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Originally Posted by kwikbreaks
I guess it all depends at what level you are measuring. The 200Mbps is at the node level (or even sub node? - depends on definitions) and the modems served will be in the low (hopefully very low) hundreds. You could have a completely borked node yet the overall CMTS (which I think serve several thousand modems) could be at a tiny overall utilisation level.
That is a couple of torrent freaks nearby may wipe out your street but they will have no impact at all on the overall district. This is why cable is more susceptible to heavy usage than xDSL where the contention point is thousands of users on far fatter pipes.
Unless of course (as is often the case) I've got it all wrong.
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Thats possible as I understand it.
eg. leics only had 1 ubr covering the entire city so that ubr would be serving several nodes at the very least. The situation described probably does exist in some areas and makes a mockery of what VM are doing since clearly things can be balanced better but are not.