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Mediacom Wraps Illinois in Ultra-Broadband Mediacom has begun expanding a 1Gbit/s service across its Illinois territory, leveraging its DOCSIS 3.1 investment to deploy ultra-broadband to more residents and small businesses in more than 275 of the state's small cities and towns. The cable operator has spent more than $8 billion to acquire, upgrade and expand its national broadband network over the past 21 years, said Todd Curtis, group vice president for the Lincoln region of Mediacom Communications Corp. , in a statement. With the latest offering, high-speed broadband is available to more than 400,000 Illinois households and positions "hundreds of rural communities" to enter the gigabit era, he added. (See Mediacom Goes Big on DOCSIS 3.1 Upgrade and Mediacom Gigs Out in New Illinois Towns.) So far, Mediacom has deployed its Gigasphere platform in more than 800 communities, with plans to extend the 1Gbit/s service to almost all 3 million homes and businesses within its 22-state market. And the platform is the foundation for multi-gig services in the future, Tom Larson, senior vice president of Government and Public Relations at Mediacom, told UBB2020 earlier this year. (See Mediacom Delivers 1Gpbs Service Across Iowa) "The equipment we've installed on the network allows us to seamlessly go to Full Duplex DOCSIS," adds Larson in January. "We knew it had a future-proof element to it. We looked out 10 years, 15 years, and said, 'We know we've got the network that can go that long.' You want to have enough right-of-way on either side of the road so you have enough room to widen roads and still add more traffic." Related posts:
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Deploying DOCSIS 3.1 across its entire footprint gave Rogers Communications the ability to offer speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s,
contributing to a broadband segement that generated about 60% of the Canadian operator's $3.05 billion (US) in Q4 cable earnings.
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