Band(width) on the Run.(cable television industry's struggle to expand bandwidth)
Multichannel News, May, 2007 by Spangler, Todd
By Todd Spangler Cable Turns Up Capacity - As and When Needed It's no secret that cable needs to create or reclaim more bandwidth in its networks. The question is, how urgently? Operators are facing telephone company and satellite rivals that are threatening to turn up the juice on high-capacity services.
Exhibit A is DirecTV, which has promised to slot in 100 new high-definition channels later this year. Exhibit B: The FiOS fiber-to-the-home network from Verizon Communications, which the telco says could pipe 1 billion bits per second or more to a single household. Cable's engineering leaders aren't daunted. 'We're not going to hit the wall,' said Charter Communications chief technology officer Marwan Fawaz. But, he added: 'It's...
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