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Peter Piper --
You remain as much a mystery as BC's roll-out plans and I figure one day I'll have it all figured out.
As for Canada, I talked to the head of ADSL marketing at Telus today --- that's the main telco for Alberta --- and he said all the Stentor companies share trial data. I didn't think to ask if they could actually deploy a technology based on another telco's results, but it might be worth another call to find out. I did ask if he'd seen the results of BCTEL's trials and he said he had. As far as I know, Telus is using NetSpeed's CAP, so it's no wonder he said the upstream speeds wouldn't be robust enough for business deployment. He said under certain conditions they were only getting 16Kbps on the upstream. Is that because the NetSpeed solution is shared bandwidth, or is it because the lines were impaired?
One other thing he mentioned was the need to have compression standards because compressed data couldn't be decompressed if the algorithms weren't the same. I'm skating on thin ice here, so I hope someone else can help out. We'd been discussing line codes and he said that wasn't nearly as critical as this. I called Amati and was told CAP's slower speeds required compression whereas the higher speeds didn't. So, I guess my question is this, why would a telco deploy the slower speeds if it required another standards battle? Not to mention the other drawbacks????
Okay, one last concern. Referring now to the bundle issue. I'm told DMT can survive anything, but that CAP can't survive the proximity of a T1 line. Does CAP also have a problem with DMT in the bundle?
I know I'm trying to ring the bell backwards, but there are lots of questions I've not had answered to my satisfaction.
Oops, one other matter. Could someone read this CRTC report and tell me what technology is being deployed in London and Repentigny? Is HFC already deployed to the neighborhood? curb? building? Is copper involved at any point? What does it mean to layer one technology on top of another? The descriptions sound strangely like HKT, so I'm wondering if VDSL is involved.
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Thanks in advance for the help.
Oh, about ADI's chips, I think you're right they don't have the two-chip solution yet. As for the license, no one's breaking any speed records getting the word out.
Cheers!
Pat |
