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Direct-buried cable. Cross-section of direct buried cable. Direct-buried cable ( DBC) is a kind of communications or transmissions electrical cable which is especially designed to be buried under the ground without any other cover, sheath, or duct to protect it. [1]
Outside plant cabling, whether copper or fiber, is generally installed as aerial cable between poles, in an underground conduit system, or by direct burial. Hardware associated with the outside plant must be either protected from the elements (for example, distribution frames are generally protected by a street side cabinet) or constructed with ...
Xfinity. Adelphia Communications Corporation: assets acquired by Time Warner Cable and Comcast in 2006. Comcast Entertainment Television (CET) Comcast Television 2 (Michigan) Commuter Cable. ExerciseTV (with Time Warner Cable, New Balance, and Jake Steinfeld) Group W Cable. Susquehanna Communications.
ANSI/TIA-568 is a technical standard for commercial building cabling for telecommunications products and services. The title of the standard is Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard and is published by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), a body accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
A cable television headend is a master facility for receiving television signals for processing and distribution over a cable television system. A headend facility may be staffed or unstaffed and is typically surrounded by some type of security fencing. The building is typically sturdy and purpose-built to provide security, cooling, and easy ...
A utility tunnel, utility corridor, or utilidor is a passage built underground or above ground to carry utility lines such as electricity, steam, water supply pipes, and sewer pipes. Communications utilities like fiber optics, cable television, and telephone cables are also sometimes carried. One may also be referred to as a services tunnel ...
Comcast Corporation (simply known as Comcast, and formerly known as American Cable Systems and Comcast Holdings ), [note 1] incorporated and headquartered in Philadelphia, is an American multinational telecommunications and media conglomerate. [8] The corporation is the second-largest broadcasting and cable television company in the world by ...
A cable landing point is the location where a submarine or other underwater cable makes landfall. The term is most often used for the landfall points of submarine telecommunications cables and submarine power cables. The landing will either be direct (in the case of a point-to-point cable system) or via a branch from a main cable using a ...