Verizon Combining TV/Phone/Internet

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I don't know too much about the equipment found in terminals, I worked on the transport side (getting a circuit from one city to the next city) and there the locals would take it to the end customers. Reading that brochure, it like a piece of equipment that would take a circuit and break it up into individual services for individual customers, plus take care of traffic grooming, ie video packets and audio packets have to get there in a timely fashion compared to packets carrying regular internet data (surfing, email, file downloading etc). I did notice it was capable of giving 40Mbits a second per customer, which is almost OC-1 (51.84Mbits/s), so that's a huge amount of data, like 28 T1 lines.

As for the synchronous vs ayschronous transport, the muxing and demuxing, and the effect if has on ping, look at like this:

Synchronous transport:
Picture and endless line of railroad cars moving at a constant speed. Each car is divided from front to back into 4 compartments, 1-4. Each compartment represents a customer's data. One customer's data is always in the 1st compartment of each railroad car, the next customer's data is always in the second compartment of each railroad car, etc.
If you wanted to offload just the first customer's data at a certain station, it's quite easy: as the cars go by, just time it so that you snatch the data from every 1st compartment, you don't have to do anything with the 3 other compartments.
Thats the system SONET uses , Synchronous Optical NETworking,

Asynchronous is more like ethernet, it's 'bursty'. Kinda like the way we talk. We take turns talking,for random lenghts of time, sometimes with long silences, sometime no silences in between, then a big burst of talking and listening. Well, you can take four peoples conversations (or data) and mux them (multiplex them) which is mixing them together by some method so that you can combine them into one big, complex signal and send it down the line.
Now if you want to strip out just one conversation, you have to completely demux the whole signal, all four of them, strip out the one conversation you want, and re-mux (re-combine) them and send them further on down the line. This takes more time, it's more comples, thus it adds lag.

Now that's not quite English, but it's a little easier to understand
Actually, Evan probably knows a lot about what happens at the end of the line as ECGN must deal with the 'locals' all the time.

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Originally posted by ConScIouS
I was over my friends house this afternoon for a fourth of July party and his cousin who is 22 was in the Navy and was a System Software Coder/Hacker...He was telling me that Verizon is laying Fibercables to achieve download speeds of up to 10-20x faster then broadband upon its release date. He also told me that Verizon would be able to offer this at relatively the same price as comcast, and most likely even buying out comcast. Lastly he informed me that Verizon will combine TV, Internet and Phone lines through one fiberwire to your house, so you can pay for it all in one monthly bill. Anyone else heard anything like this.

All the wireless/wireline companies are trying to do something like this, including the one that I work for. However, currently there is a telecom law that prevents them from doing it even though the cable companies can invade the telecom turf.