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Re: Oh how sweet of you Comcast.... Is it actually MAE, or is it delivered via DOCSIS on the HFC plant? Haven't seen a definitive answer one way or the other on this. If it's the former then it's an incredible deal. I would not personally be willing to pay for it, but you'd still be hard pressed to top it for value. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | From the thread in the Comcast forum, it's MAE. |
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| Are they charging for build out costs? If they aren't it's an even sweeter dealer... |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | 500 bucks |
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said by iansltx:From the thread in the Comcast forum, it's MAE.
Indeed. $300 for something that normally would cost $2000 and up would be quite the deal.
But this isn't quite the same thing as that $2000 Metro Ethernet. The $2000 service would come with a dedicated level of service, with uptime and bandwidth guarantees, and rebates for not meeting SLAs.
It's not that different from FiOS, except that they'll use Metro Ethernet rather than GPON to deliver it. Remove the contention on the coax channels, but still have contention higher up.
Not that this is such a bad thing. It's not like Verizon will allow you to pay $500 to string fiber to your home. If they've given up on FiOS deployment in your area, then you're just out of luck unless you want to pay thousands for a true Metro Ethernet connection.
Verizon tried "build it and they will come," and then discovered that not enough customers came. Comcast is now trying "Pay us and we'll come build it, but otherwise we won't waste the money." |
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