| Name |
Explanation |
| Cable Modem |
A communication device connected to a personal computer which offers customers access to the Internet over a cable system at speeds 50-100 times faster than a telephone connection. |
| Cable Ready |
Label for consumer electronic devices, such as television sets and VCR's, that are designed to allow direct connection to a cable television network. |
| cable television relay service station |
(CARS station) - A fixed or mobile station used for the transmission of television and related audio signals, signals of standard and FM broadcast stations, signals of instructional television fixed stations, and cablecasting from the point of reception to a terminal point from which the signals are distributed to the public. |
| Channel Capacity |
Maximum number of television channels that a cable system can carry simultaneously. |
| converter |
Device which increases the number of channels that a TV set can receive by converting the large number of signals carried on a cable or satellite system to a single channel tuned by the TV set, e.g., channel 3 or 4. |
| Digital Cable |
Cable services, programming, and equipment that use digital, not analog, formats. |
| Drop Cable |
The final stretch of coaxial cable that connects a customer's home to the cable system. |