This is a lot more reverse path bandwidth to offer interactive services on. If the rules change, we have built in the extra capability. Power consumption Cable companies, including Buckeye Cablevision, have begun changing from a distributed power system to a centralized one. Brown says his company now has only one power supply per node. With this centralized power system, Buckeye can use permanently mounted generators in the case of a commercial power outage.
More amplifiers stemming from one power source, however, means that the current is greater.
In other words, Pierson explains, cable operators want to feel their additional revenue streams are protected from outages and downtime. To help provide this insurance, Philips has built in its RF amplifier an element management system with return ingress protection. If ingress reaches the node, the reverse signal for 500 subscribers could be impaired. Philips element management system provides automatic shutoff so that the starting point of the ingress can be determined. We made the element management system integral.