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In addition, the cable based systems have to share the bandwidth available with TV and with the increase in HD channels this leaves little room for broadband.

In my view, it is just too easy to add new punters to the HFC network. In addition, the ability to increase a customer’s speed by a simple configuration change makes it all too easy to have the contention ratio increase on a cable segment to the detriment of all.

As already mentioned, the shared nature of the HFC and the requirement for multiple access onto the same cable by many modems leads to problems with packet jitter.