What can future innovation deliver?

 

Thanks to several waves of innovation, cable technology today offers an enhanced TV experience and state of the art broadband access. In broadband, the up and download capacities will be even further enhanced with the launch of Docsis 3.1, a technology that has an exciting future and can gradually offer customers the broadband speeds they require.

 

With this enhanced technology, cable providers will be able to deliver up to 10 Gbit/s speeds in the downstream and 1 to 2 Gbit/s in the upstream. This is comparable to technologies such as fibre to the home (FTTH) which are too often portrayed as the only future proof broadband technology. This capability easily embraces predicted future speed demands, as shown by a recent independent study* which set average demands at 165 Mbps download and 20Mbps upload by 2020.

 

Cable technology is a cost-effective, future-proof way to offer a superb user experience to European consumers.

 

* “Fast Forward: How the speed of the internet will develop between now and 2020” Technische Universiteit Eindhoven / Dialogic