Digital cable headend for cable television delivery system

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348 12, 455 51, 455 61, H04N 716

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ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides greater capability and flexibility than existing cable headends. Specifically, the invention comprises a modular design for a cable headend and a combiner component for cable headend. The invention is particularly useful in cable television program delivery systems transponding large numbers of digitally compressed program signals. The combiner allows cherry-picking of programs from transponded signals.

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