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Originally Posted by vm_tech
For additional downstream frequencies, a license has to be purchased from
The CMTS provider. So makes no sense financially to run at full capacity unless necessary.
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Exactly. VM pay for every downstream channel they turn up. With that in mind running with the fewest feasible downstreams is a good call.
The node my property is connected to, for example, only has about a hundred premises on it right now as the build is incomplete, so runs on 16 channels. I will play my part in triggering an upgrade by subscribing to the business 'Voom' 350/20 service, waiting on the next business service to come along.
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
That's an important pointer to the remedies in VM's capacity management toolkit.
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Same for every other provider realistically.
When 24 downstream channels are inadequate for an area they will either have to split the node, which they may do via a remote PHY solution, or deliver DOCSIS 3.1 to offload heavy users from the 3.0 platform.