Despite being locked in limbo awaiting the FCC's net neutrality" report Comcast have.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080312-comcast-to-beef-up-network-with-new-100gbps-optics.htmlToday at the Internet Engineering Task Force meeting in Philadelphia, Comcast and Nortel announced a successful trial of a 100Gbps optical solution for its metro and long haul networks. Translated: the companies are using new Nortel gear to shuttle traffic over a 100Gbps wavelength that's also carrying live 10Gbps and 40Gbps links. That means more overhead for the traffic demands of high-def video and DOCSIS 3.0.
"Fundamentally, it's a significant technical achievement and technical milestone," John Schanz, Comcast executive VP of national engineering and technical operations, told Ars. "As we continue to expand our cross-platform video, voice and data services, we need these types of innovative technologies from vendors like Nortel to support the rapid growth of new applications and services that run over our network."
Should the 100Gbps gear work as advertised, it could undermine some of AT&T's recent trash talking about cable network capacity.
Lets hope the FCC say all those who have been misold sevices and then throttled should be compensated by getting some of this great upgrade power for their suffering
