Broadband Cable Access Networks, Volume 5: The HFC Plant

This book 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. Included is an online component consisting of spreadsheets that were used in developing the material presented in the book.

• 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.

這本書專注於寬頻分配和系統架構，並集中在實用概念上，讓讀者能夠進行自己的設計、改進和故障排除工作。其目標是提升大量設計和建造寬頻有線電纜系統的人員的技能，以及那些維護和故障排除的人員。許多需要學習這些技能的技術人員從信號創建到傳輸，再到客戶端點的接收和處理，都需要設計、維護和服務HFC系統。此外，數據/語音和視頻專家在應對自己獨特服務的細節之前，需要掌握和參考HFC設計和分配的基礎知識。這本書對於所有有線電纜工程師都是一本必備參考資料，無論是專門設計和維護HFC分配系統的工程師，還是主要關注數據/語音技術和視頻技術的工程師。書中還包含一個在開發書中所述材料時使用的電子組件，其中包括試算表。