Comcast To Roll Out DOCSIS 3.1 Internet Service in Five Markets This Year
Comcast plans to roll out DOCSIS 3.1-powered gigabit Internet service in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Miami and Nashville later this year, it said in a news release Tuesday. Comcast installed its first DOCSIS 3.1 modems in Atlanta and Philadelphia earlier this…
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year, it said. "Combined with all the upgrades we have already put into our advanced fiber optic-coax network, [DOCSIS 3.1] will not only provide more gigabit speed choices for customers, it will also eventually make these ultra-fast speeds available to the most homes in our service areas," Comcast Central Division President Bill Connors said in a statement. Comcast said DOCSIS 3.1 modems have been tested, but their use in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Miami and Nashville is their first wide deployment.