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Originally Posted by Welshchris
it will to the 20mb and 50mb users, not to the 10mb users tho.
50mb users will be put onto docsis 3 and 20mb will start using docsis 2.0 so im told by an engineer who works for Virgin.
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Your engineer is not quite there, all customers will in time be load balanced between the legacy platform and the next generation CMTS, and all tiers will be moved onto DOCSIS 2 with the 50Mbit on DOCSIS 3.
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Originally Posted by OLDo
With the ongoing rollout of 50Mbit broadband, and the move from DOCSIS 1.x to 3, what effect, if any, will this have on network stability? Sure, the increased downstream bandwidth will be nice to have when required, however my main interest is the increased upstream bandwidth, and QoS features that v3.0 (well.. v1.1 and above for that matter) can facilitate
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Thusfar the move to DOCSIS 3 has done nothing, areas are already running on 1.1 upstreams (16QAM 3.2MHz width).
Virgin are apparently shortly to release ATDMA upstreams (max upstream moves from 8.8Mbit to 26.4Mbit usable bandwidth).
What it will mean for the services themselves, we'll see. Virgin may just take the additional downstream and upstream bandwidth and use it to pack more customers onto less hardware.