I put two bits of information together for that sentence. I defo remember you saying 3.1 will be modem only and when I get some time later I'll have a quick search and see if I can find it. I strung the 2017 bit into it because that has been mentioned in numerous discussions and threads before that that is when VM is going start using it. I say using it that tan rolling out because like you have said, it may be a bit premature. I am assuming that there won't be a commercial rollout and they will perhaps be starting to do some tests with it.
Edit: I think I am half way there but it still isn't what I remember reading. I am sure it was back at the beginning of the year so I'll keep searching
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
I would go a bit further and expect a gigabit DOCSIS 3.1 service with the price tag and contract to cover the new modem to match.
Those modems can draw all the DOCSIS 3.0 capacity being used for the existing services along with at least one 96 MHz OFDM block all for them.
I see no value in DOCSIS 3.1 modems with tiers that are a half-way house. As long as uptake isn't high 750Mb can be done with 24 channels via DOCSIS 3.0. It would feel like a bit of a disappointment, a damp squib, to deploy 3.1 for anything less than a gig.
Although as a disclaimer people may really, really not like the upstream speed that will initially come with such a service. The current DOCSIS 3.1 deployments are using DOCSIS 3.0 upstreams, so 1000Mb down, 35 - 50Mb up ahoy.
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