Too bad you had to run off like that, while you were on a roll. I appreciate the tutorial, and see where I must go back and hit the books. When you return, please don't forget my questions re security, if you would, as your views would be instructive there, and at the very least provide substance for a good discussion.
Getting back to the diagram, it's a block diagram, and as such I tend to view it by reading between the lines and through the boxes, as it were, and allow the renderer a degree of license. That's especially easy to do for me in this case, since I am not an expert on this subject, rather, I treat it based on the high-level-discussion kind of information that I possess. I didn't stop to think, for example, that the 750M to 1G range was a "requirement" for DAVIC. Nor was I sensitive to directionality issues.
When the DAVIC framework was first spelled out, about two Internet Centuries ago, I thought that it was one of those hair-brained pie-in-the sky attempts by a group of too many vendors to do multimedia in the future. Much like I have a tendency at times to regard the RBOCs' current framework of Full Service Area Networks (FSANs), today. With the latter, by the way, being said to be able to support DAVIC. But FSAN is an entirely different story, since that model depends very heavily on ATM and DSLs (VDSL) in the ultimate deployment, and not CableModem.
You've given me ample reasons here to do some read-up on DAVIC and DOCSIS once again, perhaps this time more seriously. Thanks.
Regards, Frank Coluccio |
