Head-end cables cover all broadcast types

Belden now offers a comprehensive line of cables for a wide range of head-end applications.

Belden now offers a comprehensive line of cables for a wide range of head-end applications.

With the trend towards head-end consolidation and the proliferation of educational and government channels, as well as the fast-approaching mandate to transition to digital technology, cable engineers today are being challenged to design and build "future-proof" head ends that will allow them to serve customer needs reliably now and into the future.

Belden stands alone in its ability to offer such a wide variety of high-quality, high-performance cables for every facet of the head end.

Belden's head-end cables are designed to enable broadcast and CATV service providers, large and small, to select the product mix required to provide their customers with robust performance and superior reliability, and increase their ability to accommodate more sophisticated offerings - such as high-definition television (HDTV), video on demand (VOD), interactive TV services, Internet telephony (VoIP), high-speed data transmission, targeted (zoned) advertising, and personal communications services (PCS).

For satellite applications, RG-6 and RG-11 coaxial cables come in a variety of constructions and shield types, with all cables sweep tested to 3GHz.

A range of industry-leading, high-end RF cables products, including bundled and multi-coax designs, can be used to interconnect a variety of signal processing equipment.

The top performing serial digital video (SDI) cables in the broadcast industry are sweep tested to 4.5GHz and meet SMPTE 292M and ITU-R-BT.601 for Pal standards.

For VoIP applications, industry-leading Cat 3 to Cat 6 data cables are available in both bonded-pair and nonbonded-pair versions.

Single-and double-pair digital audio cables exceed AES/EBU specifications.

An extensive range of DS-3 and DS-4 interconnect and crossconnect coax cables provide top performance and reliability for central office and voice applications.

And fibre optic interconnect cables designed for premise applications include patch panel, workstation connections and horizontal distribution.

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