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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. Network interface device - Wikipedia

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   An optical network terminal mounted to the outside of a building, with the cover open. In fiber-to-the-premises systems, the signal is transmitted to the customer premises using optical fiber technologies. Unlike many conventional telephone technologies, this does not provide power for premises equipment, nor is it suitable for direct ...

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. 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 tray - Wikipedia

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   Cable trays are used as an alternative to open wiring or electrical conduit systems, and are commonly used for cable management in commercial and industrial construction. They are especially useful in situations where changes to a wiring system are anticipated, since new cables can be installed by laying them in the tray, instead of pulling ...

9. Converter/descrambler - Wikipedia

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   When a descrambler is added to the Cable Converter Box in the same chassis, it is referred to as a Converter/Descrambler or sometimes a Combination Unit, and is a type of Set-top box, it allows : local broadcast channels, basic cable channels, authorized premium channels, "Pay-Per-View" (PPV), and “Video On Demand” (VOD) services to be viewed.