Q: To deliver broadband gaming services, the gaming software company.
✓✓ Connect their servers directly to the cable operator's managed IP
network
Q: To deliver programming to the customer, a digital video recorder
(DVR):
✓✓ Downloads program to an internal hard-drive within the device and
the customer uses remote control to make selections.
Q: To deliver video on demand (VOD) services:
✓✓ Hardware and software at the headend transmit the signals and keep
track of events and transactions.
Q: One of the using cable operator offered voice over internet protocol
(VoIP) services is:
✓✓ VoIP packets can be separated from software types of IP traffic on the
network ensuring quality of service QoS.
Q: Government officials can seek help directly from internet service
providers (ISP) services is:
✓✓ The National Broadband Plan (NBP) of 2010
Q: Without a wired or optical connection, fixed wireless and fixed optical
companies deliver high-speed data (HSD) to the customer?
,✓✓ Using a radio transmitter at the central office (CO), where there is a
connection to the internet through which a customer links to an ISP
(Internet services provider)
Q: Digital subscribers line (DSL) services, the leading competitors to
cable modem services in the home, is offered:
✓✓ By the local phone company on an existing copper twisted-pair
network.
Q: Cable operators and technicians hold onto their edge over digital
subscribers line (DSL) and telco services with:
✓✓ Professional installations and customer follow-up as DSL installations
are performed by the customer.
Q: One of the major effects of passing the Telecommunications Act of
1996 is that?
✓✓ Established providers could merge their businesses and network
capabilities
Q: Wireless video service or "wireless cable." Came into existence when:
✓✓ Businesses used microwave frequencies to offer channels to
customers who could not receive more traditional cable services.
Q: How can a distributor amplifier be identified in the network or on a
network designed map?
✓✓ The distribution amplifier has multiple downstream outputs.
Q: What should you be looking for when analyzing the network design
maps to troubleshoot a problem?
, ✓✓ The device common to those customers affected before traveling to
make signal status checks.
Q: What is spliced into the hardline coaxial cable to combine the AC
power with the transported RF signal in a hybrid fiber/coax (HFC)
network?
✓✓ A power inserter.
Q: How can a less experience technician identify what a non-standard
symbol on the network design maps represent?
✓✓ The legend at the bottom of the network design map that defines the
map symbols, cable, types, and amplifier data.
Q: What is required for checking the physical network integrity when
maintaining the coaxial cable network?
✓✓ Being observant and performing some minor tasks while engaged in
regularly scheduled activities.
Q: What test instrument sends out a test signal and displays any
reflections caused by impedance mismatches in the cable that are
characteristic of cable faults?
✓✓ Time domain reflectometer (TDR)
Q: What is the RF distribution tap value indicated on the tap face plate by
a sticker or number stamped into the housing?
✓✓ The signal loss between the tap downstream input port and the tap
ports.
Q: What technologies are defined in DOCSIS 4.0 to help sustain the
hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) network infrastructure for several more years?