[LINK] Is it true??? HFC can carry 100MBS ...

[Scott Howard]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com> wrote:

> Can HFC carry 100 Mbps and later 1 Gbps? That's what Malcolm Turnbull just
> said on ABC radio. Can it do it without degradation or is it still a shared
> delivery system that dies the more people you put on it?
>

Yes.  Very much yes.

I currently have HFC with Comcast.  I have their slowest plan they offer
for straight Internet, which is ~50MBps, but I can easily upgrade to
~300Mbps (in some areas ~500Mbps), and they have already announced that
they will be offering 1Gbps in some areas later this year.

  Scott