Fast Net News, DSL Prime, DOCSIS Report

6M or 7M  of Cox's 10M homes will soon be able to connect at 50 meg or more as they roll out DOCSIS 3.0. CTO Chris Bowick told Brian Santo of CED Cox would be reaching some markets in 2009 and many by 2010.  Cox's Dave Grabert confirms "DOCSIS 3.0 will be further deployed in 09 and 2010, culminating in deployment to around two-thirds of our customers in 2010," although he adds that might change "based on competitive factors." I'd guess upstream will become common in 2010 as well, based on the results of trials now in Japan and soon at Comcast.

I've therefore updated the DOCSIS Chart, where I now project easily 60% U.S. coverage by 2010. Comcast is starting upstream trials Q4 2009, and I expect Cox will not be far behind.