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Originally Posted by Broadbandings

That's interesting as Comcast don't have a 15Mbit upstream product. Their tiers are, depending where you live:

6/1Mbit
8/1Mbit
8/2Mbit
16/2Mbit

And a very limited rollout of DOCSIS 3 at 50/5Mbit

With powerboost which allows a burst up to 30Mbit on downstream for the first few MB of a transfer.

just a small point, all those Comcast rates you quote above are for their old Docsis1.1 kit,(excluding the DS2.0b[pre]/3 50/5 OC) they call these new packages "Blast", they are totally seperate to any DS3 required kit and packages they may mass roll out in 2+ months or so.

and OC , theres still the rather large problem that as of Todays date , only one single company has got official "Full" Docsis3 cert even today or in the near future and these [CS] are not something Vigin media will be likely to be buying in for their customers to rent and use.

all the others are still "bronze" bonded downstreams and mandated downstream Multicast, plus 1 or is it two ? single units that are "silver" bonded upstreams and mandated upstream multicast certifyed, that one company being "Casa Systems" getting "full" cert way back in Wave 58.

Casa Systems C2200 CMTS*
Casa Systems C3200 CMTS

The C2200 CMTS won Silver qualification in Wave 56.
Source: The companies and CableLabs.

in other news OC Netgear entered the DS 2.0b (pre)/3.0 market and got Certification in Wave 60, but that was "bronze i think, due to again useing the same chipsets as the other "bronze" vendors , that being the Texas Instruments "Puma 5" DS2.0b/3 chipset, THESE Puma 5 Docsis3 chipsets CAN NOT BE firmware flash UPGRADED to the "full" DS3 spec as someone on here (or a related CF thread) said the current new DS3 kit can be, the truth is not one single one of them can be.

they just cant, as they dont use FPGA (field Programable Gate array) chips as any real pre spec vendor that intended to supply this chip spec update option would use.

the most likely VM candidate before the NetGear appeared, the ambit U10C035 cert 58 cant be flash upgraded, so that means lots of new cash required once the end users and the markets demand real DS3 bonded uploads,do you trust VM to do the right thing or go for the cheapest off the shelf pre3 kit when everyone else will be using the real deal "full" DS3 kit in 18 months time....

"Having Netgear jump into the Docsis 3.0 modem pool could apply some unit price pressure on other vendors. "Another competitor always helps to reduce costs a bit more," says Heavy Reading senior analyst Alan Breznick, noting that some MSOs have complained about the price difference between 3.0 and 2.0 cable modems.

In the first quarter of this year, 3.0 modems were costing about $80 per unit. Operators would like to see *Wideband units eventually drop below $35"
http://www.lightreading.com/document...57819&site=cdn
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*WideBand is the name the sales marketeers are still calling the Docsis2.0b pre 3 ,bronze /silver and real deal [Full]DS3 cert kit BTW.