enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Cable television - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television

    Diagram of a modern hybrid fiber-coaxial cable television system. At the regional headend, the TV channels are sent multiplexed on a light beam which travels through optical fiber trunklines, which fan out from distribution hubs to optical nodes in local communities.

  3. Cable television headend - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television_headend

    A standard rack-mount headend. Once a television signal is received, it must be processed. For digital satellite TV signals, a dedicated commercial satellite receiver is needed for each channel that is to be distributed by the cable system; these are usually rack-mountable receivers that are designed to take up less space than consumer receivers.

  4. Hybrid fiber-coaxial - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_fiber-coaxial

    In a hybrid fiber-coaxial cable system, television channels are sent from the cable system's distribution facility, the headend, to local communities through optical fiber subscriber lines. At the local community, an optical node translates the signal from a light beam to radio frequency (RF), and sends it over coaxial cable lines for ...

  5. Cable modem - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_modem

    The Com21 system used a ComController as the central bridge in CATV network head-ends, the ComPort cable modem in various models and the NMAPS management system using HP OpenView as the platform. Later they also introduced a return path multiplexer to overcome noise problems when combining return path signals from multiple areas.

  6. DOCSIS - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS

    A DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem A cable modem termination system (CMTS) A DOCSIS architecture includes two primary components: a cable modem located at the customer premises, and a cable modem termination system (CMTS) located at the CATV headend. [27] The customer PC and associated peripherals are termed customer-premises equipment (CPE). The CPE are ...

  7. Outside plant - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outside_plant

    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 ...

  8. 24 Discontinued '70s and '80s Foods That We'll Never ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/finance/24-discontinued-70s-80s...

    3. Keebler Fudge Magic Middles. Neither the chocolate fudge cream inside a shortbread cookie nor versions with peanut butter or chocolate chip crusts survived.

  9. Structured cabling - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_cabling

    Structured cabling network diagram. Structured cabling is the design and installation of a cabling system that will support multiple hardware uses and be suitable for today's needs and those of the future. With a correctly installed system, current and future requirements can be met, and hardware that is added in the future will be supported. [1]