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- Subject: Re: Cable modem collision domains
- Date: 13 Jan 1996 19:27:51 -0500
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- The current generation of RF cable modems use a modified form CSMA/CD,
- allowing symmetrical,full-duplex communication up to 100 miles from the
- head-end (round trip).
-
- Zenith Electronics HomeWorks allows, 4, 500Kb/s networks to reside on a
- 6 Mhz channel. We need 2, 6 Mhz channels to do this; one in the
- downstream (from the head-end) working at 50 Mhz to 750Mhz and the return
- from 12 to 108 Mhz. A device called a frequnecy translator is located in
- the head-end. This up converts the upstream and makes the system appear
- full-duplex.
-
- The system is set up on a hybrid-fiber-coax system which has fiber going
- to a neighborhood node of 500 tp 1000 home. From the fiber node, coax is
- dropped into each house. The use of fiber optics allows the reuse of
- spectrial frequencies; a router at the CATV head-end feeds ports to each
- fiber-node with bridging beteween nodes.
-
- The "next' generartion of cable modems do not use CSMA/CD for
- transmission. Zenith's next modem will use CDMA (code division
- modulation) allowing speeds of 256Kb/s up to 10.5 Mb/s allowing CBR, ABR
- and VBR operation (voice, video and data).
-
- James Treuhaft: Zenith Electronics
-