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It's not the backhaul that is the chokepoint. It's local nodes near your house. The one you share with 50-100 homes or more.
by rhino369 11y ago
It's not the backhaul that is the chokepoint. It's local nodes near your house. The one you share with 50-100 homes or more.
- bbayles 11y agoQuite so. Usually the same in mobile networks, but sometimes backhaul is a limitation there still.
- AnthonyMouse 11y agoA Netflix "ultra HD" stream requires 25Mbps. Even if all 100 homes are simultaneously streaming ultra HD, that's 2.5Gbps in total. Coax can handle that easily with modern equipment. Obviously they could be using very old equipment that can't, but whose fault is that?
- rhino369 11y agoCable companies can't replace network hardware every three years. It's just not profitable. Cable systems were upgraded to broadband 2000-2005. 10-15 year replacement is short in the telecom industry. It's not surprising that new entrants into the market can give much higher speed. If you demand upgrades every 5 years that is going to increase costs considerably. Also a large amount of coax spectrum is for video tv service. The real curiousity is why Verizon fios can't deliver near 1gbps. It's already has a fiberoptic network. I'm guessing it's the hardware at the nodes.