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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
VM will (to my mind obviously) programme things so that every area is up to the same standard. Indeed if it's to have 100/200/300 tiers, then the two higher tiers will need the 64QAM and additional channels. Whether > 2 channels will be provisioned to the 100 meg tier, I can't say.
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Every tier will be provisioned the same so all DOCSIS 3 devices regardless of their service tier will receive as many upstream channels as are available in the group.
Modems that only have 8x4 cable front ends in areas with >8 channels will lock to the 8 channels they are offered, while 24x8 or 32x8 modems will take the whole group. This is done on a per-CPE basis to load balance channels - note that in the case of those in areas with 12 downstreams already some top out at 291MHz and go right down to 235MHz while others are on the same channels they were when the area was running on 8, 267MHz - 323MHz, and yet others run on 251MHz - 307MHz.
Load balanced across in 3 groups of channels 1-8, 3-10 and 5-12. Channels have to run consecutively so this is the best they can do.