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Tired of slow internet connections? CableLabs announces a new version of DOCSIS 3.1 (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) with Full Duplex 10Gbps connectivity. From an article at The Register:
Which is why an announcement by the cable industry's research and development arm, CableLabs, this week is such good news. The organization has completed work on an upgrade to the next-generation DOCSIS 3.1 spec that in the next few years will replace the "M" in Mbps with a "G" for gigabit.
DOCSIS 3.1 is the cutting edge of home cable technology, and big players such as Comcast in the US are testing it in specific markets with a new generation of modems. That testing and rollout of near-gigabit broadband in the US, UK, Canada and beyond has been somewhat marred, though, by the fact that high-speed DOCSIS 3.1 home gateways powered by Intel Puma chips suffer from annoying latency jittering under certain conditions, and can be trivially knocked offline by attackers. No fixes are available.
Those hardware problems aside, the DOCSIS 3.1 spec has another issue: it sticks to the age-old sucky 10-to-1 downlink-uplink ratio.
No longer with the Full Duplex Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification. Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 will allow broadband subscribers – in the next two years – to benefit from up to 10Gbps both up and down. And it will be possible on existing household connections rather than requiring the installation of new fiber.
[...] You can find out more about Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 on the CableLabs website.
So, you could reach your monthly 1 TB data cap allowance in just under 3 hours, assuming, of course that the upstream link is not so oversubscribed that you only actually get a fraction of that.
All kidding aside, that is a huge speed improvement. A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that a 100GB BDXL Blu-ray disk could be downloaded in about 2 minutes. As the connection is full-duplex, it could be uploaded in about 2 minutes, too.
I can't even think of anything where that kind of speed would be useful in a home, except for making for speedier downloads of game/OS updates/installs and maybe for offsite backups.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday October 16 2017, @11:45PM (1 child)
I have multiple *free* IPv4 addresses and my ISP doesn't care that I run all manner of servers too. And that's great. For what it is.
The rub is that my upload bandwidth is small, so I can't share (securely or otherwise) much, whether it's photos from a family wedding, medical information or video from a company softball team. it's just too slow
Without reasonable upload bandwidth at a reasonable cost, we're incented to use systems that interpose themselves between those who create, share and/or communicate.
Those who control such systems are, at best, using that position to make money by spying on people. At worst, they're actively seeking control as well as profit by deciding *what* you see and read, and in which order. The truth is likely somewhere in between.
Some folks have created tools and other software to create decentralized ways to replace those systems but they failed to garner much interest, largely because the slow upload capacity (whether limited by bandwidth or TOS) for most users makes it impractical.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday October 16 2017, @11:50PM
I'd wish I could retract my comment, but I can't. The best I can do is to apologize for it (and offer a link to an updated one [soylentnews.org]).
Yes, indeed, the liberty to host your own server should be derived and be defended by net neutrality (assuming such a thing still exists).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford