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2. Telecommunications pedestal - Wikipedia

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   Pedestals are used for CATV (known as a cable box in such a situation), telephone, passive optical networks, and other telecommunications systems. A pedestal is generally a sheet metal or plastic housing that encloses a passive termination block. The pedestal is usually about 3 feet high and has a diameter of less than one foot, with a circular ...

3. Cable box (outside) - Wikipedia

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   A cable box is a metal enclosure (found in the vicinity of a house that has cable service) that connects a house or building to the cable provider. [1] The box is usually located near the connection points for other service connections (electric or telephone). Other locations of the cable box include centralized locations (apartment buildings ...

4. Network interface device - Wikipedia

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   Two simple NIDs, carrying six lines each, on the outside of a building A German copper phone line termination box called Abschlusspunkt LinienTechnik (APL, "Demarcation point") In telecommunications , a network interface device ( NID ; also known by several other names) is a device that serves as the demarcation point between the carrier's ...

5. Outside plant - Wikipedia

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   Serving Area Interface. In telecommunications, the term outside plant has the following meanings: . In civilian telecommunications, outside plant refers to all of the physical cabling and supporting infrastructure (such as conduit, cabinets, tower or poles), and any associated hardware (such as repeaters) located between a demarcation point in a switching facility and a demarcation point in ...

6. Set-top box - Wikipedia

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   A typical modern set-top box, along with its remote control - pictured here a digital terrestrial TV receiver by TEAC. A set-top box (STB), also known as a cable box, receiver, or simply box, and historically television decoder or a converter, [1] is an information appliance device that generally contains a TV tuner input and displays output to a television set, turning the source signal into ...

7. Pad-mounted transformer - Wikipedia

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   The wiring cabinet has sidewalls on two ends with doors that open sideways to expose the high and low voltage wiring compartments. [ 1 ] Pad-mount transformers have self-protecting fuses consisting of a bayonet mount fuse placed in a high voltage compartment, with a backup high energy current limiting fuse in series to protect against secondary ...

8. Cable box - Wikipedia

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   Cable box (electronics) an electronic device that controls cable television in individual homes; Cable box (outside) a box located outside a residence that connects cable television; The Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina is sometimes colloquially referred to as the "cable box." the television set-top box is sometimes referred ...

9. Cable converter box - Wikipedia

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   Pace Micro Technology DC757X HD cable box. A cable converter box or television converter box is an electronic tuning device that transposes/converts channels from a cable television service to an analog RF signal on a single channel, usually VHF channel 3 or 4, or to a different output for digital televisions such as HDMI.