[opendtv] Re: Comcast Exec Sees Greater Use of DVRs
- From: John Willkie <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 04:38:24 +0000 (GMT+00:00)
"Oh yeah, hang a hard drive off the pole in my neighborhood. That'll last the
entire winter."
They're not at the network edge, but any cable company interested in
provisioning real telephone service has or will build out power kiosks in
public right of way every 3/4 mile of trunk line or so. The half-way decent
ones have many "truck batteries" and include a Onan (or other brand) natural
gas generator in a half-underground concrete pad.
After almost a decade of walking by one, I was able to see inside a few weeks
back. The guy working on it, in response to my inquiry, said "that's the first
time in all the years I've been working on these things that somebody walked
up and correctly identified what these things are." He was working on an air
filter.
There was plentyof gear in the kiosk, but room for a few hundred harddrives,
largely removed from the weather. Spinning hard drives are kinda warm. My WAG
is that several thousand homes are served by a power kiosk in the Cox Cable
network, and they have hundreds of these in their franchise area.
Of course, when one thinks of integrating the harddrives into the network
topology, one shudders. The aerial cable was actually across the street - the
parkway was almost non-existent on that side of the street.
John Willkie
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