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Article: BREAKING the TRAFFIC JAM.(new technologies for the cable modem market)
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- February 1, 2000
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New solutions and approaches allow operators to bust through signal transport gridlock
The current focus on how much "F" and how much "C" should be in today's HFC networks is a subject that is increasingly up for debate as cable operators struggle to stay one step ahead of the relentless demand for bandwidth. But while many industry observers have been documenting fiber's progressive--and astounding--march toward the home, others have realized there's another crying need to build more bandwidth in the metropolitan backbone as well.
Driven by the evolution of metropolitan markets being serviced by several cable operators to today's model where ...