<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Joel Jaeggli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joelja@bogus.com">joelja@bogus.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:<br>
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> What the problem is that it's hard to convince someone that the<br>
> device they have had for the last 5 years that's still working<br>
> perfectly, will not get support from the manufacturer for upgrades.<br>
<br>
</div>Actually it's not, and in most case the adoption will be driven by the<br>
same things it was last time. ie more speed on the wan from your *dsl<br>
platform docsis 3.0 or ftth deployment or on the lan side from 802.11n<br>
or gigabit ethernet, the trick always is sneak the new software support<br>
in with some things the customer really think they want... How many of<br>
us are still using the same cpe we were using in the era of 256K dsl<br>
service?</blockquote></div><br><br>That's a costly trick. Try a capex program to replace all CPE so that every customers has chip sets that support 3.0 and DOCSIS. It all sounds nice on paper, but it isn't.<br><br>
-M<<br><br><br>