Chapter 18 Architectural Elements and Examples

18.1 Introduction

Network architecture is the logical and physical interconnection of all the elements between a signal’s generation and its termination. Chapter 17 dealt with ways of measuring architecture-related parameters and the needs of various types of services. This chapter will first delineate each of the elements from which an architecture is constructed and then present some examples of high-level HFC distribution networks that have been proposed or constructed. Fiber-deep architectures will be covered in Chapter 19; the relationship between network architecture and service reliability and availability will be dealt with in Chapter 20.

18.2 Architectural Elements

Although network architecture ...

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