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Cable television headend - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music Cable television headend is a master facility for receiving television signals for processing and distribution over a cable television system. The headend facility is normally unmanned and surrounded by some type of security fencing and is typically a building or large shed housing electronic equipment used to receive and re-transmit video over the local cable infrastructure. The cable TV headend will normally have several large, television receive-only satellite television dishes for reception of cable/satellite TV networks such as ESPN, CNN, or HBO; a dedicated, non-movable dish is required for each satellite that the cable TV utility wishes to receive cable channels off of for distribution over its system. www.music.us /education/C/Cable-television-headend.htm   (606 words)

Cable television headend - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cable television headend is a master facility for receiving television signals for processing and distribution over a cable television system. The headend facility is normally unmanned and surrounded by some type of security fencing and is typically a building or large shed housing electronic equipment used to receive and re-transmit video over the local cable infrastructure. Once received, cable television signals are then mixed into the cable system's channel numbering scheme using a series of cable modulators (one for each channel), which is in turn fed into a frequency multiplexer. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cable_television_headend   (538 words)

Cable television headend: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance.... Cable television or community antenna television (catv) (and often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, fm radio programming... Television receive-only, or tvro, refers to satellite television reception equipment that is based primarily on open standards equipment.... www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/cable_television_headend.htm   (824 words)

CableLabs Cable Systems Overview Cable television systems traditionally have delivered entertainment video to consumers' homes—with the emergence of fiber-optic technology and the convergence of video, voice and data, many cable systems provide extended services, such as video-on-demand, voice-over-Internet Protocol, and high-speed Internet access. In the early days of cable television, trunk, feeder, and drop were the coaxial cables that carried the signal from the headend through a series of distribution points to the terminal equipment in a subscriber's home. As cable operators continue to invest in upgrading their cable systems with innovative technology, a new generation of integrated services will be delivered to homes and businesses around the world. www.cablelabs.com /news/primer   (802 words)

city_clerk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Cable with a central copper strand for transmitting electrical signals, surrounded by a concentric air or insulation core, and enclosed by an outer (electrically shielding) concentric metal fiber, either braided or solid. The control center of a cable television system, where incoming signals are amplified, converted, processed and combined into a common cable along with any original cablecasting, for transmission to subscribers. Cable systems that have the technical ability to let subscribers communicate directly with a computer at the system headend from their television sets, using special converters and the regular cable lines. www.oaklandnet.com /government/city_clerk/cable-info/glossary.html   (1388 words)

Cable Modem Using the cable television fiber-optic wire as a backbone, the cable company can place a box in the home that will allow for high-speed downloads and not so bad uploads. Cable modem subscribers are typically charged for service on their cable bill, rather than paying the Internet provider directly. The local cable company is responsible for installing the cable modem and managing the quality of the service over the local cable network. www.internetproviders.cc /cablemodem.html   (377 words)

Virtual assets in an interactive television cable system (US5805155) The headend includes the mass storage of multimedia data-assets that each contain a large number of individual data-items that may be of interest to various set-top users. When this set-top query is received at the headend, a table or list is established whereby the query and its set-top ID are associated with related data assets. As the headend's data-asset storage is changed from time to time, the changes that relate to listed set-top queries result in an update of the query list. www.delphion.com /details?pn=US05805155__   (417 words)

Cable Compatible/ Cable Ready Coaxial trunk cable is used between trunk amplifiers to transport the signals from the headend to the extremities of the system. In a headend it is a device or devices used to combine the channels for entry onto the cable or fiber optic transmitter(s). A set-top converter is installed in front of the customer's television receiver to change the frequency of the midband, superband or hyperband signals to a suitable channel or channels, typically a low VHF channel, that the television receiver is able to tune. www.cboreland.com /Glossary/C.htm   (1745 words)

White Papers of the NII: Cable Television Technology Deployment Cable television reached its current form during the mid-1970s when the technology was developed that allowed cable customers to receive satellite transmissions via the cable architecture that had evolved from its beginnings as Community Antenna Television. Cable then surpassed its original mandate to bring television reception to rural or obstructed areas and became a means for delivering new types of programming through specialty channels for sports, news, movies, home shopping, weather, and so on, and through pay-per-view channels. Cable also has the potential to deliver a standardized means of electronic health insurance claim filing, and personalized health information systems are being tested that use terminals in the home to connect consumers to a health care databank that advises customers about self care based on their personal medical records. www.nap.edu /readingroom/books/wpni3/ch-33.html   (8604 words)

Cable Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) The headend is the beginning point at which microwave or satellite signals are received, assembled, and transmitted by the distribution network (Baldwin and McVoy, 1998). Cable companies use fiber optics in their trunks to take signals to coaxial distribution lines, in turn link to drop cables to a subscriber's household (Johnson 1994). This coaxial cable uses approximately a half of its bandwidth to transmit the traditional cable channels, and the other half is used to transmit other signals such as Internet Service, telephone service, digital television, and pay-per-view movies. www.sru.edu /depts/cisba/comm/banks/CA480/bfj6491   (840 words)

US CODE: Title 47,534. Carriage of local commercial television signals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Such signals shall be viewable via cable on all television receivers of a subscriber which are connected to a cable system by a cable operator or for which a cable operator provides a connection. A cable operator required to carry more than one signal of a qualified low power station under this subsection may do so, subject to approval by the franchising authority pursuant to section 531 of this title, by placing such additional station on public, educational, or governmental channels not in use for their designated purposes. A local commercial television station that is denied carriage or channel positioning or repositioning in accordance with this section by a cable operator may obtain review of such denial by filing a complaint with the Commission. www4.law.cornell.edu /uscode/47/534.html   (1599 words)

PPC - Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Television channel from another city which is imported and carried locally by a cable television system. FCC rules prohibiting a cable operator from importing a network's broadcast signals from a distant television market when they are available simultaneously from a local network affiliate. The number of homes actually served by cable in a given area, expressed as a percentage of homes passed (cable penetration in November 1998 was 67.4 percent nationwide). www.ppc-online.com /glossary.cfm   (2783 words)

Internal Revenue Bulletin - August 11, 2003 - Rev. Proc. 2003-63 Thus, for example, if a taxpayer has a fiber optic cable containing 20 bundles of 6 optic fibers (120 total optic fibers) and connects 2 optic fibers to a node, the fiber optic cable (including all 120 optic fibers) is a component of the unit of property. Although a fiber optic cable may contain more optic fibers than are necessary to serve a single node, all optic fibers in the unit of property are considered placed in service when the node is ready and available as described above and connected to at least one optic fiber in the fiber optic cable. A change in a taxpayer's depreciation treatment of cable television distribution systems (as described in section 4 of this revenue procedure) is a change in method of accounting to which §§ 446(e) and 481 apply. www.irs.gov /irb/2003-32_IRB/ar18.html   (1761 words)

Cable television headend - TheBestLinks.com - Headend, Frequency, Internet, Microwave, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) The cable TV headend will normally have several large, television receive-only satellite television dishes for reception of cable/satellite TV networks such as ESPN, CNN, or HBO (examples); a dedicated, non-movable dish is required for each satellite that the cable TV utility wishes to receive cable channels off of for distribution over its system. For reception of signals off several adjacent satellites, a larger non-parabolic multi-satellite dish (such as the Torus) that can see up to 3 satellites is often used. Once received, cable television signals are often pre-amplified and then mixed into the cable system's channel numbering scheme using a frequency multiplexer. www.thebestlinks.com /Headend.html   (413 words)

[No title] In its letter, WPXW indicated that it had acquired the equipment necessary for the station to deliver a good quality signal to the cable systems headend and was ready to install it on the cable system's tower on a mutually acceptable date. The 1992 Cable Act provides that a cable operator is not required to carry a local commercial television station that does not deliver a good quality signal to the principal headend of a cable system. Because the cable operator is in the best position to know whether a given station is providing a good quality signal to the system's principal headend, we believe the initial burden of demonstrating the lack of good quality signal appropriately falls on the cable operator. www.fcc.gov /Bureaus/Cable/Orders/1999/da991349.txt   (1286 words)

Coaxial cable/twisted pair cable telecommunications network architecture - Patent 6546016 In a hybrid fiber coaxial cable arrangement the facility connecting headend 63 and hub 62 is typically an optical fiber and in a conventional cable television system comprises a coaxial cable. Furthermore, the tap and drop cable for television service may be over the same strand or a different strand and may enter the premises in a different entry way than the drop wire for telephone. Copper twisted pair and/or coaxial cable may be utilized to connect the protector block and a CATV headend or a telephone Main Distribution Frame (MDF) as the main transmission medium in the local loop. www.freepatentsonline.com /6546016.html   (16704 words)

Cable Headend Infrastructure Market Opportunities, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2005 to 2011 Continuing consolidation with in the cable industry worldwide means a small number of operators own a majority of cable television systems and account for a significant portion of the capital spending made by cable television system operators. The headend is the central location where the multi-channel signal is initially received, converted, and allocated to specific channels for analog distribution. Cable headend markets at $2.9 billion in 2005 are anticipated to reach $10.3 billion by 2011. www.marketresearch.com /product/display.asp?productid=1200222&partnerid=846445143   (407 words)

The Cable Center Located at the cable television system headend or distribution hub, a CMTS provides complementary functionality to the cable modems to enable data connectivity to a wide-area network. A cable system’s procedure of carrying the signals of television stations on its various channels. A cable modem in which a portion of the higher-layer processing is performed by an external device, in particular, by a PC. www.cablecenter.org /education/library/glossaryC.cfm   (2990 words)

CableLabs® Re-Qualifies Motorola High-Speed Data Headend Equipment Louisville, Colorado, July 26, 2000 – Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (CableLabs®) announced today that it has re-qualified Motorola for its cable modem termination system (CMTS) after further testing conducted as part of its most recent certification wave. The cable headend or CMTS qualification process parallels another CableLabs-managed process called CableLabs® Certified™ that certifies cable modems for retail sale. Founded in 1988 by members of the cable television industry, Cable Television Laboratories is a non-profit research and development consortium that is dedicated to pursuing new cable telecommunications technologies and to helping its cable operator members integrate those advancements into their business objectives. www.cablelabs.com /news/pr/2000/2000_07_26.html   (362 words)

Jones Encyclopedia of Media & Technology Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Cable television originated during the early days of television broadcasting as a method to deliver programming in remote regions and dense urban areas where multiple signals and buildings interfered with reception. Cable television networks are programming services or channels that can be provided by a private cable system operator to its subscribers. Fiber optic cable is the terrestrial media that provides the highest possible capacity and speed for long distance transmissions in telecommunications, cable television, and other data networks. www.jonesencyclo.com /trends.cfm   (10851 words)

IEC: On-Line Education: WPF: Cable Modems A given geographic or metropolitan region may have a few cable television headend locations that are connected together by fiber links. A typical headend is equipped with satellite receivers, fiber connections to other regional headend locations, and upstream RF receivers for pay-per-view and data services. A super hub is a cable headend location with additional temperature-controlled facilities to house a variety of computer servers, which are necessary to run cable data networks. www.iec.org /online/tutorials/cable_mod/topic03.html   (726 words)

Northland Cable Television HD/DVR Help Unfortunately some TV manufacturers don't integrate this industry standard into their television designs. At this point you should be able to access cable again. Like some other appliances in the home such as your refrigerator, the set-top needs to remain on at all times to connect with the cable plant headend for continued exchange and refresh of data. www.northlandcabletv.com /custHelp/dvrHelp.asp?area=&office=&atype=   (439 words)

Cable Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Broadcasting and Cable is the leading voice of the television industry serving the broadcastcable and syndication communities. Basic cable service is the standard package of services that cable companies provide to all subscribers in their service areas. cable industry is strongly committed to addressing parents' concerns about what they and their children see on television indecency and violence on television is based on the www.monna.com /art/Television/Cable_Television   (672 words)

Mid-Iowa News Cable television companies and competitive telecommunications carriers (CLEC) who are over building the local telephone companies in larger markets to provide competitive local telephone service have driven the shortage of fiber optic cable. The Home Connect equipment for Gilman cable television headend is in and we are waiting for the two-way upgrade of the local distribution system to be completed. We will be deploying additional systems, especially in our 9 cable television communites where DSL is not available. www.midiowa.com /newmidia/news_archives/june2000.htm   (1554 words)

Resume of Kris Shenk Information Technology professional with 20 years of progressive experience in the cable television industry, with last 12 years dedicated to a Fortune 250 company. Cable television specific systems: Responsible for database administration and maintenance of Cable Services Group (CSG) Cable Billing System and Subscriber Database, Advanced Customer Service Representative (ACSR), Zenith, Pioneer and Scientific Atlanta Addressable Controller systems (both analog and digital services) and nCube Video-on-Demand systems. Managed complete redesign and renovation of 200 channel cable television Headend signal control facility to support growth and channel expansion. members.cox.net /kshenk/resume.htm   (625 words)

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