Carrier Aggregation

1. An assembly of one or more insulated conductors, or optical fibers, or a combination of both, within an enveloping jacket.
Note 1: A cable is constructed so that the conductors or fibers may be used singly or in groups.
Note 2: Certain types of communications cables, especially long submarine cables but also terrestrial cables, whether the communications media are… (Read More →)

A cable that is ready for installation in specific applications and usually terminated with connectors.

For a cabled single-mode optical fiber under specified length, bend, and deployment conditions, the wavelength at which the fiber's second order mode is attenuated a measurable amount when compared to a multimode reference fiber or to a tightly bent single-mode fiber.

The ratio of cable conductor or cable pair kilometers in use to total cable conductor or cable pair kilometers available in the plant, e.g., the ratio of revenue producing cable pair kilometers in use to total cable pair kilometers in plant. [47 CFR Pt.36-A]

Synonym [in cable television] headend.

See sheath.

In CATV systems, a bidirectional high-speed digital communications interface, located on a subscriber's or user's premises, and used, for example, for Internet access or other digital communications.

A fixed or mobile station used for the transmission of television and related audio signals, signals of standard and FM broadcast stations, signals of instructional television fixed stations, and cablecasting from the point of reception to a terminal point from which the signals are distributed to the public. [47CFR]

A broadband communications technology in which multiple television channels, as well as audio and data signals, may be transmitted either one way or bidirectionally through an often hybrid (fiber and coaxial) distribution system to a single or to multiple specific locations. CATV originated in areas where good reception of direct broadcast TV was not possible. Now CATV also consists of… (Read More →)