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Broadband Cable TV Access Networks: From Technologies to Applications
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by Shlomo Ovadia
Sales Rank: 338910
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List Price: $85.00
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Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR March 26, 2001
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0130864218
ISBN-13: 978-0130864215
Product Dimensions:
9 x 6.6 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Product Review
Cable television networks, since they have an enormous capacity to transmit analog and digital information and reach into almost every North American home, are being called upon to serve as the infrastructure for all sorts of consumer services. In Broadband Cable TV Access Networks: From Technologies to Applications, Intel Corporation expert Shlomo Ovadia explains the operation of cable television networks for the benefit of network designers, operations engineers, and people engaged in designing cable modems and other equipment. The approach in this book is detailed and specialized, but the clear writing style, attention to detail, and eagerness to explain how principles extrapolate out to customer services make it outstanding.
Ovadia approaches the subject through electrical engineering and electronics principles, illustrating explanations with circuit diagrams, oscilloscope traces, equations, and plots. Explanations of fundamentals are accompanied by discussions with block diagrams, and are dissected in ever greater detail.
While this book has done a great job of explaining, from a technical point of view, the increasing overlap of the cable television network with the switched telephone network and the Internet, be sure to read Telecommunications Convergence for a more (but not entirely) business-oriented look at the issue. --David Wall
Topics covered: Cable television networks and why they work, with emphasis on how they can be adapted for all sorts of last-mile broadband applications. Fundamentals are covered, such as lightwave transmitters and receivers, optical fiber amplifiers, RF digital quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) modems, and the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) protocol.
Book Info
(Pearson Education) Offers a look at the future of broadband cable television access networks, covering a number of topics related to the next generation of systems and products. Includes coverage of HFC cable networks, comparing them to the competition: DSL, FTTL, DBS, and MMDS. Also covers hardware and software architecture and applications. DLC: Cable TV access.
Customer Reviews & Comments
I am working in MRV Communications in the field of FFTx Receivers Transceivers design, focusing in the analog side of the system video transport. I had purchased the book and enjoyed reading it. Indeed, it is a great system engineering book covering a broad spectrum of technical subjects which I have a lot of interest. It broadened my knowledge on the arena of CATV which was new to me. (I came from Israel from the Satellite Communications field). It is a recommended book to any communications engineer, component engineer and system engineer dealing with fiber optics data communications and video transport. It covers all design aspects in all perspectives, system wise and component wise. It provides a broad review, showing the affects of RF chains and , optical links imperfections on a QAM signal in most scientific analytic and professional way. The book is structured as a zoom-in, taking the reader from a broad picture of definitions, system architectures and topologies such as HFC, PON, zooming into each building block requirements and constrains such as optics CWDM WDM optical none linearity, pre-distortions, CATV receivers topologies , specs and optimized solution. Additionally it covers the aspects of protocols such as DOCSIS and CATV standards showing how to approach to system design, understanding its requirements in order to reach the proper design. The books provides block diagrams, schemes plots and conclusion to each chapter subject. Indeed Dr. Shlomo Ovadia did here a huge effort and a great job. This book is must have in any technical library. Avi Brillant Senior Design Engineer Luninent-Inc 20550 Nordhoff Street Chatsworth CA-91311 Cell 818-266-7330
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