This book 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. Included is an online component consisting of spreadsheets that were used in developing the material presented in the book.
* Concentrates on practical concepts that will allow the user to do his own design, improvement, and trouble-shooting work.
* Prepares cable engineers and technicians to work with assurance as they face the latest developments and future directions.
* Concise and tightly focused, allowing readers to easily find answers to questions about an idea or concept they are developing in this area.

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.
*Written by four of the most highly-esteemed cable engineers in the industry with a wealth of experience in cable, consumer electronics, and telecommunications.
*All new material on digital technologies, new practices for delivering high speed data, home networking, IP-based voice technology, optical dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), new video compression techniques, and integrated voice/video/data transport.
*Covers the latest on emerging digital standards for voice, data, video, and multimedia.
*Presents distribution systems, from drops through fiber optics, an covers everything from basic principles to network architectures.

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.

Taylor Hicks wrote a song not long ago called Do I Make You Proud? I didn't have to write these two books to make my Dad Proud of me. My dad is just proud that I am his son. If it had not been for my Dad then I wouldn't be who I am today. I don't have to do anything to make my dad proud of me because he is already proud of me. My dad was always there for me even when my family turned against me. He was there for me when nobody else was. I have a lot to be thankful for because my dad was always there to see me through. My dad was the one who guided me through the all of the bad times. My dad believed in me when nobody else did. I have tried everything to make my family proud of me but they will never be proud of me no matter what I do but my dad has always been proud of me and all I had to do is just be his son and now I realize that now. I will never have to be afraid to stand alone because my dad will always be there to guide me through. My dad loves me even though my family doesn't and he makes up for the love that I didn't get when I was a little boy. My dad makes feel strong everyday just by being here with me. My dad is the one who taught me to believe in myself and that I can do anything in life if I just believe. I have often wondered why God gave me all of these stories for and now I realize the reason why and the reason is because he wanted me to be able to express my self through writing and writing is a form of art and I am an artist. God let all of this bad stuff happen to me because he wanted me to turn all of that bad stuff into something good. God always takes all of the bad stuff that has happened to you to turn it around and do something good with it and that's what Ihave done. I have turned all of this bad stuff into something good. I have found my purpose in life and that is to become the best writer that I can be. I never could figure out what my talent was but now I know what my talent is and that is to be a writer. There are a lot of great books out there these days but at least I did what God told me to do because it says in the bible not to hide your talent and I didn't hide my talent. I used it for the glory of the Lord.