[LINK] 160Mbps downloads move closer for US cable customers

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160Mbps downloads move closer for US cable customers

By Eric Bangeman | Published: May 08, 2007 - 11:37PM CT

The National Cable & Telecommunications Association is holding its
annual convention in Las Vegas (where else?) and this year,
super-high-speed cable service is finally moving into the limelight.
Announcements from hardware providers like Motorola and Texas
Instruments suggest that we're finally moving closer to the promised
land of DOCSIS 3.0.
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    * Pre-DOCSIS 3.0 rollout in South Korea hits 100Mbps

DOCSIS 3.0 offers two immediate benefits over what cable ISP
subscribers are currently stuck with (DOCSIS 1.1): faster speeds and
support for IPv6. The technology has the potential to bump download
speeds to 160Mbps and upload speeds to 120Mbps, although that
bandwidth will be divided up between households attached to a single
node.

In the first widespread deployment of pre-DOCSIS 3.0 hardware, a South
Korean cable ISP was able to pump 100Mbps service into the homes of
its subscribers. This week's announcements provide hope that the kind
of speeds seen in Korea will be making their way across the Pacific
before too long.



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