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is it upstream and downstream channel bonding for greater speeds for DOCSIS 3.0 deployment ??
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Broadly speaking that seems to be the idea - the kit tunes to multiple upstream and downstream channels (and that's going to be fun to monitor) and bonds them together into two huge virtual channels. Apart from anything else it mitigates the effect of interference on particular upstream frequencies and it should see an end to 'move my upstream pleeeeeeeeease' type posts, as you'll already be on four upstreams...
This is all rather hypothetical at this stage, I literally heard about it internally a few days before it went public, so don't expect me to know much more than you ;0
200mbps network cards? Easy peasy, most modern PCs will have gigabit ethernet cards, which is the only way to get true 100mbps performance at the moment - my box which I built in 2003 has two of them.