Broadband big Comcast stated it’s starting deployment of its quickest web connectivity in choose cities within the U.S.
The corporate is deploying its DOCSIS 4.0 expertise, which might supply symmetrical add and obtain speeds, starting from 300 megabits per second (Mbps) to 2 Gbps.
This announcement comes as the corporate goals to ship multi-gig symmetrical speeds to residential prospects over their current connections.
Subsequent week, Comcast plans to introduce the primary residential prospects to this next-generation web expertise. The deployment will initially be accessible in choose neighborhoods of Colorado Springs, with areas of Atlanta and Philadelphia set to come back on-line within the close to future.
“The ubiquity of our community, which is already accessible to tens of hundreds of thousands of properties, offers us with an unimaginable alternative to deliver multi-gigabit add and obtain speeds to communities throughout the nation with the dimensions and effectivity that no different supplier can replicate,” stated Dave Watson, CEO of Comcast Cable, in a press release. “Our connectivity expertise, powered by the Xfinity 10G Community, will permit us to ship speeds as much as 10 Gbps over our conventional community to just about all our prospects, plus even higher reliability, decrease latency, and the most effective in-home WiFi protection.”
Comcast’s introduction of DOCSIS 4.0 will deliver forth a brand new portfolio of symmetrical merchandise for residential prospects. These merchandise, often known as X-Class Web, will provide a spread of velocity tiers, together with X-300 Mbps, X-500 Mbps, X-1 Gbps, and X-2 Gbps. With low lag and ultra-responsive efficiency, X-Class Web goals to supply an distinctive on-line expertise for actions akin to stay sports activities streaming, work calls, and gaming.
The trail to DOCSIS 4.0 for Comcast entails leveraging breakthrough community expertise known as “full duplex.” This expertise permits for dramatically elevated upstream speeds with out compromising downstream speeds, utilizing the identical community spectrum.
Comcast carried out the first-ever stay check of full duplex DOCSIS in 2021 and later achieved the world’s first 10G connection from the community to a modem. Final 12 months, Comcast carried out a stay trial connecting a enterprise location to its DOCSIS 4.0-enabled 10G community. In February 2023, the corporate made a big milestone by launching the Xfinity 10G Community improve to 10 million properties and companies.
Along with the DOCSIS 4.0 deployment, Comcast has invested in varied applied sciences to reinforce its community’s velocity, reliability, and latency. These embody distributed entry structure (DAA), a vCMTS, Comcast Octave, Xfinity Fiber Meter (XMF), Storm-Prepared WiFi, and low latency implementations.
DOCSIS, which stands for Information Over Cable Service Interface Specification, was initially launched in 1997 as a method to transmit high-speed knowledge over current cable wires. Comcast has been on the forefront of deploying DOCSIS updates, together with the introduction of DOCSIS 3.1-powered Gigabit Web service in 2016.
Residents of Colorado Springs can have the chance to enroll on-line for these new DOCSIS 4.0-powered Web plans.