Deck 21: Catv Caple Television As a Telecommunication Service Provider

Question 1

The CATV cable TV providers are now full multi-services providers due to:

A) Broadband cable modem
B) VoIP
C) Video Content Provider
D) All of the above

Answer 1

All of the above

Question 2

CATV providers depend on traditional metropolitan networks to carry traffic back to their head-end?

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The CATV access network mimics that of traditional telephone access network?

Answer 3

False

Question 4

A CATV network from the distribution point to the customer is referred to as a ________, ________ architecture.

Question 5

The term HFC refers to ________.

Question 6

The CATV industry has standardized on the DOCSIS protocol which stands for ________.

Question 7

DOCSIS is a layer ________ and ________ protocol.

Question 8

The DOCSIS signal uses 3 frequency segments.

Question 9

The upstream path between the cable modem and the Internet runs at a higher speed than the downstream path.

Question 10

A cable modem broad band pipe is an ________ path , one direction carries higher bit per seconds than the opposite path.

Question 11

The cable box located at the customer's house talks to the network using the ________ protocol.

Question 12

The cable modem at the customer's premises talks to the customers computing device through a ________ interface.

Question 13

The data traffic travels on the same physical cable as the television signal.

Question 14

Voice service across the CATV broadcast pipe rides on its own copper feed to the distribution point where it is aggregated with all the other traffic across the IP backbone.

Question 15

The HFC portion of the network refers to the design from the:

A) Customer to the distribution point
B) Distribution p point to the head-end
C) Distribution point to the aggregation point
D) None of the above

Question 16

A tree, leaf architecture is used to connect the customer to the distribution point.

Question 17

A piece of equipment referred to as a CMTS is placed inside the distribution point. The CMTS stands for ________.

Question 18

The cable modems talk to the CMTS similar to a child talking to its parent. The CMTS tells the CM the following:

A) Level it should be at
B) IP address
C) When to transmit
D) If there is congestion
E) All of the above