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Title: Comcast Shows Off Super-Fast Cable Modem
Post by: honvetops on May 10, 2007, 04:50:29 AM

LAS VEGAS —
Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) Chief Executive Brian Roberts dazzled a cable industry audience Tuesday, showing off for the first time in public new technology that enabled a data download speed of 150 megabits per second, or roughly 25 times faster than today's standard cable modems.

The cost of modems that would support the technology, called "channel bonding," is "not that dissimilar to modems today," he told The Associated Press after a demonstration at The Cable Show. It could be available "within less than a couple years," he said.

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. (VZ) is selling over a new fiber-optic network.

The top speed currently available through FiOS is 50 megabits per second, but the network is already capable of providing 100 Mbps and the fiber lines offer nearly unlimited potential.

The technology, called DOCSIS 3.0, 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.

The laboratory said last month it expected manufacturers to begin submitting modems for certification under the standard by the end of the year.

In the presentation, ARRIS Group Inc. chief executive Robert Stanzione downloaded a 30-second, 300-megabyte television commercial in a few seconds and watched it long before a standard modem worked through an estimated download time of 16 minutes.

Stanzione also downloaded the 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica 2007 and Merriam-Webster's visual dictionary in under four minutes, when it would have taken a standard modem three hours and 12 minutes.

"If you look at what just happened, 55 million words, 100,000 articles, more than 22,000 pictures, maps and more than 400 video clips," Roberts said. "The same download on dial-up would have taken two weeks."

Other cable industry executives, including Time Warner Inc. (TWX) Chief Executive Richard Parsons, News Corp. (NWS) President Peter Chernin and Viacom Inc. (VIA) Chief Executive Philippe Dauman, cheered the demonstration during a panel afterward.   :)

Brian Dietz, spokesman for the conference host, the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, said the demonstration was the key technological advance showcased at the conference.

"It's an exponential step forward and we're very excited," Roberts said. "What consumers actually do with all this speed is up to the imagination of the entrepreneurs of tomorrow."
Title: Re: Comcast Shows Off Super-Fast Cable Modem
Post by: 2k_dummy on May 10, 2007, 05:40:07 AM
Sounds great, but........
I wonder how they intend to overcome the deterioration of speed with their present method of shared bandwidth. A demonstration with one client and one server can be very impressive. In the real world there might be 20+ people in a neighborhood sharing that bandwidth. And, "It bonds together four cable lines", how do they plan to handle that on the comsumer end?
Title: Re: Comcast Shows Off Super-Fast Cable Modem
Post by: patio on May 10, 2007, 08:09:15 AM
I agree with 2K...most times now the bottleneck is the infrastructure itself...not the transmission methods.
Until this is addressed seriously you will be stuck with what you got depending on your location.
Title: Re: Comcast Shows Off Super-Fast Cable Modem
Post by: CBMatt on May 10, 2007, 08:13:07 AM
In any case, it's certainly much better than my crappy dial-up.  Argh.  *suicide*
Title: Re: Comcast Shows Off Super-Fast Cable Modem
Post by: Carbon Dudeoxide on May 10, 2007, 08:15:57 AM
Super-fast internet connection, we start loading the page before you press the button  :P
Title: Re: Comcast Shows Off Super-Fast Cable Modem
Post by: honvetops on May 11, 2007, 02:21:27 PM
In any case, it's certainly much better than my crappy dial-up.  Argh.  *suicide*


Hey look at it this way !!! Dial -up is way better than the alternative in MY day~

Lucy..... ;D  Re-runs!!!!!

Cra*$%#p !!  who would have thought we would have all these choices to get online 12 years ago!!!  It's  awesome..... just stay away from the cancer-AOL   :-X
Title: Re: Comcast Shows Off Super-Fast Cable Modem
Post by: CBMatt on May 11, 2007, 11:10:49 PM
I actually kinda like having AOL.  Ha.
Title: Re: Comcast Shows Off Super-Fast Cable Modem
Post by: honvetops on May 12, 2007, 05:11:09 AM
Not a joke*  I was one of the people that experienced the absolutely ridiculous customer service call regarding my cancellation from aol.... It wasn't quite as bad as the one on the net but pretty darn difficult to get them to cancel my membership..
Title: Re: Comcast Shows Off Super-Fast Cable Modem
Post by: CBMatt on May 12, 2007, 06:16:36 AM
My cancellation attempts in past have gone pretty well, I'd say.  Like I mentioned awhile back on the Off-Topic board, I managed to get two years of free service.
Title: Re: Comcast Shows Off Super-Fast Cable Modem
Post by: Dilbert on May 12, 2007, 08:13:24 AM
Super-fast internet connection, we start loading the page before you press the button  :P

LOL ;D

I don't get it. If I submitted to using the cable for our router instead of a WiFi PCI card, I'd already have 100 mb/s; what's so special about another method of getting 100 MB/s?
Title: Re: Comcast Shows Off Super-Fast Cable Modem
Post by: patio on May 12, 2007, 09:06:37 AM
The extra bandwidth is so they can read your thoughts and anticipate your needs...
Title: Re: Comcast Shows Off Super-Fast Cable Modem
Post by: CBMatt on May 12, 2007, 11:40:16 AM
I think my girlfriend needs some extra bandwidth.
Title: Re: Comcast Shows Off Super-Fast Cable Modem
Post by: Raptor on May 12, 2007, 02:57:08 PM
Did you open her ports yet?
Title: Re: Comcast Shows Off Super-Fast Cable Modem
Post by: patio on May 12, 2007, 07:32:45 PM
Did you open her ports yet?

I thought we covered this on his last visit...
Title: Re: Comcast Shows Off Super-Fast Cable Modem
Post by: CBMatt on May 13, 2007, 02:05:56 AM
The extra bandwidth is so they can read your thoughts and anticipate your needs...
This is the kind of bandwidth I'm referring to.
Title: Re: Comcast Shows Off Super-Fast Cable Modem
Post by: Carbon Dudeoxide on May 13, 2007, 02:37:11 AM
wireless connection to someone's head
Title: Re: Comcast Shows Off Super-Fast Cable Modem
Post by: Raptor on May 13, 2007, 06:55:08 AM
The extra bandwidth is so they can read your thoughts and anticipate your needs...
This is the kind of bandwidth I'm referring to.

Sounds like she needs a reboot..


 ;D
Title: Re: Comcast Shows Off Super-Fast Cable Modem
Post by: Dilbert on May 13, 2007, 07:47:34 AM
If a modem runs on thoughts, do they need to be good thoughts?

"Windows needs to reboot to get the image out of its head (sicko), please close all open apps and click OK."

Just think of the havoc at the school!

"Hey guys, I'm surfing with my thoughts!" *looks at girl he thinks is cute in computer lab* *porn pops up* *suspended/expelled*

:D
Title: Re: Comcast Shows Off Super-Fast Cable Modem
Post by: Raptor on May 13, 2007, 07:50:10 AM
I'm sure that havoc will ensue with or without thought surfing. At least it did on mine.  :)
Title: Re: Comcast Shows Off Super-Fast Cable Modem
Post by: Ledio on May 18, 2007, 02:29:22 PM
Im wondering what would happen if i had that modem!!!
I couln't think about internet cuz the page opens before i think it!!!
Title: Re: Comcast Shows Off Super-Fast Cable Modem
Post by: CBMatt on May 19, 2007, 03:54:54 AM
OMG wow LOLZZZZZZ!!!!