At 4:21 PM -0800 2/28/2009, Gus wrote: > >I thought that DOCSIS 3.0 was supose to be backward compatible with >DOCSIS 2.0 both at the Cable Modem and the Cable modem termination >system.??
It is, to a point. Maintaining a "mixed" network is an expensive hassle at many different levels - physical, engineering, support, management, and legal. It's ok for transition, but the goal is a uniform network that offers the same services / reliability / features to all customers. Customers get angry if you cannot provide *all* your advertised services to them! The norm is to just swap out the modems, as they upgrade each leg, to provide a nice smooth fast transition. The problem is what to do with customers that own their own equipment. They made that choice, *knowing* the requirements of the network as they're spelled out in the ToS. It takes extra work to support so many different types of modems. Is it worth keeping a lower-revenue customer that's going to drag down the network because of their older-protocol equipment? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
