Fiber to the serving area: telephone-like star architecture for CATV

David M. Fellows

doi:10.1117/12.134945

1 February 1992 Fiber to the serving area: telephone-like star architecture for CATV

David M. Fellows

Proceedings Volume 1578, Fiber Networks for Telephony and CATV; (1992) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.134945
Event: OE Fiber, 1991, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

CATV systems traditionally use a tree and branch architecture to bring up to 550 MHz of analog bandwidth to every home in a franchise area. This changed slightly with the advent of AM fiber optic equipment, as fiber optics were used in an overlay fashion to reduce coaxial amplifier cascades and improve subscriber quality and reliability. Within the last year, fiber has economically replaced coaxial trunking. The resulting fiber to the serving area architecture combines fiber and coaxial stars for a network that looks much like the carrier serving area architectures used by telephone companies.

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David M. Fellows "Fiber to the serving area: telephone-like star architecture for CATV", Proc. SPIE 1578, Fiber Networks for Telephony and CATV, (1 February 1992); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.134945

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