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2. 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 ...

3. Multichannel television in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Multichannel television in the United States has been available since at least 1948. The United States is served by multichannel television through cable television systems, direct-broadcast satellite providers, and various other wireline video providers; among the largest television providers in the U.S. are YouTube TV, DirecTV, Altice USA, Charter Communications (through its Spectrum ...

4. 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 ...

5. Xfinity - Wikipedia

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   Xfinity Voice (formerly Comcast Digital Voice) is a Voice Over IP cable telephony service that was launched in 2005 in some markets, [75] and to all of Comcast's markets in 2006. Comcast's older service, Comcast Digital Phone, continued to offer service for a brief period, until Comcast shut it down around in late 2007. [ 76 ]

6. Cable television - Wikipedia

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   At an outdoor cable box on the subscriber's residence, the company's service drop cable is connected to cables distributing the signal to different rooms in the building. At each television, the subscriber's television or a set-top box provided by the cable company translates the desired channel back to its original frequency ( baseband ), and ...

7. Cable modem termination system - Wikipedia

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   A cable modem termination system (CMTS, also called a CMTS Edge Router) [1] is a piece of equipment, typically located in a cable company's headend or hubsite, which is used to provide data services, such as cable Internet or Voice over IP, to cable subscribers.

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 television headend - Wikipedia

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   Most digital video signals are compressed to MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 formats in order to combine multiple video streams into a QAM making the most efficient use of spectrum which a customer cable set top box receives, demodulates, de-encrypts and displays as a virtual channel number that the viewer recognizes. In many cases the same TV network may ...