Digital Basics for Cable TV Systems
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (725 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0137439156 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Whether you're a technician or an engineer, this book will help you maximize your digital system's performance - and your own.. Friendly and authoritative, it's all you need to know to deliver digital services with maximum quality and reliability. If you install, upgrade, or maintain digital or mixed digital/analog systems, Digital Basics for Cable Television Systems is your complete guide to this new world. You'll learn how to measure digital signal average and burst power, and the impact of distortion, noise, and interference on digital signals. With this book's simple illustrations, definitions, and examples, you'll find it easy to master key digital CATV concepts such as signal coding/decoding digital modulation, and multiplexing. Digital Basics for Cable Television Systems is also a great reference, with a convenient glossary of digital terminology, a series of performance measurement maps, a test equipment survey, exercises with answers, and much more
THOMAS has worked for Hewlett-Packard for over 25 years on measurement equipment definition and application for the cable television industry. He is author of Cable Television Proof-of-Performance: A Practical Guide to Cable TV Compliance Measurements Using a Spectrum Analyzer. He currently writes application and training materials for use in several RF communications areas, including cellular radio. . JEFFREY L. FRANCIS EDGINGTON specia
Tremendous resource for Analog and Digital Cable Test! A Customer Digital Basics for Cable TV Systems is an extremely valuable source for learning about how Analog and Digital data is created and tested. The differences between Analog and Digital channels is described using very basic concepts. Complex modulation and measurement considerations are explained in an easy-to-understand format, with terrific examples. The test set-up procedures definitely help anyone who needs to learn how to test Cable systems with Analog and/or Digital Channels.Explanations of . orbops said Great intro to the analog vs digital world. An excellent introductory book describing the characteristics of digital transmission. I picked up this book based on the review from the Boston, MA reader with the expectation that it would provide me with the basics of digital transmission theory.The topics are organized in logical order with the basics of signal transmission, conversion from analog to digital data streams, digital modulation, error correction, power measurements, and interference sources.What really impressed me was the sim. Unvaluable help in transiting to digital This book should be the reference for any engineer involved in todays transition into the digital TV world.It goes to the guts of analog and digital signal processing and its complex interactions. It really helps us in setting up -and mantain healthy- our daily workplace: the citadin HFC network.You can't expect less from an Hewlett-Packard book.
From the Back Cover 74391-4 Make the transition to digital CATV: the complete, easy-to-read guide! Cable TV is rapidly moving from the familiar world of analog signals to a new digital world where yesterday's rules for optimizing performance no longer apply. You'll learn how to measure digital signal power and burst power, and the impact of distortion, noise and interference on digital signals. Simple fundamentals of digital signals and transport. Digital signal composition features, such as adaptive equalizati