Cablevision and Charter gear up for DOCSIS 3.0 rollouts

Comcast nabbed the first US DOCSIS 3.0 deployment award by pushing the technology out to select Minnesota residents in April, but both Charter and Cablevision are making sure to not fall too far behind. During its most recent quarter earnings call, Cablevision COO Tom Rutledge noted that DOCSIS 3.0 would be "operational this year," with around 20% of its footprint going live in 2008 and 100% to be covered by mid-2010. Charter is also poised to introduce the lightning fast broadband capabilities to its loyal customers, with CEO Neil Smit affirming that it would be launched in at least some markets "later in the year." We'd like to think this means we can all look forward to 100Mbit/sec cable internet in the not-too-distant future, but who knows how long it'll take those other MSO's to join the bandwagon.

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[ultrabot Posted Aug 7th 2008 11:01PM]

i wonder how disproportionate the upload rates will be on a 100mb plan.

[The Punisher Posted Aug 8th 2008 1:05AM]

I'll believe the speeds when I see them. I have TWC, and lately around peak hours the internet is crawling. Plus I keep reading articles on Engadget that cables network was never really meant for 2 way communication, thus the bandwidth caps.

Although if they can actually offer these speeds, it wouldn't make much sense to have caps, does it?

[tamahome02000 Posted Aug 8th 2008 9:31AM]

What the heck is DOCSIS??

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 8th 2008 10:07AM]

Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) is an international standard developed by CableLabs and contributing companies that include: ARRIS, BigBand Networks, Broadcom, Cisco, Conexant, Correlant, Harmonic, Intel, Motorola, Netgear, Terayon, and Texas Instruments. DOCSIS defines the communications and operation support interface requirements for a data over cable system. It permits the addition of high-speed data transfer to an existing Cable TV (CATV) system.


Great, so soon we'll be able to get to those bandwidth caps just that much faster!

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 8th 2008 10:19AM]

Your post said:
Cablevision COO Tom Rutledge noted that DOCSIS 3.0 would be "operational this year," with around 20% of its footprint going live in 2008 and 100% to be covered by mid-2010.

The part about the % of footprint going live was for Comcast, not Cablevision. Re read the linked story. Cablevision has not committed to marketing DOCSIS 3.0 yet. Rutledge said that even if they don't offer the higher speeds it still makes your network better.