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  2. Optical cross-connect - Wikipedia

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    An optical cross-connect (OXC) is a device used by telecommunications carriers to switch high-speed optical signals in a fiber optic network, such as an optical mesh network. In the 1980s, when transmission speeds supported by optical fibers increased from 45 Mbit/s to 2.5 Gbit/s , carrier networks developed and introduced digital cross ...

  3. Fibre satellite distribution - Wikipedia

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    An eight-way optical signal splitter to feed eight virtual LNBs or further splitters from a single optical feed. While optical fibre has been used for telephone and Internet backbone data, and even for television and multimedia carriage for terrestrial cable, for many years, use for satellite IF distribution has been held back by considerations of cost and installation convenience.

  4. G.709 - Wikipedia

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    The FEC code also extends the distance the optical signal can travel before requiring regeneration. G.709 offers advanced OAM&P capabilities such as Tandem Connection Monitoring (TCM), End to End performance monitoring, connectivity monitoring, signal quality supervision and General Communication Channel (GCC).

  5. Digital television - Wikipedia

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    Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) is a digital radio transmission technology developed in South Korea [4] [5] [6] as part of the national information technology project for sending multimedia such as TV, radio and datacasting to mobile devices such as mobile phones, laptops and GPS navigation systems.

  6. ATSC standards - Wikipedia

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    A/72 part 1: Video System Characteristics of AVC in the ATSC Digital Television System [11] A/72 part 2 : AVC Video Transport Subsystem Characteristics [ 12 ] The new standards support 1080p at 50, 59.94 and 60 frames per second; such frame rates require H.264/AVC High Profile Level 4.2 , while standard HDTV frame rates only require Levels 3.2 ...

  7. Composite video - Wikipedia

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    In professional settings, or on devices that are too small for an RCA connector, such as a digital camera, other types of connectors can be used. Composite video is also known by the initials CVBS for Composite Video Baseband Signal or Color, Video, Blanking and Sync , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] or is simply referred to as SD video for the standard-definition ...

  8. Digital television in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The five main ATSC formats of DTV currently [when?] broadcast in the U.S. are: . Standard definition—480i, to maintain compatibility with existing NTSC sets when a digital television broadcast is converted back to an analog one [citation needed] —either by a converter box or a cable/satellite operator's proprietary equipment

  9. 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 ...