64 QAM Flashcards
DOCSIS
Data Over Cable Services Interface Specification
HFC
Hybrid Fiber Coaxial
The first DOCSIS specification, version 1.0 was issued in
March 1997
DOCSIS 2 was released in
January 2002
CMTS
Cable Modem Termination System
Created the ability for the CMTS to talk to the cable modem in the customer’s home
DOCSIS 1.0
Provided the control and enhanced security lacking in DOCSIS 1.0
DOCSIS 1.1
Supports higher upstream speed by allowing for additional profiles
DOCSIS 2.0
Triples the maximum upstream capacity when compared to DOCSIS 1.1
DOCSIS 2.0
Enables transmission across 6.4 MHz channel and increases upstream throughput to 30.72Mbps by using 64 or 128 QAM
DOCSIS 2.0
FEC
Forward Error Correction
Features “Channel bonding” which enables multiple downstream and upstream channels to be used together at the same time by a single subscriber
DOCSIS 3.0
DOCSIS 3.0 feature that supports IPv6 standards and expands the number of available IP addresses from existing 8 and 16 bit strings to as much as 32 and 128 bit strings
Channel Bonding
Similar to voice and visual systems and use signals that vary over time in Amplitude and/or Frequency
Analog transport systems
Transmitted at a fixed frequency and are comprised of a string of on and off states usually referred to as ones and zeros
Digital communications
Signal to be transmitted must be mathematically manipulated and converted into a string of On/Off states
Digital communications
These distortions are actually caused by the electronics and equipment used to complete the modulation
Non-Linear distortions
These errors occur during analog to digital conversion
digitizing errors
The basic analog to digital conversion process
sampling, quantization, and encoding
Occurs when the amplitude of the signal is determined at fixed points in time
sampling
The maximum frequency of the analog signal determines this
sampling rate
must be at least two times the frequency that is being digitized
sampling rate
The process of recording each sample as a number corresponding to the amplitude of the signal at that time
Quantizing
These determine how well the analog signal is represented, digitally.
Sampling and Quantizing
The process of measuring an analog signal at specific intervals so that a digitized signal can be created to represent the original analog waveform
sampling
A principle that engineers follow in the digitization of analog signals
The Nyquist Theorem
ADC
Analog to Digital Conversion
States that the minimum sampling frequency must be at least twice the highest frequency of the signal to be digitized, also known as the sampling theorem
The Nyquist Theorem
In signal processing and related disciplines, this refers to an effect that causes different signals to become indistinguishable
aliasing