Week 10-3 CATV Technical Set-Up Basic

Cable Television
The technicalities beyond the audio

and video….
Agenda
• Brief Review to CATV
• Terms defined
• Principles of Operations
• Basic Infrastructure of CATV
• Designing a CATV systems
• Basic block Diagram of CATV systems
Objectives
• Describe the components of a typical cable
system.
• Identify the basic infrastructure.
• Describe the working components of a
typical analog cable system.
• Describe the working components of a
typical Digital cable system.
Brief Review in Cable Television
• Cable television is wired

communication to the home.
• A cable television system
is a communication system
that distributes broadcast
and satellite delivered
programming by means
of coaxial and/or fiber optic
cable to people's homes.
Illustration: Chan, Chin Bong
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Cable System Benefits
• Cable is cost-effective because “broadcast”
architecture is cascaded to users.
• Cable supports different services:
– Analog video
– Digital video
– Voice
– Data
• Inexpensive high-speed Internet access
enables the application of advanced SOHO
and teleworker deployments.
Terminologies
• Headend - The system that gathers content, selects
and processes it, and retransmits it through the
distribution system.
• Distribution Systems - Getting the signals around
to the viewer via a core network, access network,
and home media network.
• Cable TV Viewing Devices - Cable TV systems
may be setup to allow viewing TV programs on
traditional analog TV and other types of devices
(such as multimedia PCs and mobile telephones).
Terms
• Off Air Receivers – Receives, selects, and
demodulates local broadcast channels.
• Encoders – Digitizes media (if in analog
form), compresses, and formats the data and
control signals to be transmitted.
• Channel Modulators – Converts the digital
video signals into modulated RF signals.
What is a Cable System?
• CATV is a Cable systems were originally

built to extend the reach of TV signals and
improve over-the-air TV reception.
• It is a form of transmission shared TV
signals.
The 4 types of CATV Networks
The broadcast One-way CATV
Generic CATV Architecture
Cable System Components
Subscriber Drops
Designing a CATV Network
• It is difficult to design an CATV network systems
• Intensive computational work.
• Number of possible solutions is very large.
• CATV network design
• To help designer to reduce the overhead of computational
work.
• To track the signal quality and to make sure the end-to-end
signal quality is feasible.
• Unable to suggest or create a good design of CATV system
• The quality of design is still relied on the experience and
expertise of the designers.
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The Analog Block Diagram
What is Combiners?
• Channel Signal Combiners – Combines
multiple RF channels onto a single
transmission line keeping the signals from
one RF channel from pushing back into a
transmitter.
Digital turn Around
The Digital basic Block Diagram
Basic Fundamental Infrastructure
• The Satellite receiving Infrastructure
– The LNB
• A low-noise block downconverter (LNB) is the
receiving device mounted on satellite dishes used
for satellite TV reception, which collects the radio
waves from the dish and converts them to a signal
which is sent through a cable to the receiver inside
the building.
• The LNB compose of the following
– The Low Noise Amplifier; and
– Frequency Down Converter
What is exactly a headend?
What is Distribution Network?
• The distribution network is the part of a cable
television system that connects the headend of the
system (video and media sources) to the
customer’s equipment.
• Traditionally, the local connection has been
composed of a coaxial cable that provides one-
way transmission of a maximum of one hundred
and twenty 6 MHz RF television signals or
approximately one hundred 8 MHz RF channels.
What composed the distribution?
• Core Network – Connects the headend to
branches (such as neighborhoods) within
the TV system.
• Access Network – Coordinates how homes
connect to the TV distribution system.
• Home Media Network – Distributes media
and data to devices within the home.
Basic Network Distribution
Taps
What is (home) End Devices?
• Cable television end user devices adapt RF
channels on a cable connection to a format
that is accessible by the end user.
• The key functions for end user devices
include interfacing to the cable network,
selecting and decoding channels, processing
the media into a form usable by humans and
providing controls that allow the user to
interact with the device.
What are the prescribed End devices?
• Network Interface - allows it to receive analog broadcast,
digital broadcast, digital control and data channels.
• RF Tuner - The device must select the appropriate RF
channel and separate out the component parts (video,
audio, data)
• Middleware Client – Software that is installed in the device
that allows it to understand and communicate with the
services of the cable TV system.
• Media Processing – The capability of the device to decode
media that is in different formats such as MPEG-2, MPEG-
4, MP3, and AAC.
• Display and Audio Capability - The media is then
converted (rendered) into a form that can be displayed or
heard by the end user. This may be a mix of resolutions
(SD or HD) and electrical formats (analog video, HDMI).
Receiving CATV Topologies
Tree and Branch Topology
In Line Amplifiers
Common Practice
HFC Architecture
Inclusion of Cable Internet

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Cable Television

The technicalities beyond the audio

• Cable television is wired

• CATV is a Cable systems were originally

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