How does Xfinity get to your house?
Xfinity Internet service gets to a customer’s house through the use of cables, which are either buried or strung overhead.
Now, no matter if you are getting Xfinity high speed internet, cable services, or even phone services, the question might pop up that – how does all that come into my home? Xfinity exploits cable, wire, satellites, receivers and many other system facilities to take services to your door step. Here are the detailed steps involved on how it works.
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For cable TV and internet services from the Xfinity TV Packages, the process starts at this network hub facility in your area. The transmission of signals in this area involves these access nodes, distribution centers, and headend buildings.
Access node is another concept that relate with the local community and provides a point of interconnectivity with the core network. It also acts as a receiver and a transceiver of signals from and to the distribution hub through thick cables of fiber optics and coaxial cables that are buried underground.
The hub located in the hub facility makes the distribution hub to boost the signals and spits them up for the distribution to nearby neighborhoods. It transmits the signals outward through a network of coaxial cables connected through a cable that is strung on utility poles.
Satellite TV signals are transmitted from satellite TV through large satellite dish antennas situated in the headend. It acts on these signals and produce the complete channel list together with program originated from the cable station then it modulate the signal for distribution through the cable system.
Part 4: The Local Hub to the Neighborhood
This means that after the signals have gone through the local hub facility, they move throughout the community through the coaxial cables interconnecting the community along the utility lines. Repeaters are installed at certain intervals along the Copper pairs to increase the intensity of the signals as the distance increases from the Hub.
These cables branch out from the main cable with tap boxes leading and steering the signals in the correct directions down different streets and neighborhoods. Subsequently, individual subscriber drop cables move off from this branching web, extending from a tap box or an active splitter straight to a client’s house.
Getting into Your Home
That drop cable from the street goes inside your home to where there is normally a grounding block to guard against electrical surges getting in. In certain archaic houses, there is still a wire cable dropping from the utility pole above that requires grounding before it can come in.
The drop cable from the grounding location enters your home, often within some type of protective conduit. It may be directly plugged to a wired networking panel within the premises or into a cable modem or splitter box of Xfinity inside the home to help in the distribution of the signal to other rooms in the home.
If you have voice service for phone with Xfinity, there tends to be a voice modem device needed to access that purpose. Finally for complete home security services with cameras and sensors Xfinity desires an extra control panel. Xfinity is a happy to carry out all of this professionally, at your preferred home to ensure convenience.
The ARPU journey appears to be slightly different for satellite TV services in lieu of cable. Unlike coaxial cables that are obtained from a local facility, the Xfinity satellite dish installed at your home relays signals that have been directly broadcasted by satellites in the geosynchronous orbit around the earth.
Switching On The Lights for Connecting to the Xfinity Satellites
Xfinity uses two primary satellites, namely X1 that contains HD content and Anik F2 that contains other standard SD channels. The round dish fixed externally is directed towards the south since it connects with these satellites that orbit around the equator.
The dish materials and dish parabolic form are made to collect signals at the 12 GHz frequency band from space and deliver those paths into the LNB mounted feedhorn.
These signals are then boosted and translated down to the frequency range of 950 – 1450Mhz so that they can easily pass through normal RG-6 coaxial cables. These cables connect from the dish into your house.
Inside the home, the coaxial cable is terminated to a multi-switch where it branches out to feed multiple receivers, or to a receiver box that Xfinity provides for processing on the individual units in the television set.
Getting Connected
Regardless if these signals arrived through cables or satellite links they require receivers to decode into video, data, and voice services. For internet access you can plug in your computer to the Xfinity cable modem or gateway device through a Ethernet cable or by using WiFi.
For cable/satellite TV reception, HD set-top boxes or Xfinity X1 receivers make use of television set as they decode the video content to be displayed. They also offer enhanced control options, such as additional on-screen guides, scheduling programs on demand and much more.
Cable Xfinity phone service relies on the wiring system within the house where users plug their phones into the Xfinity voice modem or gateway for call transmission.
For home security, cameras, sensors and control panels are connected to the Xfinity network through home gateway and Internet modem equipment. The used data connection also applies when using Video monitoring, Alerts, and App control.
Maintenance and Support
Xfinity has large volume monitoring, maintenance and support structure to ensure that services are running smoothly in the background. Network operation centers have a way of monitoring performance in access point, hubs satellites, and any other structures.
Whenever there are such concerns arising, the customer support service has been provided to address and determine the most appropriate solutions to the concerns. Some of these include Technicians who can be sent to homes or neighborhood equipment distribution centers for necessary fix and maintenance.
Both capacity and equipments are being established and upgraded throughout the network regularly due to increase in traffic and need for quality services. And while those cables, satellites and signals that reach your home is actually amazing; it’s not without intricate support systems and teamwork to make it all possible.
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