Modern cable television technology video, voice and data communications
Fully updated, revised, and expanded, this second edition of Modern Cable Television Technology addresses the significant changes undergone by cable since 1999--including, most notably, its continued transformation from a system for delivery of television to a scalable-bandwidth platform for a broad...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
c2004.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed |
| Colección: | The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627078706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Modern Cable Television Technology: Video, Voice, and Data Communications; Copyright Page; Foreword; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part 1: Once Over Lightly; Chapter 1. Introduction to Cable Television; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Technology-Related Regulatory Issues; 1.3 The Development of the Cable Television Industry and Its Services; 1.4 Cable Network Design; 1.5 Coaxial System Limitations; 1.6 The Introduction of Fiber Optics; 1.7 High-Level Architecture Changes; 1.8 Video Signal Security and Selective Service Delivery Issues; 1.9 Consumer Equipment Interface Issues
- 1.10 SummaryEndnotes; Part 2: The Signals; Chapter 2. Analog Television; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Baseband Monochrome Video and Monaural Audio; 2.3 Modulation; 2.4 Modern Analog Television; 2.5 Signal Quality and Customer Expectations; 2.6 Other Television Systems; 2.7 Summary; Endnotes; Chapter 3. Digitally Compressed Television; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Broadcast Digital Television; 3.3 Digital Video Compression; 3.4 Digital Audio Compression; 3.5 Digital Audio-Video Transport; 3.6 Digital Transmission; 3.7 Digital Television Standards; 3.8 Summary; Endnotes; Chapter 4. Digital Modulation
- 4.1 Introduction4.2 Modulation Technology; 4.3 Forms of Spectrum Sharing; 4.4 Measuring Digitally Modulated Signals; 4.5 Summary; Endnotes; Chapter 5. Cable Networking Protocols; 5.1 Introduction to Protocols; 5.2 The DOCSIS Protocol for Cable Modems; 5.3 Non-DOCSIS Protocols; 5.4 Summary; Endnotes; Chapter 6. Cable Telephony; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Modern Telephone System Architecture; 6.3 The Telephone Network Digital Hierarchy; 6.4 Elements of a Cable Telephony System; 6.5 Network Engineering: Quality of Service; 6.6 IP Telephony; 6.7 The 911 System; 6.8 DS1/E1 Transport on IP Networks
- 6.9 SummaryEndnotes; Part 3: Headends; Chapter 7. Signal Reception; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Off-Air Reception; 7.3 Satellite Reception; 7.4 Other Methods of Receiving Programming at Headends; 7.5 Summary; Endnotes; Chapter 8. Headend Signal Processing; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 SignaI Processors; 8.3 Modulation; 8.4 Phase Locking of Carriers; 8.5 Demodulation; 8.6 TV Stereo; 8.7 Satellite Earth Station Receiving Equipment; 8.8 Digital Video Interfaces; 8.9 Signal Handling in Headends; 8.10 Ad Insertion; 8.11 Video On Demand and Digital Ad Insertion; 8.12 Summary; Endnotes
- Chapter 9. Headend Operation9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Cable Television Band Plan; 9.3 Headend RF Management; 9.4 Headend Fiber-Optics Management; 9.5 Signal Quality Tests; 9.6 Summary; Endnotes; Part 4: Broadband Distribution Systems; Chapter 10. Coaxial RF Technology; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Coaxial Cable; 10.3 Amplifiers; 10.4 Passive Coaxial Components; 10.5 Power Supplies; 10.6 Summary; Endnotes; Chapter 11. Coaxial Distribution System Design; 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 Carrier-to-Noise Ratio; 11.3 Carrier to Distortion; 11.4 Noise-Distortion Trade-Off; 11.5 System Powering
- 11.6 Signal Level Management
