- From: Ted Hardie <hardie@merlot.arc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 10:35:32 -0700 (PDT)
- To: stephen f white <sfwhite@incontext.ca>
- Cc: paulle@microsoft.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Stephen White writes: > just as a datapoint, the cable modem installations in the toronto area > (which are now actual production services, not beta tests) use two-way > communication over the cable lines. they're not assymetrical. > Several of the systems being tested in the U.S. use two-way communication over cable lines, but are still bandwidth-assymetric. As I understand it, they use several frequency bands (each band being equivalent to what would deliver a standard cable channel) in the downstream portion, but only a part of one in upstream portion. The system in Toronto may,of course, be designed very differently. Ted Hardie NASA Science Internet
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