At the Cable Show 2011 conference in Chicago, ARRIS is demoing a new technology that delivers 4.5 Gbps download and 575 Mbps upload speeds over a cable connection. The system steals its bandwidth from DOCSIS cable channels, about 128 channels are pilfered for the downstream and 24 for the upstream connection.
Yes, that means you will receive 848 channels instead of 1,000, but who’s complaining. By the time this proof of concept technology makes it to your cable router, most of us will be watching all our TV on Hulu, Netflix or some other IPTV provider anyway. [MaximumPC]
Iain Graham
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 5:54 PMQuick! Cancel the NBN!
DarthDVD
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 5:58 PMCable… as in AUSTAR/Foxtel… not Pot’s (plain old telephone system)…..
Even if the Opposition does pick this up and runs with it… it still means running out 1000′s of Km of copper cable… that cant be upgraded by replacing the lazers at either end.
SF.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 5:59 PMNot as fast as fibre, but it could be a good solution for the US where many homes have cable already.
ozoneocean
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 9:40 PMI don’t really get the cable VS fibre thing here…? As far as I know, most cable providers upgraded their lines to fibre where they could anyway, didn’t they? Even in Australia, Telstra’s pay TV network was mostly fibre, with copper cables to homes.
This is tech that will compliment fibre, not compete. Because most modern providers would have both sorts of tech simultaneously.
And that DSL thing in the article was silly- it was mostly cable providers that drove fibre. DSL was just about getting extra life from crappy old copper phone lines!
Seamus Byrne
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 5:06 PMYeah, not quite sure why Kelly got all ‘fancy, schmancy’ on that one…