There is a clear trend toward regional aggregation of local cable television operations. Simultaneously, the broadband communications operations that once were cable TV are now implementing systems to distribute digital multiplexes of entertainment video, high-speed connections with the Internet and local servers via cable modems, commercial enterprise LAN/WAN’s, PCS-over-cable and telemetry, in addition to the traditional analog TV service. Both of these trends have a strong influence on many of the architecture and equipment decisions being made by cable operators. One of the outcomes of these trends has been a shift toward using standards-based digital transport (SONET and SDH) for the backbone interconnections within these regional networks. Using service examples, this paper discusses the reasons for this new direction.
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