
An excellent article in this month's LIGHTWAVE Magazine on Cable's entry into 
traditionally-LEC and ISP deployments. In fact, Cablevision's Lightpath division 
is a registered LEC in its own right:

http://lw.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?
Section=ARTCL&ARTICLE_ID=204382&VERSION_NUM=1&pc=ENL

Frank

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 14:09 , Curtis Maurand <curtis@maurand.com> sent:

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>That's how time-warner is doing it here in Maine.  However, they've 
>assigned voip to its own channel while digital channels occupy another and 
>hdtv signals are compressed and on another, etc.  Its a 1Ghz system. 
>Everything on the system is IP including the control boxes.  They also 
>have certain video and PPV on demand as well.  Very interesting system 
>that serves as a model for the rest of the country.  Whatever they do they 
>roll it out here first and this system totally rocks.  I regularly get 
>downloads at 3Mbps.
>
>Curtis
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>On Sun, 30 May 2004, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:
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>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> This is a great discussion.  I'm interested in understanding these types of
>> limitations in the context of HFC cable networks.  In my opinion, HDTV
>> channel bandwidth (30mhz?) , increased demand for voip, and growing demand
>> for IP connectivity is going to stress the cable network model as well,
>> forcing cable operators to convert everything to IP before going out across
>> the wire.  Any input is appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Christopher
>>





