The technology behind TV and internet, in plain English
From IPTV and multicast to GPON, failover and point-to-point links. What the terms mean, when you'll come across them, and what they mean for your location.
IPTV
Television that runs as a data stream over your own network instead of a separate coax installation.
Read the explanationMulticast
A technique where a single TV stream travels through the network to all viewers, instead of a separate stream per device.
Read the explanationSeamless Rate Adaptation
A technique that smoothly adjusts a connection's speed when there's interference, without the line dropping out.
Read the explanationHome Subscriber Server
A central database that records which connection has which services and permissions.
Read the explanationGPON
A fibre network in which a single fibre serves dozens of connections via passive splitters.
Read the explanationDOCSIS
A standard for delivering internet over existing coax cable, without opening up the building.
Read the explanationFailover
Automatically switching to a second connection as soon as the first one drops.
Read the explanationSD-WAN
Intelligently combining multiple internet lines and managing them centrally across all your sites.
Read the explanationVLAN
Logically separated networks over the same cabling, so guests and business systems can't reach each other.
Read the explanationBand steering
Automatically steering wifi devices to the best frequency band so coverage stays even.
Read the explanationPoint-to-point link
A wireless connection between two fixed points, as an alternative to digging.
Read the explanationFWA
A fixed internet connection via the 4G/5G mobile network, without digging or a wait.
Read the explanationNarrowcasting
Showing your own images and information on screens, centrally managed alongside or instead of TV.
Read the explanationDVB-T2 and TVRO
The ways the TV signal enters a location before it goes onto your network.
Read the explanationWAN bonding
Using multiple internet lines simultaneously as one connection, so losing one line interrupts nothing.
Read the explanationZero Touch Deployment
New equipment configures itself as soon as it's switched on and comes online at the location.
Read the explanationSLA
The agreement on how quickly we respond and restore service if something goes wrong with your connection.
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