mikedz4
join:2003-04-14
Weirton, WV | reply to mikedz4
Re: anyone get the new hd channels in the pittsburgh area yet?
those same people told me they combined the headends into one when att tookover which is why i get steubenville's forecast instead of weirton's. |
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Fireman Tom
join:2002-03-28
Steubenville, OH | Mike,
I talked to my guy from Comcast again and they do not share Headends. |
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mikedz4
join:2003-04-14
Weirton, WV
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| why did they tell me they could only have one weatherstar for this area then?
" I have gotten word back about The Weather Channel. Our tech supervisors
contacted The Weather Channel directly and were advised that the local
weather has always come from Steubenville. The weather comes from the
local headend for the cable and Weirton's headend is in Steubenville,
OH. The main heading should be showing Steubenville Area during the
local on the 8's and Weirton is considered in the Steubeville viewing
area." |
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Fireman Tom
join:2002-03-28
Steubenville, OH | Not sure why, but Steubenville is on a 550 system Weirton is on a 750 system. They are two different systems and that is why Steubenville lacks the channel lineup that Weirton has. |
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markofmayhem
join:2004-04-08
Pittsburgh, PA
| Weirton/Steubenville is within the New Castle-Pittsburgh region. A head-end can service more than one "system". A single local weather tie-in can service multiple head-ends, the equipment does not need to be installed in each head-end, but a head-end can only use one data point per "system". Steubenville-Weirton is considered one location, not two, by just about every organization in the world excluding government and residents who think the world is smaller than it is. The Corliss St. "head-end" services us all:
Choose the "Satellite" view
From left to right, between the 2nd and 3rd building: this is where Weirton and Steubenville's TNT, HBO, ESPN, etc. comes from.
Headends have changed over the years, they can be anywhere from the super-complex above to a shack in the woods. Fiber has become less expensive to run over the years, lowering the requirement for actually constructing brick-and-mortar buildings to be needed for cable TV. Fiber run to nodes can run longer distances and is much, much cheaper than a building with mux-servers and staff. A "system" is simply a shared last-mile fiber run servicing nodes, multiple "systems" can originate from the same "head-end".
So when you asked about "head-end", were you answered on where your node's fiber run terminates into the local network or where the building that muxes your channel line-up is generated? They can be two completely different locations, in most cases, this is multiple locations.
Traceroute from 750mhz system that received the HD updates same day as the South Hills of PGH in New Cumberland, WV to DSLREPORTS.COM:
Node -> Wintersville, OH -> E. Liverpool, OH -> Beaver Falls, PA -> Corliss Street, PGH (in 1st map above) -> world
The copper cable line to my house terminates at a node near King's Creek. The fiber line then runs down Pensylvania Ave on to Route 2. I loose it around the intersection where Kroger's is. I am on the "City of Weirton" cable system. |
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