BELDEN® OFFERS COMPREHENSIVE RANGE OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE CABLES SUITABLE FOR EVERY HEADEND APPLICATION

RICHMOND, IN – Belden, a world leader in the development of signal transmission products for CATV, industrial, broadcast, residential and security markets, now offers a comprehensive line of cabling solutions for a wide range of headend applications. With the trend towards headend consolidation and the proliferation of educational and government channels, as well as the fast-approaching mandate to transition to digital technology, cable engineers today are being challenged to design and build “future-proof” headends that will allow them to serve customer needs reliably now and into the future. Belden stands alone in its ability to offer such a wide variety of high-quality, high-performance cables for every facet of the headend.

Belden’s Headend Cables are designed to enable broadcast and CATV service providers, large and small, to select the product mix required to provide their customers with robust performance and superior reliability, and increase their ability to accommodate more sophisticated offerings – such as high-definition television (HDTV), Video on Demand (VOD), interactive TV services, Internet telephony (VoIP), high-speed data transmission, targeted (zoned) advertising, and personal communications services (PCS).

Belden Headend Cables include:

• Satellite Cables – RG-6 and RG-11 coaxial cables come in a variety of constructions and shield types, with all cables sweep tested to 3 GHz.

• RF Cables – A range of industry-leading, high-end RF products, including bundled and multi-coax designs, can be used to interconnect a variety of signal processing equipment.

• SDI Cables – The top performing serial digital video (SDI) cables in the broadcast industry are sweep tested to 4.5 GHz and meet SMPTE 292M and ITU-R-BT.601 for PAL standards.

• VoIP Cables – Industry-leading Cat 3 to Cat 6 data cables, in both Bonded-Pair and Nonbonded pair versions, are ideal for Voice-over-Internet Protocol equipment.

• Digital Audio Cables – Single-and Double-pair Digital Audio cables exceed AES/EBU specifications.

• DS-3 and DS-4 Cables – An extensive range of DS-3 and DS-4 Interconnect and Cross-connect coax cables provide top performance and reliability for central office and voice applications.

• Optical Fiber Cables – Fiber optic interconnect cables designed for premise applications including patch panel, workstation connections and horizontal distribution.

For more information about Belden’s complete line of high-performance cables for headend applications, contact Belden, P.O. Box 1980, Richmond, Indiana 47375, or call 1.800.BELDEN.1 to request our Headend Cables product catalog. FAX: 765.983.5294. Or visit the Web site: www.belden.com.


About Belden

Belden is a leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of signal transmission products for data networking and a wide range of specialty electronics markets including entertainment, industrial, security and aerospace applications. Belden has manufacturing facilities in North America and Europe as well as distribution centers in the U.S., Canada, Singapore, Australia and The Netherlands. A majority of Belden's manufacturing, engineering and support functions are registered to the International Organization for Standardization.

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