headend

The point of signal origin and centralized communications control in a CATV network or a

traditional Dataphone Digital Service (DDS) network.The headend is the common point of control and connection in a point-to-multipoint network configured in a physical star. See also CATV, DDS, point-to-multipoint, and star topology.

• non-return-to-zero (NRZ)
• non-wireline carrier
• non-wireline carrier
• Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT)
• Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT)
• normal
• North American Numbering Council (NANC)
• North American Numbering Plan (NANP)
• North American Time Division Multiple Access (NA-TDMA)
• NOS (Network Operating System)
• notation
• Not To Act Like It)
• Novel Services)
• NPAC (Number Portability Administration Center)
• NPA (Numbering Plan Administration)
• N-PCS (Narrowband Personal Communications Services)
• NREN (National Research and Education Network)
• nrt
• nrt-VBR (non real-time Variable Bit Rate)
• NRZ (Non-Return-to-Zero)
• NSF (National Science Foundation)
• NT1 (Network Termination 1)
• NT1 (Network Termination 1)
• NT2 (Network Termination 2)
• NT2 (Network Termination 2)