Belden has said its high-performance products will help build the infrastructure for the latest cableTV and satellite dish technology.

The company manufactures wire and cable broadband solutions that provide the bandwidth needed for that infrastructure, said Theo van Rijn, product marketing operations manager for Belden EMEA.
CATV is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibres or coaxial cables.
“As CATV is becoming more established, FM radio programming, high-speed Internet, telephony and similar non-television services are also being provided using the same bandwith,” Van Rijn said.
“With wireless communication becoming a part of everyone’s life, people communicate more and more through wireless networks such as cellular phones, TV Broadcasting and WLAN. Increasingly, the networks serving them become hybrid fibre coax,” he explained.
“Belden has a complete range of products for this market. It includes one of the most comprehensive, economical and up-to-date selections of reliable 75 Ohm and 50 Ohm coaxial cable products on the market today.
”The distribution and drop coaxes feature Belden’s innovative, high performance Duobond Plus shielding or Belden’s Duobond II shield. Belden Duobond Plus (Tri-shield) cables have consistently outperformed the more elaborate quad-shielded cables.”
Van Rijn said current projects in fibre to the home were driven by CATV operators. This was not a rapid changeover as CATV operators want to extend the broadband coax life as long as possible. Telco operators were also slowly moving towards the fibre to the home, as they want to extend the twisted pair life as long as possible. The true drivers were new providers as they were looking to build completely new networks with extremely high bandwidth.
“Key considerations are the growing demand for higher bandwidth and the triple play use of that bandwidth: for telephone, internet and TV or HDTV as well as the ongoing split between the roles of the network provider and content provider. Many countries – for instance in Eastern Europe – are now beginning to create their infrastructure,” commented Van Rijn.
“Belden has an impressive list of reference cases and a strong tradition of moving with the market to meet new needs for increased bandwidth and easy installation.”