According to our local paper, Comcast is expanding its network into existing Service Electric Cablevision territory throughout 2022-2023.
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Any idea on what Comcast will use for a greenfield build? Will it be FTTH? The existing provider is a midsplit system using Arris OM6000 nodes and a mix of Magnavox, Motorola amplifier housings with internals recently upgraded to 1 GHz. Our flagship tier is 1500/150 mbps.
Will Comcast come along with a system more capeable than that, since it’s a brand new build? Or will they just chug along and connect it to their neighboring 750 MHz Scientific Atlanta based HFC plant (installed in the mid to late 90’s)?
I have no issues with my existing provider but I am excited for choice. This will be a 3rd choice in some areas (Windstream kinetic FTTH is in some communities mentioned in the article).
Also if they would choose to do EPON (they have an article for that type of build here: https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/all-ip-xfinity-fiber-only-network )… with the extra bandwidth would they still overcompress all HD down to 720p? Or for networks like EPON that have the bandwidth, could they deliver 1080?
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