Cable's 'Wideband' Card.(Comcast gives demonstration on cable modems )
Multichannel News, May, 2007
By Todd Spangler & Mike Farrell Comcast's Roberts: Next-Gen Modems Will Trump Telcos Las Vegas- Comcast CEO Brian Roberts gave a hands-on demonstration of the next generation of ultra-fast, 'wideband' cable modems at The Cable Show '07 here last Tuesday. The technology is more than 25 times as fast as the operator's current standard broadband package and, Roberts said, it will let cable jump ahead of phone companies in the next few years.
In the demo, Roberts started to download a 300-Megabyte Comcast TV commercial using a standard cable modem, which would have taken 16 minutes. With a wideband modem, based on Cable Labs' Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification 3.0, the download took a mere 17 seconds. 'With wideband, we're...
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