Book description
Broadband Cable Access Networks focuses on broadband distribution and systems architecture and concentrates on practical concepts that will allow the reader to do their own design, improvement, and troubleshooting work. The objective is to enhance the skill sets of a large population that designs and builds broadband cable plants, as well as those maintaining and troubleshooting it. A large cross-section of technical personnel who need to learn these skills design, maintain, and service HFC systems from signal creation through transmission to reception and processing at the customer end point. In addition, data/voice and video specialists need to master and reference the basics of HFC design and distribution before contending with the intricacies of their own unique services. This book serves as an essential reference to all cable engineers—those who specifically design and maintain the HFC distribution plant as well as those primarily concerned with data/voice technology as well as video technology.- Concentrates on practical concepts that will allow the user to do his own design, improvement, and trouble-shooting work.
- Prepares cable engineers and technicians to work with assurance as they face the latest developments and future directions.
- Concise and tightly focused, allowing readers to easily find answers to questions about an idea or concept they are developing in this area.
Table of contents
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Chapter 1. Linear Broadband Distribution Systems
- Chapter 2. Coaxial RF Technology
- Chapter 3. Coaxial Distribution System Design
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Chapter 4. Linear Fiber-Optic Signal Transportation
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Optical Basics
- 4.3. Multimode Optical Fibers
- 4.4. Single-Mode Optical Fibers
- 4.5. Network Passives
- 4.6. Linear Optical Transmitters
- 4.7. Optical Amplifiers
- 4.8. Optical Receivers
- 4.9. Interactions among Transmitters, Fibers, and Receivers
- 4.10. End-to-End Fiber-Optic Link Performance
- 4.11. Summary
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Chapter 5. Wavelength Division Multiplexing
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Wavelength Multiplexing: WWDM, CWDM, and DWDM
- 5.3. Components for WDM Systems
- 5.4. WDM-Specific Design Factors
- 5.5. Crosstalk Mechanisms
- 5.6. CSO Due to Transmitter Chirp Combined with Imperfect Channel Flatness
- 5.7. Degradation in Shared-Detector, Multi-Wavelength Systems
- 5.8. Summary
- Chapter 6. Linear Microwave Signal Transportation
- Chapter 7. End-to-End Performance
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Chapter 8. Upstream Issues
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. The Two-Way Node
- 8.3. Downstream and Upstream Frequency Partitioning
- 8.4. Group Delay of Diplex Filters
- 8.5. Splitting the Node in the Upstream Direction
- 8.6. Return Signal Level Issues
- 8.7. Optional Ways to Specify Return Lasers
- 8.8. Characteristics of Return Lasers
- 8.9. Return Path Combining at the Headend
- 8.10. Spurious Signals in the Return Path
- 8.11. Characteristics of a Composite Reverse Signal
- 8.12. Reaction of Active Components to Signal Characteristics
- 8.13. Common Path Distortion
- 8.14. Return Path Interference Mitigation Techniques
- 8.15. Upstream Signal Power Apportionment
- 8.16. Practical Level Setting
- 8.17. Summary
- Chapter 9. Architectural Requirements and Techniques
- Chapter 10. Architectural Elements and Examples
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Chapter 11. Emerging Architectures
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Analog and Digital Optical Modulation
- 11.3. Combining Analog and Digital Transmission on the Same Fiber
- 11.4. Bidirectional Transmission
- 11.5. Fiber-Deep Architectures
- 11.6. Classifying Fiber-to-the-Home Systems
- 11.7. Distance Limitations
- 11.8. Limitations on Analog Transmission Distance
- 11.9. Limitations on Digital Transmission Distance
- 11.10. Low-Frequency Content Removal in Digital Transmission
- 11.11. Summary
- Chapter 12. Network Reliability and Availability
- Appendix . Channel Allocation
- Glossary
- Index
Product information
- Title: Broadband Cable Access Networks
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2008
- Publisher(s): Morgan Kaufmann
- ISBN: 9780080922140
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