On 12/30/24 14:09, Sean Donelan wrote:
Uhm. Do you realize that cable is asymetric, with less than 35 Mbps upstream, and marketing bandwidth numbers aren't real? Mega-mansions like the Gates estate are like small hotels, and sometimes have parties (charity events) with over 200 people, and corporate events with over 500 people. The "home" was small enterprise in itself.
To be fair to the HFC operators, if you've got a high split deployed, 100+Mbps upstream numbers are now realistic and upwards of 500Mbps is possible, though I have yet to see a practical deployment do it. Likewise, if you've got lots of usable RF bandwidth and are willing to pay to pack DOCSIS 4 carriers in there, you can get like 20Gbps per node of usable downstream bandwidth. Even a fairly large node can statistically deliver multi-gig resi service at that point. I've heard some of the cable MSOs are looking to retire linear OpenCable type video and move to multicast over DOCSIS to make the latter happen. The former is a lot harder obviously and requires field work including potentially changing out things at or even inside customer prem. But yeah, I'm of the impression that anything we'd colloquially call a "mansion" (which is much bigger than what the real estate agents would call one) is probably going to have dedicated service of some sort. The same goes for larger hotels, though smaller (and low-rate) ones usually just go with small-business consumer access mechanisms. -- Brandon Martin