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Cisco Cable TV EGC GaN Segmentable Node A90201, RF Amplifier Teardown

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Teardown of Cisco Cable TV EGC GAN node and drop amplifier. Electronic Gain Control (EGC) technology and GaN (Gallium Nitride) monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs}. These are modern versions running on fiber networks. These small amplifiers are used in houses where it is not practical to use a receiving antenna to get the signal from …

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Cisco Cable TV Optical Node and RF Amplifier Teardown

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Teardown of Cisco / Scientific Atlanta Cable TV optical node and drop amplifier. These are modern versions running on fiber networks. These small amplifiers are used in houses where it is not practical to use a receiving antenna to get the signal from the broadcast headend transmitter. They are also called a “service drop”. Back …

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Tandberg TT1200 DVB MPEG-2 Decoder Teardown

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Teardown of some old and discarded DVB MPEG-2 Decoders that have been used in a large buildings distributed TV network. Despite that units look the same on the outside, they turned out to be very different hardware revisions on the inside. The front of the Tandberg unit only has a display and 4 input keys. …

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