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To: E. Davies who wrote (10891)6/10/1999 12:58:00 AM
From: ahhaha  Read Replies (2) of 29970
 
No optics are involved until the headend->data center connections.

The solution is hybrid. There is fiber from the headend out to the node. From the node to drop its coax.

I dont know if the wires in the local loop need to be replaced when upgrading the architecture to HFC

It depends on what condition the coax is in. Mostly the stuff hanging is ok. When I use the term local loop I include node up to the headend for the simple reason that the node to the data port is not a loop even though it may contain the reverse stream.

You cannot put upstream and downstream on the *same* frequency. Nor can you put upstream in a frequency range used for downstream.

You can't even put it on the same channel because you'll get collisions, but there are technologies which solve this both in pure optics and in ethernet. They aren't currently being used, but they will be. Upstream is placed next to a frequency range, the frequency range of tv channels.

Upstream can be placed *below* normal TV spectrum and *above* it as well that current DOCSIS modems only use frequencies *below*
the normal TV spectrum.

Correct (ahhaha)

Upstream bandwidth is currently pretty limited and lots of uses are planned for it.

If ISPs are concerned money talks here and planned use will take a back seat and have to wait for superior technologies.

I dont think you can easily say that there is enough to support 10 ISP's.

I can and I did and there is.

Even coming up with 10 downstream channels would be a major organizational headache,

Very true and why the Portland "victory" is at best Pyrrhic.
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