Re: [asterisk-biz] Anyone experienced in cable telephony?

The exception is funky voice-over-RF stuff.

You don't want to do that. It wouldn't work with Asterisk anyway. And
it's a pointless waste of time.

Alex Balashov wrote:

> C. Savinovich wrote:
>
>> Thank you all for your replies. But here is the dumb question: I have
>> never
>> seen how the coaxial cable used for cable TV ends up on a provider's
>> rack.
>> Can anybody describe me (as if I was looking at a picture) how a whole
>> bunch
>> of round coaxial cabling can come into a room and end up in an
>> Asterisk PBX
>> providing telephony... I suppose the coaxial cables just end up in
>> routers
>> with coaxial ports, and then, it is just a network like any other
>> network...
>> or isn't it?...is there anything I am not taking into consideration??
>
> No coax goes into Asterisk. Coax is just part of the network build-out
> on the last mile for delivering IP to the customer. HFC is the
> technology that bridges Ethernet over to a head-end UBR or similar piece
> of broadband aggregation equipment over CATV and/or digital.
>
> Imagine that you have an Asterisk PBX colocated somewhere and have a
> VoIP handset at home on your DSL connection. The "DSL" part of the
> equation doesn't touch either your phone or the PBX per se; it's just a
> piece of the abstraction layer and mesh of networks, administrative
> domains and physical-layer technologies that deliver IP from Asterisk to
> you.
>
> Coax is the same way.
>

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