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Originally Posted by KingDaveRa
Oh now I see.
Well I'd imagine those line cards are pretty pricey. I know most Cisco blades for their big switches are usually five figures, so they probably saved a lot of money. Plus all the extra chassis and infrastructure they wouldn't have had to buy. From a purely commercial standpoint, I can see why they did it.
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Me too, shame as I alluded to back in 2008 it's caused issues with upstream congestion now. Someone forgot the stop off in between DOCSIS 1 and DOCSIS 3, the upstream increasing DOCSIS 2, and just bunged DOCSIS 3 kit either end of a load of networks that were only really DOCSIS 1 ready.
Fine until too many modems got onto the DOCSIS 3 platform and killed the single DOCSIS 1.1 upstream channel available to each node, then BT were rude enough to start rolling out 10Mbps upstreams which necessitates DOCSIS 2 upstream to compete with so thanks to that commercial decision it's now catch up time both in terms of present capacity requirements and future ones.