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Originally Posted by homealone
bloomin' marketeers, it always sounds good in the meeting, because they don't invite anyone who would be critical..
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Dollar / pound signs soon take precedence over legitimate criticism in business.
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Originally Posted by tvtimes
What would the need be for keeping STM on docsis3.0 though and where have you heard this from? 
The only reason shaping takes place now is because there are too many like minded inviduals eating up vm's bandwith and affecting other peoples speeds who don't use up their connection as much. But with DOCSIS3.0 there will be bandwith contraints so should be no reason for shaping? |
You are right, with DOCSIS 3 there will still be bandwidth constraints, the modems have 4 tuners so draw on a bandwidth pool of about 200Mbit. Initially of course the uptake will be far too low for this to be 'an issue' however potentially it could become an issue.
Whether it will or not we'll see but it's not beyond the realms of possibility. The kind of people who are likely to take this service may hammer the living hell out of the service and soon chalk up some nice bandwidth bills for VM and eat the local network alive.
EDIT: Assuming a nominal max throughput of 6MB/sec, 48Mbit/s which is reasonable taking account of overheads, someone could download 15.5TB/month on the 50Mbit service. That would really be quite unpleasant for Virgin and is far from impossible considering the availability of Blu Ray / HD content ripe for downloading, burning, and selling from a plastic sheet in the high street.
We'll see!