Pacific Bell's Consumer Broadband Network (CBN) is a Hybrid Fiber Coax (HFC) design capable o f responding to varylag service demands CBN is a full service network capable of providing broadanalog video, MPEG digital video, intenctive muhi-media, narruwband telephony, ISDN and wideband data (LAN) to the cotsumer and small business markets. Thii paper is based upon our experience ia the design and construction of the network, which now passes over 80,OOO homes, and will pass 500,OOO by year end 1995. The paper describes the base architecture and how extensions to that architecture and improvements in transmission techniques are used to satisfy growing demands over the life of the network.
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