Shaw expands higher speed internet offerings
Thanks to the deployment of DOCSIS 3.0 internet communications technology, Shaw Communications today officially announced the launch of its High-Speed Nitro service in Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver.
The Nitro service was first introduced in Saskatoon in February of this year and later rolled out to Winnipeg and Victoria.
In Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Victoria, the Nitro service offer 25Mbps download speeds with a 150GB bandwidth cap for $106.95 per month.
In Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver, surfers will get download speeds of up to 100 megabits per second (Mbps) but will be required to subscribe to at least one other Shaw service and pay $150 per month.
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no thanks, will wait for fios
Novus is capable of >100Mbps. DOCSIS and 3Mbps upload…meh, I guess that’s fast considering their previous offering of 768Kbps. Vancouver based Novus Entertainment offers 60Mbps synchronous services. That’s 60Mbps down and 60Mbps up.
I work for Novus and of course i’m biased. I’m currently testing Gbit speeds at my place…sorry people, but we don’t want to roll this out yet…1000Mbps, is that FIOS? why use the american term? Like calling Motorola PVR’s, TiVo.
FiOS is actually the name of the service offered by Verizon. Sometimes, perhaps due to ignorance, people like to use it as a technical term for FTTx. In the case of FiOS, FTTP.
I’m going to have to bring you back to Earth here. Any network admin, let alone one who works in the telecomm industry can pass 100Mbps off as “meh”. But realistically, as impressive as it is, 1Gbps means nothing until it’s being offered. Novus being ABLE to do over 100Mbps means nothing until it’s being offered. Granted, you do offer synchronous service up to 60Mbps, at a bargain price, you are still limited to your service area.
DOCSIS 3.0 is not limited to just 100Mbps.. The average consumer, be it residential or business cares only about what they can get NOW. Not “Coming soon”. And that is exactly why this DOCSIS 3.0 launch is in the news. I can only suspect that 100Mbps is a starting window for the service until they can figure out what to do about all those 10/100 NICs out there.
I don’t work for Shaw, but I am in the telecomm industry with both feet on the ground.