50Mbps Cable Launched on Long Island 291
the-dark-kangaroo writes "Cable Vision have teamed up with Narad Networks to provide a new 50Mbps broadband service in the New York metropolitan area. The current deployment has a capability of 100Mbps (the connections are symmetric) with future developments allowing up to 10Gbps connections. The system utilises current cabling systems allowing enterprise level connections to homes and businesses."
very nice (Score:2, Insightful)
It's the beginning... (Score:5, Insightful)
And probably 10gb a month transfer limit (Score:5, Insightful)
fttp... (Score:5, Insightful)
what will you even use it for? (Score:4, Insightful)
Cablevision service nightmare (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:As much as Long Island sucks... (Score:4, Insightful)
In case you haven't noticed, there are all kinds of prohibited bits and bytes out there today. Moreover, just because the data is legal doesn't mean I want GS-7 scumbags to be looking at what I read and write.
So...
Fuck you.
Re:what will you even use it for? (Score:5, Insightful)
There are thousands of useful and totally legal things that can be done with very high speed connections that can't be done very effectively with the current "broadband" offerings. Just because it can be used for illegal activities doesn't mean those are the only uses for such connections.
Re:what will you even use it for? (Score:5, Insightful)
There are tons of uses for more bandwidth. One only needs to envision online services such as fast system backups, multimedia mail, videophones, on-demand HDTV over ip, . . .
just my 2 cents.
Re:They can't even handle 10mbit/1mbit (Score:2, Insightful)
they don't understand the idea of a "network" ( ie two way communication)
I see no point in letting them boast about hight speed connections unless they acutely let people use it.
I don't care. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:As much as Long Island sucks... (Score:5, Insightful)
Like North Korea or Saudi Arabia.
I suppose next you'll want to ban digital cameras. What? No? Don't you know they can be used to produce child pornography? You support child porn!
Damn, I'm looking at my monitor and do you know what? It can be used to view child porn! Must. Destroy. It. Immediately.
My eyes, they can see! But that means, they can be used to look at child pornography! Somebody blind me quick!
Where do we get these fucking retards from?
Memories... (Score:4, Insightful)
I also remember thinking that the World Wide Web was just a passing fad.
If service providers can give enough consumers more bandwidth, content providers will give consumers more to download.
mass photo-uploading, OOL capped me. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:It's the beginning... (Score:2, Insightful)
For digital services like video on demand, the box uses shared-key security and the MAC address to authenticate and "unlock", then the node just pushes the content down like data, letting the box handle the reassembly and decoding of picture/audio data.
My Scientific-Atlanta DVR has two tuners and gets two IP-addresses - one for each tuner.
Proprietary systems are bad (Score:3, Insightful)
Why does CableVision feel the need to create a new proprietary standard when we have a perfectly good standard already: DOCSIS [wikipedia.org], the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification. DOCSIS 2.0 offers 38mbps down and 30.72mbps up, which ought to be plenty for everybody. If it's not, get another channel and bond them together until you have enough. DOCSIS 3.0 will even handle the channel bonding FOR YOU.
Since cable providers already run fiber until the CMTS [wikipedia.org], which is usually within the last mile, why not run fiber the rest of the way or live with 38/30mbps service rather than creating a new proprietary cable modem standard?