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- Path: uu4news.netcom.com!calcite!vjs
- From: vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: Cable modem collision domains
- Distribution: inet
- Message-ID: <DL4ooA.Es2@calcite.rhyolite.com>
- Organization: Rhyolite Software
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 16:33:46 GMT
- References: <bwilson-1301960848000001@bwilson.traveller.com>
-
- In article <bwilson-1301960848000001@bwilson.traveller.com> bwilson@traveller.com (Bob Wilson) writes:
- >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.
- > ...
-
- There are a bunch of schemes for sharing the bandwidth. One popular
- proposal is DQDB. DQ-WRAP (however you spell it) was also being
- pushed. At least one of the commercial cable modem vendors is using
- a TDM/polling scheme driven by the box at the head end.
-
- It's been a while since I heard from the mailing list for IEEE 802.14
- (the IEEE date over cable TV standards committee). Either I've fallen
- off the list, or they finally took the suggestion of one of the
- commercial participants and disbanded. No, never mind. Standards
- committees never disband themselves.
-
-
- Vernon Schryver vjs@rhyolite.com
-