 signmeuptooThank you YankeesPremium
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NanoParticle
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| What does a cableco's CO look like? So some of you have posted what Telco COs look like, and you talk about the hardware used, but what about cable companies, and what do they call a cable companies "CO"?
Also, those green lighted boxes on telephone polls every so many miles, are those where the copper connects to optical fiber? And what mode(s) are used, or rather, is it multimode and what wavelengths? What are those boxes called?
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 LazarusSlavin AwayPremium
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Dickinson, ND | We call ours the headend. As for pictures I will see if the guys will let me take a few. |
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signmeuptooThank you YankeesPremium
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NanoParticle
kudos:4 | reply to signmeuptoo
I should rephrase the CU "connects" to fiber, I meant "changes". I AM a laserjocky, after all... Brewster's angle anyone? |
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 jmichPremium
join:2001-08-28
Toms River, NJ | reply to signmeuptoo
The green boxes are power supplies/UPS's that power the nodes. The fiber is always single mode running at 1310 or 1550 nm. |
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Do a google image search for cable headend. You'll see some good ones and bad ones. I'll see if I can find and upload some pictures of headends I've helped build in the past. |
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Here are a few pictures that I have from some smaller headends. |
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signmeuptooThank you YankeesPremium
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NanoParticle
kudos:4 | Cool stuff! |
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 bbuchananPremium
join:2004-02-05
Peterborough, ON | reply to cablegeek01
cablegeek01 - nice looking Meta 2510 ....
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| Good eye! And a Cisco ONS15454 is hiding there as well. Cable companies have branched out to voice and fiber service offerings, and as such the telco/cable world is starting to blend. |
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moes
join:2009-11-15
Indianapolis, IN | reply to signmeuptoo
Not sure if this counts, but I found it interesting none the less
»www.hhshootingsports.com/Communi···o./page2 |
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bbuchananPremium
join:2004-02-05
Peterborough, ON | reply to cablegeek01
I missed the ONS hiding under the Meta!
We've got a couple of the 2510's bigger brother, the 3510.
The worlds really are blending - really not much difference anymore between voice, data, cable - just the delivery method's. I find everything much easier once it has been converted over to IP.
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Is that a box to a Citizen CSX-190 dot matrix printer in the first rack? Why? |
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| said by cypherstream:Is that a box to a Citizen CSX-190 dot matrix printer in the first rack? Why?
Its for the EAS records. Every one of the weekly tests are documented for FCC review. Hard to believe there are still dot matrix printers in use daily! |
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cramer
join:2007-04-10
Raleigh, NC
kudos:7 | Nah. Telco's use them all the time. Feed a string of ASCII to it and it prints it. No need for all this PCL/PS crap. 
(I know of many that are directly attached to phone switches. In fact, I have a 132col C.Itoh in the box, sitting in the hall for 5 years. I have a brother I still use for printing forms. DMP is still king for multi-part forms!) |
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Interesting. Yeah we used dot matrix printers for years because of the strike and the ability to print on carbonless paper. Then you get the white copy, yellow copy and pink copy.
I'm sure to this day they are still used for those situations. You just can't get that out of a laser or inkjet! |
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 LazManPremium
join:2003-03-26
canada | reply to signmeuptoo
I like the Cordex rectifiers... Use lots of them and the CXCi controller is great.  |
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 Killa200Premium
join:2005-12-02
Southeast TN | reply to signmeuptoo
Glad to see that even the large headends get stuck with some of the junkiest sat receivers as well, and not just us small fries, lmao. |
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join:2002-07-19
London, UK
kudos:4 | reply to cablegeek01
Its dissappointing to see messy cabling. Neat cabling is not hard to achieve, even in a rush.
My record is labelling, running, dressing, connecting/patching, and verifying light levels on 4 patch leads in 15 minutes. I was running late to catch a plane, and did infact miss it and was stuck in Brussels for a few hours waiting for the next flight out. :-P
It actually turned out to be some of the nicest cabling Ive ever done, amazingly. |
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@suddenlink.net | Looks like a mototrola market judgeing by the sems |
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Markham, ON
·Rogers Hi-Speed
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This is Rogers: |
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