Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 figures are based on Walt Ciciora, Cable Television in the United States. May 1995. Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO. ©1995 Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.

Tables 3.2 and 3.3 are based on ANSI/SCTE 43 2001 (formerly DVS 258) Digital Video Systems Characteristics Standard for Cable Television, pages 2 and 3, 2001. Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, Exton, PA. ©Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, Inc.

Figures 3.7(a), 3.7(b), 3.8, 3.10, 3.11, Table 3.4, and Figure 3.19 are based on S. Merrill Weiss, Issues in Advanced Television Technology. Pages 33, 73, 74, 90, and 141, 1996. London: Focal Press. ©1996 Focal Press.

Figures 3.7(c), 3.5, and 3.9(a) are based on Keith Jack, Video Demystified. Pages 517, 518, and 519, 1996. Eagle Rock, VA: HighText Publications. ©1996 LLH Technology Publishing.

Figure 3.17 was provided by Neil Brydon of Harmonic Inc.

Figures 3.16, 3.20, and 3.21 are based on Guide to the Use of the ATSC Digital Television Standard, Doc. A/54. Pages 24, 68, 86, 97, and 146, October 1995. Advanced Television Systems Committee, Washington, D.C. ©1995 ATSC Organization.

Figures 3.22, 3.24, and 3.26 are from Michael Adams, OpenCable Architecture. Pages 64, 65, and 66, 2000. Indianapolis: Cisco Press. ©2000 Cisco Press.

Figures 3.23 and 3.25 are based on SCTE 40 2001 (formerly DVS 313), Cable Network Interface Specifications. Pages 12 and 16, 2001. Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, Exton, PA © Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, Inc.

Figure 3.27 is based on ANSI/SCTE 67 2002 (formerly DVS 379), Applications Guidelines for SCTE 35. Page 5, 2001. Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, Exton, PA. ©Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, Inc.

Figure 3.29 is based on John Watkinson, An Introduction to Digital Video. Page 218, 1994. London: Focal Press. ©1994 Focal Press.

Figure 10.12 is based on data furnished by Howard Carnes of Antec Corporation.

Figure 12.6 is based on Ronald C. Cotton, Lightwave Transmission Applications. Page 108, September 15, 1993. The graph is used with permission of CommScope, Inc., Cable Television Laboratories Inc., Louisville, CO. ©1993 Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.

Figure 12.7 is based on data furnished by CommScope, Inc.

Figures 12.10 and 12.11 are based on Dogan A. Atlas, Fiber Induced Distortion and Phase Noise to Intensity Noise Conversion in Externally Modulated CATV Systems, 1996 National Cable Television Association Technical Papers. Page 291 and 292, April, 1996. National Cable Television Association, Washington, D.C. ©1996 National Cable Television Association.

Figure 12.13 is based on Dan Harris, Primer on Baseband Digital Transmission on Single-Mode. Page 94, August 1996. Communications Technology, Potomac, MD. ©1996 Phillips Publishing International, Inc.

Tables 14.1 and 14.2 are adopted from material furnished by Cable AML, Inc., September 5, 1997. Cable AML, Inc., Torrance, CA.

Table 14.3 and the supporting text and equations are based on material furnished by Dr. Francisco Bernues of CableAML, Inc. September 5, 1997. Cable-AML, Inc., Torrance, CA.

Figures 14.4, 14.5 and 14.6 are reprinted with permission from the International Telecommunication Union. ITU-R Recommendation ITU-R PN. 837-1, Characteristics of Precipitation for Propagation Modeling. Figures 1, 2 and 3. ©1996 International Telecommunication Union. Telecommunications Union, General Secretariat, Sales and Marketing Service, Place des Nations, CH-1211, Geneva 20, Switzerland.

Appendix A is based on EIA/ANSI-542, Cable Television Channel Identification Plan. Electrical Industries Association. Available from Global Engineering Documents, 800-854-7179. Used with permission of Global Engineering Documents.

Appendix B is based on EIA/TIA-250C, Electrical Performance for Television Transmission Systems. Electrical Industries Association. Available from Global Engineering Documents, 800-854-7179. Used with permission of Global Engineering Documents. Also based on Margaret Craig, Television Measurements: NTSC Systems. Pages 76–78. Tektronix, Beaverton, OR.