Comments on: Cablevision Pushes The Bandwidth Pedal.

By: Is Verizon FiOS Putting The Hurt on Cable?

Is Verizon FiOS Putting The Hurt on Cable? — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:41:21 +0000

[...] which competes with Verizon in 30 percent of its footprint and has been aggressive about countering FiOS speeds, has seen a 1.5 percent drop in penetration [...]

By: Don

Don — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:30:54 +0000

I work for cablevision and yes we do offer the Ultra service but its a bit pricy... I only have to pay 50$ a month for it (when it gets to my area shortly)

For those of you who would like to get the ultra this service should be available in MANY areas in the northeast as soon as this time next year. It costs more money to create the access points for this service then it would cost for 20 customers to pay the 125$ a month, for an entire year. But with how fast we are growing it will be no time at all for us to move on to other cities across the nation.

By: - Comcast to Twin Cites: Want WideBand? Gonna Cost You Big

- Comcast to Twin Cites: Want WideBand? Gonna Cost You Big — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:54:18 +0000

[...] 5 megabits/second upstream capability is based on DOCSIS 3.0 technology and will cost $150 a month. Cablevision, Surewest and Verizon have been offering similar high-speed yet very expensive connections for a [...]

By: Comcast to Twin Cites: Want WideBand? Gonna Cost You Big - GigaOM

Comcast to Twin Cites: Want WideBand? Gonna Cost You Big - GigaOM — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:00:04 +0000

By: GigaOM » In Sacramento, 50 mbps broadband on tap

GigaOM » In Sacramento, 50 mbps broadband on tap — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:08:10 +0000

[...] make that the fastest synchronous residential connection – for there are some parts of the country where Cablevision and Verizon FiOS have similar asynchronous speed [...]

By: Om Malik on Broadband : » Need For Speed… How Real?

Om Malik on Broadband : » Need For Speed… How Real? — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 07:39:12 +0000

[...] BellSouth is now selling a 6 Mbps while Verizon is offering a $179 a month 30 Mbps plan. Comcast customers can now dream of between 6-and-8 Mbps speeds, while Cablevision has offered 50 Mbps service for an undisclosed amount of money. [...]

By: Om Malik on Broadband : » The Truth About Ala Carte Cable

Om Malik on Broadband : » The Truth About Ala Carte Cable — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 07:12:10 +0000

[...] Here is why: Over past few years cable operators have managed to grow their top-line and EBITDA, while the Bell operators have been slowly sliding south. Since cable operators have finished their major network upgrades, for next couple of years they can afford to spend money only on projects that can directly generate revenue. They can also be much more aggressive in new service offerings such as premium tier broadband, or VoIP services. Those two offerings can give phone companies a serious migraine. [...]

By: Permanent4

Permanent4 — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:42:23 +0000

Will the current Internet as it’s made now actually let you make a true 50 Mbps connection with another computer system? I have 5 Mbps through my cable modem, but I rarely ever download any single file at speeds faster than 1 Mbps, if that. Or is this just about making multiple connections through the same pipe?

By: Frank Coluccio

Frank Coluccio — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:20:00 +0000

[But] Ain’t competition wonderful? The game of chicken has finally been declared, anew. Cable has returned Verizon’s serve and put the ball right back in FTTP court. Both providers know by now, of course, that scant few users will have cause, or an application that can, push those links to the limits being quoted. At least not anytime soon. At present, the need for super high speeds over cable doesn’t exist to the same extent that it does for a SBC’s FTTN platform, or a BLS’ intermediate-range FTTC, say, because the cable operator has the advantage of having its video supported over the analog portion of the HFC plant. So, the CM data rate is independent of video. FTTN and FTTC (even PON-based FTTH), on the other hand, must support all three of the so-called “plays”, i.e., Voice, Video, AND high-speed Internet access, over the same 12-to-24 Mb/s (depending on distance), without the benefit of video being supported by a separate, analog cable plant. So, 50 Mb/s down of cable modem is not the same as 50 Mb/s down of FTTx.

from: http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=21864936

ps – Actually, Om, LI isn’t such a bad place to live “on”, even without the soon-to-be IMS-infected, “fat-wasteband” pipes – w/thanks to Fred Goldstein who coined the phrase- supplied by the incumbents ;)

By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 20:27:17 +0000

Axel, if you are offering a “dumb pipe” service there is no need for traditional QOS. You just need to implement some basic fairness algorithms to keep high usage users from clogging the pipe, as it were. Throw some packet prioritization on top of that and your own VoIP is going to outperform Vonage et al, justifying a small price premium. Remember, this is packets, not the circuit switched world.

By: Axel

Axel — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 10:05:17 +0000

Once in a while you hear something from cableco’s using Narad Networks’technology. Can someone explain how their technology works and, more interesting, which active components in the network should be replaced and what is the maximum looplenght? Higher frequencies are vulnerable to noise. Finally, I’d like to know how they realize QoS in these shared networks (time division multiplexing?

By: dinesh

dinesh — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 05:52:24 +0000

I used to have Verizon FiOS when I was in Lewisville, TX and it was F%#%#%#%$ awesome!! Vonage + FiOS was unbeatable.

Alas, moving to the Northwest, to an area where Qwest is a monopoly and the cable players haven't made in-roads, I have to suffer through their dial-speed like 1.5 MBps that works at a max of 184kbps any given day.

By: Howard Sebastian

Howard Sebastian — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:47:09 +0000

Between you and Tom Keating – http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/technology-and-science/cablevision-high-speed-internet-upgrade.asp – who also wrote about the Cablevision story this morning, you’re both making me want to move to the Northeast to be in CV’s footprint! So make that the three of us!

By: nwistheone

nwistheone — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:30:36 +0000

Only $15 extra for 50Mbps up/down? Insane. It’d be great if something like this was available in my area.