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Broadband Cable TV Access Networks: From Technologies to Applications
(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. 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.
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#2 written by Avi-Brillant 1 year ago
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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
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#3 written by Anonymous 1 year ago
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It is very refreshing to read “Broadband Cable TV Access Networks” written by Dr. Ovadia. It might be more appropriately entitled as “Broadband HFC Access Networks”. It covers the historic CATV industry, the lightwave transport of video signals (analog and digital Hybrid Fiber Coax, HFC system), the internet on cable mode, the two-way communication between subscribers and service providers and future broadband network using cable infrastructures. Although it is published in 2001, it contains very updated overview of technologies, in particular, related to product ideas for video, voice, data and internet applications. As a matter of fact some of the technologies are still being developed and improved in startup companies.Shlomo brings all relevant technologies together in this book with the math rigor that brings credence to the CATV/HFC/Access Network industry. It is descriptive and well written that new entrants to the industry can quickly grasp the essence of the technologies and apply them without the math rigor. However, since the industry comprises of cross disciplinary knowledge and practices, a solid understanding through rigorous math treatments is absolutely necessary to create further modification, improvements, innovations and better services to end users. Dr. Ovadia also includes an updated reference lists after every major subject for readers to further study and details for system and component (optical and electronic) designs. As such, this book serves as good reference book for cable operators, designers, engineering under graduate and graduate students. Although DWDM application in the HFC network is thoroughly described, the industry is looking to CWDM to continue to bring the product cost down and bring more services to the end users. As well, video over Ethernet is a viable trend because of its inherent low cost and general technological trend. Combination of CWDM and video over Ethernet are the two subjects that need to be covered if a revision is in order. -
#4 written by Anonymous 1 year ago
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I only wish I was !! The book shows great promise, it introduces it’s topics historically and thoroughly. It gives insight to the new technologies, and background on existing ones that readers may need to understand better.Here’s my only beef : Many, many pages of the 450 are devoted to highly technical math formulas, to the point of having me pass right over them. Calculus and trigonometry experts are encouraged to look here. Others, like myself, ( although I was a good math student with algebra skills) simply will not want to dig this deep. And I mean deep.This shortened the book for me, however, so the parts that I needed or wanted to know about were explained nicely. I sorta wish that I could return half the book, and keep the other half, because it is a strong, specific book. That is both it’s strength and weakness. -
#5 written by Anonymous 1 year ago
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This book provides an excellent, clearly written primer for novice and techie alike. The organization of the book takes a reader through a nice, high-level overview including relevant historical information dowin into the detail of the standards, all the while providing clean, well-thought examples which serve to clarify difficult subject matter. I bought this book needing to quickly come up-to-speed on the particulars of a broadband, HFC network and this book certainly satisfies that need. All in all, a great addition to my tech library. -
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The book “Broadband Cable TV Access Networks” by Dr. Ovadia presents both a high level overview and low level details of CATV technology. It is a well organized system engineering handbook for cable TV network. It gives an excellent introduction to the overall CATV architecture. The introduction is very descriptive and easy to understand. And then extends to rigorous technical details in transmission technologies (over both fiber and coax cable), RF and digital transceiver design, cable modem protocols, software architecture and applications. The book can be a good tutorial for people interested in CATV technology and a good reference for engineers working in the area.