Headend

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A cable TV control centre, at which terrestrial and satellite signals are received, monitored and injected into the cable network.

    "The headend cable modem handles the medium access control (MAC) protocol which is necessary for point-to-multipoint operation on the tree-and-branch network."

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"The headend cable modem handles the medium access control (MAC) protocol which is necessary for point-to-multipoint operation on the tree-and-branch network."

Etymology

From head + end.

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