At the recent CAI trade show in the midlands, there were several fibre optic head end systems on display, mostly for use in larger systems, but still of interest.

Of most interest was a prototype from Global Invacom, a fibre optic LNB, requiring a 12v supply at the dish, but otherwise only a single fibre back to the distribution point in the house/apartment block.

The beauty of fibre optic over coax cable is the practically non-existent loss, less than 1db over 100m....

rolfw

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Chris has installed this integrated vBulletin blog, members of Regular Member status and above can make their own blog entries and reply/comment on others' entries.

Registered members who have been on the forum for more than a month and have five valid posts will also be able to post comments on others' blog entries only.

All members will be able to view the Blog entries.

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