Ira I got it from the Yahoo! TERN broad from a poster that got it from the CMTO board---the feeling on the board it appears is that AT WORST it could present a buying opportunity .I have no opinion as I am not at all qualified to give one in this area. Here is
a copy and paste of the post.
DOCSIS 1.2 halted by cable labs!
by: aware_8
1314 of 1349
If what the cable labs says below is true, and it is also true that TERN will not offer a DOCSIS 1.0 modem
for testing then TERN may be in trouble. If nothing else they have just lost their technological advantage. Not
only is DOCSIS 1.2 halted, TERN's CDMA technology may be scrapped al together for OFDM
technology.
This article was taken from a post on the CMTO board.
JULY 1999 HIGHLIGHTS
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Cable Datacom News Perspectives
The Cable Open Access Charade
Both sides in the cable open access debate deserve a thrashing for their recent antics. America Online's
high-priced lobbying effort with federal, state, and local municipalities is misguided, focusing far more on its
business interests than on the consumers it claims to represent. Of course, in principle, the world's largest ISP
calling for any form of government Internet regulation is shameful.
Conversely, the assertion by @Home and its cable affiliates that creating a scaleable provisioning platform for
multiple ISPs is a technical impossibility, is false. Working with Cisco, the leading supplier of DOCSIS
headend equipment, Le Groupe Videotron will test an open cable Internet architecture by September in
Montreal.
Despite the current protests by MSOs, we believe open access will ultimately occur for a simple reason: it is
in their best interest.
This is particularly true with AT&T. Ma Bell is primarily buying TCI and MediaOne to offer competitive local
telephone services. Indeed, AT&T's pro forma financial forecast for 2004 projects telephony revenues to
outpace those for Internet services by a four-to-one margin. At the end of the day, ISPs, including AOL, are
valuable marketing partners who can help move subscribers onto AT&T's broadband network. Once
connected, those cable ISP customers can quickly be sold AT&T local and long-distance phone services, a
market-driven win-win proposition.
The challenge for AT&T and other MSOs is to define and implement a responsible open ISP architecture and
business model that best protects their interests, because if the FCC is forced to intervene, the terms will
certainly be far less favorable.
The Demise of DOCSIS 1.2?
Facing heat from vendors and operators that have struggled simply to rollout DOCSIS 1.0 products in
volume, CableLabs has put plans for adding an advanced PHY to the DOCSIS standard on the back burner.
Commonly referred to as DOCSIS 1.2, this next-generation spec was to include Terayon's S-CDMA
technology, as well as Broadcom's proposed frequency-agile TDMA solution. CableLabs has asked vendors
to take their time and also evaluate other advanced PHY options, such as orthogonal frequency division
multiplexing (OFDM), intentionally slowing the DOCSIS 1.2 development timeline.
CableLabs' rationale for the DOCSIS 1.2 slow down is that the benefits of an advanced PHY do not
outweigh the damages of market confusion created by unreasonably rapid standards evolution. The last thing
MSOs want to hear from consumers is "why bother buying a DOCSIS 1.0 or 1.1 modem when 1.2 is
coming?" It is not an untenable position.
Posted: 07/07/1999 06:13 pm EDT as a reply to: Msg 1313 by JAMESCLANE
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