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To: rich evans who wrote (6310)	1/25/2000 5:10:00 PM
From: DenverTechie	Respond to of 12823

The Scientific-Atlanta upgrade for Charter is definitely HFC, not FTTC. It's the newest standard in the cable industry to upgrade to 870 MHz of bandwidth. The use of taps, passives, RF amplifiers, and Continuum headend gear provides the definition of a classic HFC architecture. Many new upgrades today are being done today to 870 instead of 750 MHz, especially if there is no cost premium for the higher bandwidth equipment and amplifier spacing can be maintained where the 750 MHz equipment was going to be placed. Using DWDM and bdr technology expands the bandwidth in the backbone portions of the network and enables narrowcast of multiple services per fiber node. But make no mistake, this is undeniably an HFC network, not FTTC, although a fairly sophisticated HFC at that!