Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Faster Upstream Cable Speeds Arriving In 2011

The first incarnation of the cable broadband DOCSIS 3.0 standard is theoretically capable of 160 Mbps downstream, and 100 Mbps upstream, on a shared basis. But upstream channel bonding has been hard to perfect, some would note.

For that reason, cable broadband tiers like 50 Mbps down and 5 Mbps upstream, or even in some cases 100 Mbps downstream and just 2 Mbps upstream. Such problems tend to get resolved over time, and new gear might be part of the solution.

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