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Originally Posted by Dennis Steiger
Steiger, who was promoted to CTO near the end of last month, said that Shaw has spent “hundreds of millions” of dollars creating an infrastructure that will support today’s need, as well as keep the company ahead of the curve for years to come.
The bulk of the infrastructure spending has been around fiber-to-the-premises, 100 Gbps backbone and metro networks, upgrades to 1 GHz HFC plant, aggressive node splitting to 250 homes in a service group, the move to all-digital delivery, and the use of advanced compression techniques (such as MPEG-4) and in-home gateway systems.
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Aggressive node splitting, hey? Guess I'll call tomorrow to see if Shaw can actually deliver BB 100 a year after they started promoting it.