Media executives were "wowed" by the new generation of modems in the pipeline at "The Cable Show" where they watched data being downloaded at speeds of 150 megabits per second, which is about 25 times quicker than today's regular modems.
The technology is called DOCSIS 3.0 or "channel bonding," which instead of using one TV channel to transmit data, it uses four.
Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) Chief Executive Brian Roberts said that it should be avaiable in a couple of years and will cost close to what modems today cost.
This is a response to FiOS, a TV and Internet service from Verizon Communications (VZ) which they are offering over their fiber-optic cable network. They are able to transfer data at 50 megabits a second now, and is able to do it at 100 Mbps, with almost unlimited growth in site.
With the new modem, a demonstration was given where ARRIS Group Inc. chief executive Robert Stanzione downloaded the 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica 2007 and Merriam-Webster's visual dictionary in less than four minutes. The normal modem in use would have taken about three hours and 12 minutes.
Commenting on it, Brian Roberts said, "If you look at what just happened, 55 million words, 100,000 articles, more than 22,000 pictures, maps and more than 400 video clips. The same download on dial-up would have taken two weeks."
Time will only tell which one will win out in the end, but it does show what will be coming up in a very short time, and who knows what entrepreneurs will do when these types of speeds are made available, and the products that will be able to be offered as a result?
It's only a very short time until this is upon us.
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