billh@alpha.la.locus.com (Bill Heiden) (09/20/90)
Hi, This may not be the correct group to pose this question on, but I'm sure that someone out there probably has an answer. Does anyone know of a type of cable that could support both network com- munications and video signals. Is there an easy way to filter out the video signal from the network communications? ********************* * Bill Heiden * Locus probably doesn't agree with me. * Locus Computing * * Inglewood, Ca * *********************
lerman@stpstn.UUCP (Ken Lerman) (09/21/90)
In article <17445@oolong.la.locus.com> billh@alpha.la.locus.com (Bill Heiden) writes: >[...] > Does anyone know of a type of cable that could support both network com- >munications and video signals. Is there an easy way to filter out the >video signal from the network communications? [...] Yup, its called broadband (as contrasted to baseband). Your local cable TV people use it for video, but you can use it to mix video and data. You get umpty-ump (a technical term) 6 MHz wide channels which you can use for most anything you want. A number of vendors make modems which you can connect to it to give you multiple independent parallel networks. It has a second advantage that it can work over a much larger area than ethernet. Over a city, if you like. Its major disadvantages are that it requires some engineering and that it requires a centralized "head end" and amplifiers to repeat signals. Ken