(12-14-2016 03:08 PM)adcorbett Wrote: (12-14-2016 03:00 PM)TodgeRodge Wrote: (12-14-2016 02:29 PM)adcorbett Wrote: Big difference between supplemental streaming, and the majority of users getting all of their video content from net streaming. Even as data capacity improves, it is still a waste of infrastructure (to me) to use the new gains to simply replace a current system, and neglecting the hardware already there, that has the best condensing of HD video already.
It would be like having flying cars, but restricting them flying over only the existing roads.
the current plan for AT&T and Direct TV is for AT&T to move all of their current TV subs (be it Uverse, or any traditional coax cable plant customers they have in a very few areas) over to getting their TV (as in what is considered traditional cable TV) over to Direct TV
once they do that they have freed the bandwidth that is taken up on Uverse for "TV" to be converted over to internet bandwidth e
Well Uverse is different, since it technically is an over the top service, as the UVerse signal actually takes up a portion of the internet bandwidth that is reserved purely for Uverse.
When I had uverse, I asked about it, because I had noticed there was a datacap in the agreement of 250Gig per month, and when the installer told me about it, I wanted to make sure the Uverse did not count against it (it doesn't).
but once 100% of the UVerse TV customers (what would be considered traditional cable TV customers) are off of the UVerse plant that bandwidth can then be freed up for all of the Uverse internet subscribers
the issue with UVerse is that being hybrid twisted copper pair/fibre Vs direct fibre to the home is that twisted copper pair has a limit to the total bandwidth it can carry and more so because of the poor shielding of that copper pair a limit to the distance that data can be carried
the "last mile" to each individual home is the most expensive part to build out so moving from that twisted copper pair to a fibre right to the home is extremely expensive and really cost prohibitive in many places
BUT for a very short distance a copper pair can carry a hell of a lot of data.....but not NEAR what fibre can
and with even Uverse and the TV portion of Uverse being a "shout/broadcast" of channels down the line you are eating up a massive amount of bandwidth in that twisted pair to only have each home watch a couple of channels at a time while all of the other bandwidth those unwatched channels are taking up is going to waste
AT&T has pulled fibre into the neighborhood boxes in tons and tons of areas so it is there and waiting
now if they can free up the "TV" bandwidth on the twisted pair from each individual home that runs to that neighborhood box with fibre then they can offer a ton more internet bandwidth without pulling fibre right to the home
cable (coax) has the issue of the shared last mile
coax because of the shielding can carry much more data for a much greater distance
but because traditional cable long before internet was and still is a "shout/broadcast" of channels coax has the shared last mile issue and those traditional cable companies have the expense of running fibre further and further down the line and getting fewer and fewer subs sharing the bandwidth
this is the reason why when DSL came out you had to be within 3,000 feet of the central office....because your twisted pair can only carry data so far....as they pulled fibre to the neighborhood boxes where those twisted pairs came together the distance issue was lessened
with cable TV in the past the reason you could steal cable and or get channels you were not subscribed to by removing filter blocks at the tap is because all channels come down the line and the actual physical filter block kept you from getting some pay channels
and as cable ready TVs came out and as people stole cable boxes and or boot leg cable box suppliers were out there before the two way security was in place.....if you went outside and screwed your coax back onto the tap you got free cable until the next time the line was audited or a repairman came out and audited the line while he was there
to telco/twisted copper pair ISPs stand to gain of they can shift TV off of their plant much more than cable/coax ISPs