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- From: bwilson@traveller.com (Bob Wilson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.ethernet,comp.dcom.modems,rec.video.cable-tv
- Subject: Cable modem collision domains
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 08:48:00 -0500
- Organization: BJ Associates, Inc.
- Distribution: inet
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- How do cable-modem systems (i.e., digital in a 6 mhz band on a cable
- system), handle channel arbitration?
-
- Cable networks are orders of magnitude too large to support CSMA unless
- some sort of bridging / routing is used. This in turn introduces a host of
- other problems. Most of the network available information indicates
- transmission and reception is split within the 6 mhz bandwidth (i.e., full
- duplex). My guess is they use part of the bandwidth for channel
- arbitration but I've not found that in my researches. In fact, considering
- the 75 ohm cable and likly variability of cable plants, I would doubt that
- CSMA would be an optimum solution.
-
- Also, is it time to form a newsgroup devoted to cable-modems?
-
- I've posted to three groups because each has had posting on the subject in
- the past. This technology is important and timely yet to the best of my
- knowledge, there isn't even a listserver for cable-modems. I have found a
- growing set of Web sites but somethings are best done in a newsgroup.
-
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