This piece of snippet apparently got cable geeks excited. Cisco demonstrated – well, showed a slide anyway – of a concept to make a DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem perform at 1Gbps through the use of optical networks. That’s more than 25 times the throughput of your humble DOCSIS 2.0 cable modems, reports MulitChannel News. Cisco Software Architect Alon Bernstein, presenting at the SCTE’s Emerging Technologies conference in Los Angeles, showed a screen shot of a command-line interface for a cable modem delivering upstream throughput of 974,723,228 bits per second, reports MultiChannel News. Such a cable modem is unlikely to be available anytime soon, but Bernstein wanted to suggest what could be next after the advent of DOCSIS 3.0.
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