Think your cable connection’s fast? Arris thinks it can be plenty faster. At today’s NCTA Cable Show in Chicago, the corporate will demo a brand new system which can support download speeds of four.5Gbps, and upload rates of 575Mbps. To succeed in this, Arris devoted more of its DOCSIS 3.0 cable channels to broadband (128 downstream, 24 upstream), sourced through a C4 cable module (pictured at the left). Needless to say, this may leave less space for conventional TV channels, but we’re guessing the accelerated streaming speeds would greater than make up for it. Unfortunately, the prototype continues to be within the proof-of-concept phase, so it can be a long time before you reap its benefits. Head past the break for the whole PR.
SUWANEE, Ga., June 13, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
ARRIS (Nasdaq: ARRS)todayannounced that it’ll demonstrate two DOCSIS “firsts” at NCTA 2011, in Chicago, June 14-16, 2011.
The demonstration will show real file transfer throughput of four.5 Gbps of DOCSIS downstream traffic being transmitted over 128 DOCSIS downstream channels right into a single Fiber Node. Within the demo, an ARRIS C4 CMTS might be configured using four newly-released 32 Downstream Cable Access Modules (32D CAMs) to source the 128 DOCSIS downstream channels into the Fiber Node. The Bandwidth Monitor will illustrate that the full downstream bandwidth sent into the Fiber Node remains fairly constant at about 4.5 Gbps. These record-breaking bandwidth levels can be required for enormous-scale IP Video systems sooner or later.
The demo will even show an explanation-of-concept implementation of a 5-200 MHz high-split DOCSIS upstream system with 575 Mbps of DOCSIS upstream bandwidth being transmitted over 24 DOCSIS Upstream channels out of a single Fiber Node. This demo uses a single ARRIS 24U CAM to receive the high-split 5-200 MHz upstream spectrum from a Fiber Node. This record-breaking upstream bandwidth is meant to assist the industry explore the long run frequency allocations of HFC to give protection to its value and viability for a few years to return.
The demonstration is designed to demonstrate three key points:
* to expose the incredible capacity of the present HFC network
* as an example the flexibility of the ARRIS C4 CMTS to capitalize at the HFC network’s immense capacity
* to display the latent flexibility of future DOCSIS CMTS systems that may capitalize at the HFC network’s upstream capacity as well
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