Questions surrounding
cable's ability to keep up with the
big boys have been
circulating for what feels like ages, but an intriguing new product from the labs of Ambit Broadband has some fairly substantial numbers to go along with it. The firm's Channel Bonding cable model will be available exclusively to subscribers of Hanaro, and by partnering with Netwave, the device will enable "triple play service" consisting of
VoIP,
IPTV, and high-speed internet. More interesting, however, is the reported maximum speeds that this thing can handle, as it boasts the "capability to bond three downstream channels to enable a maximum 144Mbps downstream and up to 30Mbps upstream." The modem also supports the usual interfaces such as gigabit Ethernet and USB 2.0, but it supposedly comes pre-ready for DOCSIS 3.0 and IPv6 -- you know, the protocols used to shatter the
Internet2 transmission record. While it may all sound a bit
sensational at the moment, the truth shall be unveiled when Ambit / Netwave delivers 150,000 of said modems to Hanaro "during Q2" of this year.
posted Apr 26th 2007 8:25AM
It that hanora company here in the states or is that in Asia somewhere.
I want this so I can enjoy the rappage comca$t does to me each month atleast then it would be worth it
Don't buy it! This is a pre-docsis 3.0 device. Wait for the approved docsis 3.0 modems.
Cable will never be able to keep up. Why? Because they don't guarantee bandwidth. No business wants something capable of 5Mb that will drop to 500k when the system is under high load. They also don't want something that, when service is interrupted, takes more than 4 hrs to fix. That shit may fly for home users but when missed emails means lost revenue no one is willing to take the chance.
Now give me a 5Mb bandwidth-guaranteed cable connection with great support at a good price and I'll be on board. Otherwise you can find me here in the office park crying every month when I write a $600 check for 1.44Mb of bandwidth.
This Sharing Bandwidth argument is complete crap. DSL vs Cable (Oh.. cable is shared). Guess what people... The whole internet is a "shared system". It's all about how big the "tubes" are to your provider and how they are distributed.
I agree that Verizon has a huge backbone and will most likely have more bandwidth available.
Well how much bandwidth does someone really need to do legitment work? I have a 20MB fiber connection which is guarentee, unlike cable, but even then i dont see much of a diff from my old 20MB cable connection, yea during peek time, it drops to 5MB, big deal, 5MB is more than u need to run any webservice you may have out of a home. Unless u r illegally serving something.
still on 2mbps. never seen more than 1mbps in actual use. I haven't heard one thing about any competition or upgrade coming to my city at any time. ever. My only hope for more is wireless, either wimax or evdo or something. 2 million people in this area and its all ghetto.
People don't seem to understand that wide area networks like the internet and ISP networks work through statistical multiplexing, which states that not everyone needs all the bandwidth they are alloted constantly. Without this, it would be impossible to aggregate traffic upstream without 10GBps links everywhere. Stop complaining.
Heres a good comparison:
Dedicated lines are usually just virtual circuits over ATM or frame relay, with a committed information rate for your service level. Any traffic over the CIR gets a CLP/DE bit set on each cell/frame, called the Discard bit, which means any traffic with a DE bit set is excess and might be discarded under load, but under low usage you might get far over the CIR, which is somewhat how cable and dsl work, they just dont publicly state what your CIR is, they do however tell you what the physical line clock rate is set for, but that doesn't equate to end-to-end traffic bandwidth.
To put it in relative terms, a DSL or cable modem might be clocked up to 5Mbps, but it might have a CIR of around 50KBps, with a DE bit set on all traffic over that rate, and most of the time all your traffic would get through, but under load you will get less because thats how much the physical pipe to the rest of the network has available, giving you a much more equal bandwidth compared to other users on the same local node.
If we were to allocate real bandwidth to each user, even the local SONET link from your neighborhood to the central office would need to be a 10GBps link, which isn't likely to happen, or your cable service would cost well over what it does now.
Oh woohoo, now I can download my monthly limit of 10mb in 30 seconds. Whatever will I do with it for the rest of the month?
hahahaha
Cable garbage.
Channel bonding is coming. No it won't be a promised speed, but it'll be much faster than it is today. Now the cable companies need to get everyone onto switched digital cable so they only need to have 1 or 2 TV channels and the rest can be dedicated to super high speed internet.
And as far as the comment about DOCSIS 3.0 - its as good as approved, and guess what, there is /no/ cable modem that uses all of the DOCSIS 1.0, 1.0 or even 2.0 RFCs. Its just close enough to work. But I'll wait for the Moto CB CM MTA, cause well - I've never had good luck with an Ambit modem.
Hey, I'm on Bt Broadband (ADSL) (I live in the UK) and when i first logged on i got 8 meg, now i'm down to 5.5 meg. You Americans should really get faster speed BEFORE going to super fast.