Broadband Cable Access Networks 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.

Broadband Cable Access Networks: The HFC Plant (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

Computers & Technology

Farmer, James

Large, David

Networking & Cloud Computing

Morgan Kaufmann

FTTX Networks: Technology Implementation and Operation provides an in-depth treatment of the technology and implementation of FTTX networks, discusses the environment that gave rise to FTTX, provides a survey of the available FTTX technologies, and gives users the state-of-the-art knowledge needed for successful deployment of FTTX. The book includes hands-on project planning engineering design and operations checklists, as well as recommended best practices for configuring FTTH systems and the data networks preceding them for IPTV, voice, and data, with case studies of actual FTTH systems and a methodology for predicting the performance of real systems. This book is a must-read for all network engineers, technical businesspeople, and technical specialists engaged in building FTTX networks, from technology selection, to fielding the network in production, to implementation.

FTTx Networks: Technology Implementation and Operation

Lane, Brian

Bourg, Kevin

Wang, Weyl

The sole survivor of the Big Four, and founder of CORE, James Farmer writes to set the record straight regarding the evolution of the civil rights movement and to document the conditions under which Black people lived prior to the movement

Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement

Children's Books

Plume

Texas native James Farmer is one of the “Big Four” of the turbulent 1960s civil rights movement, along with Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young. Farmer might be called the forgotten man of the movement, overshadowed by Martin Luther King Jr., who was deeply influenced by Farmer’s interpretation of Gandhi’s concept of nonviolent protest. Born in Marshall, Texas, in 1920, the son of a preacher, Farmer grew up with segregated movie theaters and “White Only” drinking fountains. This background impelled him to found the Congress of Racial Equality in 1942. That same year he mobilized the first sit-in in an all-white restaurant near the University of Chicago. Under Farmer’s direction, CORE set the pattern for the civil rights movement by peaceful protests which eventually led to the dramatic “Freedom Rides” of the 1960s. In Lay Bare the Heart Farmer tells the story of the heroic civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. This moving and unsparing personal account captures both the inspiring strengths and human weaknesses of a movement beset by rivalries, conflicts and betrayals. Farmer recalls meetings with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Jack and Bobby Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson (for whom he had great respect), and Lyndon Johnson (who, according to Farmer, used Adam Clayton Powell Jr., to thwart a major phase of the movement). James Farmer has courageously worked for dignity for all people in the United States. In this book, he tells his story with forthright honesty. First published in 1985 by Arbor House, this edition contains a new foreword by Don Carleton, director of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, and a new preface.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

TCU Press

The author, a founder of CORE, sets the record straight regarding the civil rights movement and documents the conditions under which Black people lived prior to the movement

Arbor House Pub. Co

NEW EDITION NOW AVAILABLE! ISBN 1-55860-828-1 Based on a tutorial workshop, this book overviews the technical details involved in a cable system. A complete descriptive reference of a cable television system. This book is the most up-to-date and comprehensive reference available on cable television technologies. It covers issues not addressed in any other book such as modern headend design, reliability calculations, modern architecture, and equipment interface. * Summarizes key standards including DOCSIS, DVS, NRSS, DSWG, EIA-542, and IS-23 * Explains digital cable, analog cable, data on cable, telephone on cable, and headend practices * Features distribution systems, from drops through fiber optics and covering everything from basic principles to network architectures * Includes coverage of digital video compression, digital modulation techniques, subjective video quality expectations, and consumer electronic equipment interface issues

Modern Cable Television Technology: Video, Voice, and Data Communications (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

Ciciora, Walter

Fully updated, revised, and expanded, this second edition of Modern Cable Television Technology addresses the significant changes undergone by cable since 1999--including, most notably, its continued transformation from a system for delivery of television to a scalable-bandwidth platform for a broad range of communication services. It provides in-depth coverage of high speed data transmission, home networking, IP-based voice, optical dense wavelength division multiplexing, new video compression techniques, integrated voice/video/data transport, and much more. Intended as a day-to-day reference for cable engineers, this book illuminates all the technologies involved in building and maintaining a cable system. But it's also a great study guide for candidates for SCTE certification, and its careful explanations will benefit any technician whose work involves connecting to a cable system or building products that consume cable services.

Modern Cable Television Technology: The HFC Plant (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

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Broadband Cable Access Networks: The HFC Plant (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

FTTx Networks: Technology Implementation and Operation

Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement

Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement

Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement

Modern Cable Television Technology: Video, Voice, and Data Communications (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

Modern Cable Television Technology: The HFC Plant (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)