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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Fibre or coax. It's all the same in capacity terms.
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Not so much, an HFC network is limited by the capacity of the RF amplifiers in the field and the fibre optic nodes, an FTTP network has a far, far greater RF bandwidth. With an HFC you're talking hundreds of MHz, with FTTP 10s of GHz.
10Gb PON is available with 2.5Gb upstream and can even be run alongside standard 2.4Gb down, 1.2Gb up PON for legacy CPE that don't do 10G-PON.
EDIT: Just to add to the cheek a 10G-PON network not only could run alongside a GPON network, an operator could also put a full spectrum of RFOG QAM multiplexes down the piece of string for TV if they had legacy CATV CPE, an entire HFC network of RF running alongside a 10Gb/2.5Gb and a 2.4Gb/1.2Gb broadband IP link to each node.