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Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]
From: Scott Helms <khelms () zcorum com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:05:02 -0500
Stephen is dead on here. In DOCSIS the downstream communication happens in one or more normal cable TV channel band, ie 6MHz channels from 54 MHz to 890MHz. The upstreams will be (in most cases) either 1.6 MHz, 3.2 MHz, or 6.4MHz wide and in the 5-42 MHz range. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 -------------------------------- http://twitter.com/kscotthelms -------------------------------- On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Stephen Satchell <list () satchell net> wrote:
On 02/27/2015 01:27 PM, Jack Bates wrote:My 2 cents. I don't design these things, but you'd think people would start realizing that static allocation is kind of limiting. Giving someone 50mb/s with 20mb/s waste is annoying when they are saturating 3mb/s the opposite direction. Wouldn't it be cool if your backup at night could use 50mb/s upstream and drop your downstream to 5mb/s because you aren't downloading anything?That's possible with multicarrier technology, such as xDSL. When you get into the data-over-cable technology, you find a completely different story -- it's a system limitation that you have an upstream channel that is less efficient than the downstream channel because the upstream channel has to be accessed by a number of sources, with access control, whereas the downstream channel is nothing more than a broadcast pipe (just like 10base-2 Ethernet) where you pick your packets out of the stream. Other technologies have their quirks, too...
Current thread:
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality, (continued)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Clayton Zekelman (Feb 28)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Mike Hammett (Feb 28)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Clayton Zekelman (Feb 28)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Michael Thomas (Feb 28)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Nick Hilliard (Feb 28)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality John Levine (Feb 27)
- Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Miles Fidelman (Feb 27)
- Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Scott Helms (Feb 27)
- Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Jack Bates (Feb 27)
- Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Stephen Satchell (Feb 27)
- Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Scott Helms (Feb 27)
- Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Jack Bates (Feb 27)
- RE: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Naslund, Steve (Feb 27)
- Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Jack Bates (Feb 27)
- RE: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Naslund, Steve (Feb 27)
- Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Miles Fidelman (Feb 27)
- Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Philip Dorr (Feb 27)
- Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Mark Tinka (Feb 27)
- Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Mike Hammett (Feb 28)
- Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] James R Cutler (Feb 28)
- Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Mike Hammett (Feb 28)