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Hybrid Fiber Coaxial (HFC) Telephony
White Papers One of the most promising technologies for telephony service providers, particularly those who are also interested in providing comprehensive residential and small-business services including data and video, is hybrid fiber/coax (HFC).
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Using Proxies To Enhance TCP Performance Over Hybrid Fiber Coaxial Networks
White Papers Using cable modems that operate at several hundred times the speed of conventional telephone modems, many cable operators are beginning to offer World Wide Web access and other data services to residential subscribers.
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Remote Switching Video Content
White Papers Broadband pipes are long stretches of coaxial cable strategically placed in close range of a collection of residential homes that in turn provide easy/cheap connectivity to the signals they carry. Modern day broadband operators have combined the...
[July 21, 2003, 18:00]
Secure Managed VPN Services For Cable Operators
White Papers Cable operators can deliver these services over current coaxial or hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) networks and network equipment that is compliant with DOCSIS.this white paper discusses this topic in detail.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Alliance Promotes Networked Digital Home
News The purpose of the alliance is to develop standards and promote the use of coaxial cable to send high-quality video, voice and data between a variety of household devices, such as TVs, digital video recorders and PCs.
[January 6, 2004, 12:05]
Network Architectures Combine Broadband, Data, Voice Services
White Papers The rapid deployment of fiber-optic technology into traditional hybrid fiber/coaxial (HFC) cable-TV systems is transforming cable multiple-service operators (MSOs) into full telecommunications service providers.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Cable Applications: Converging The Network At Layer 2 While Delivering Profitable Voice, Video, And Data Services
White Papers In recent years, cable operators have delivered many new profitable data services to subscribers by upgrading their hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) networks. By mid-2003, the total number of cable modem subscribers had grown to more than 27 million...
[September 8, 2004, 3:00]
Modem Technology Vs. HFC Ingress Noise
White Papers The subject of ingress on the coaxial transport (either accidental or intentional) is of the largest concern when considering the transportation of telephony services on a Hybrid Fiber Coax (HFC) system.
[March 22, 2005, 2:00]
Cisco Broadband Local Integrated Services Solution For Cable
White Papers Cable operators today are looking for new revenue opportunities that make use of their investments in the upgraded hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) plant. Offering a suite of telephony, video, and Internet data services creates powerful new service...
[August 16, 2004, 3:00]
Upstream FEC Errors And SNR As Ways To Ensure Data Quality And Throughput
White Papers To operate a High Speed Data (HSD) network over a Hybrid Fiber/Coaxial (HFC) cable plant requires a significant level of quality control to ensure data integrity and the highest level of data throughput.
[October 6, 2006, 1:00]
Cable X-Perts "Connecting You To The World" With BusinessWorks Gold
White Papers Founded in a garage in 1989, Cable X-Perts has grown to be the largest supplier of coaxial cables to the amateur radio market. Cable X-Perts has been using BusinessWorks since its inception. As the company grew more sophisticated, it needed more...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
A Simulation-Based Study Of TCP Dynamics Over HFC Networks
White Papers New broadband access technologies such as Hybrid Fiber Coaxial (HFC) are likely to provide fast and cost effective support to a variety of applications including Video on Demand (VoD), inter-active computer games, and internet-type applications...
[August 16, 2003, 5:22]
Advancing Return Technology……Bit By Bit
White Papers Traditional HFC systems have implemented the return path, a 5-40 MHz bandpass in North America, using bi-directional RF amplifiers in the coaxial plant, and a return path laser in the fiber optic node, driving a return fiber for the optical trunking.
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Convergence
White Papers Video arrived via the airwaves and coaxial cable, while voice and data arrived via separate phone lines. In the past, businesses, service providers and individual consumers thought of voice, video and data as separate entities whose paths would...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Fiber-Optic Technology
White Papers Fiber-optic communications is based on the principle that light in a glass medium can carry more information over longer distances than electrical signals can carry in a copper or coaxial medium. The purity of today's glass fiber, combined with...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Options For High-Efficiency HFC Return Architectures
White Papers The first part of this paper ("Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing in Hybrid-Fiber Coax Systems") addressed how DWDM technology can be used to extend the capabilities of the forward path of an existing Hybrid Fiber/Coaxial (HFC) CATV network.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Closed-Circuit TV Over IP
White Papers When Cisco first began using CCTV for surveillance, analog cameras at building entrances and other high-security locations sent analog video signals over coaxial cable to video cassette recorders (VCRs) that recorded onto tape.
[March 4, 2005, 23:00]
Digital Optical RF Transport: Indoor Wireless Applications
White Papers While coaxial cable can be used for short distances, there is a high degree of loss due to attenuation. For indoor wireless applications, current methods of RF extension, such as twisted pair, coax and microwave are less than optimal.
[January 8, 2004, 23:29]
All About Cabling
White Papers Thin coax looks like the copper coaxial cabling that's often used to connect a VCR to a TV set. The two most popular types of network cabling are twisted-pair (also known as 10BaseT) and thin coax (also known as 10Base2).
[November 3, 2006, 1:19]
Structured Connectivity Solutions
White Papers In the late 1970’s when Ethernet was under development, one of the few readily available cables deemed suitable for a data transmission rate of 10Mbit/s was a screened 50 ohm coaxial cable, used extensively for closed circuit television applications.
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
