twice as fast downstream. The manufacturers tell me they are ready to supply equipment for 30-60M U.S. homes by 2010 if the cablecos want to move quickly. While the CTOs are very excited, the CFOs haven't yet approved the spending in other U.S. cablecos.
At the moment, limited upstream bandwidth is a seriously liability when competing with Verizon's symmetrical FiOS service (and, as evident by recent news, handling upstream P2P demand). With just a "couple billion dollars" and two solid years work, Comcast can be in a prime position to compete with Verizon's $23 billion FiOS deployment, and surpass what's offered by AT&T's $6.5 billion FTTN U-Verse deployment.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-5050Mbps-To-Half-Their-Users-by-2010-92207)