headend

headend definition - telecom
The point of signal origin and centralized communications control in a CATV network or a traditional Dataphone Digital Service (DDS) network.The headend is the common point of control and connection in a point-to-multipoint network configured in a physical star. See also CATV, DDS, point-tomultipoint, and star topology.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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