BS EN 60728-1-2:2014

What is this BS EN 60728-1-2 - Cable networks for television signals, sound signals, and interactive services about?  

BS EN 60728-1-2 discusses cable networks for television signals, sound signals, and interactive services with a focus on performance requirements for signals delivered at the system outlet in operation. Cable networks are networking hardware used to connect one network device to other network devices or to connect two or more computers to share printers, scanners, etc.  

BS EN 60728-1-2 provides the minimum performance requirements to be fulfilled in operation at the system outlet or terminal input and describes the summation criteria for the impairments present in the received signals and those produced by the CATV/MATV/SMATV cable network, including individual receiving systems. 

BS EN 60728-1-2 is applicable to cable networks intended for television signals, sound signals, and interactive services operating between about 5 MHz and 3 000 MHz. The frequency range is extended to 6 000 MHz for home distribution techniques that replace wired cords with a wireless two-way communication inside a room (or a small number of adjacent rooms) that uses the 5 GHz to 6 GHz frequency band. 

Who is BS EN 60728-1-2 - Cable networks for television signals, sound signals, and interactive services for? 

BS EN 60728-1-2 on cable networks for television signals, sound signals, and interactive services is useful for: 

• Telecommunication equipment manufacturers 
• Telecommunication component manufacturers 
• Design engineers 
• Quality control personnel 
• Cable service providers  

Why should you use BS EN 60728-1-2 - Cable networks for television signals, sound signals, and interactive services?  

In some home and industrial applications, power lines are used as network cabling. BS EN 60728 deals with cable networks including equipment and associated methods of measurement for headend reception, processing, and distribution of television and sound signals, and for processing, interfacing, and transmitting all kinds of data signals for interactive services using all applicable transmission media. These signals are typically transmitted in networks by frequency-multiplexing techniques.  

BS EN 60728-1-2 deals with the requirements to be fulfilled at the system outlet or terminal input when the CATV/MATV/SMATV system is in operation.  BS EN 60728-1-2 gives the guidelines for the calculation of the operational characteristics at the system outlet, taking into account the performance requirements of the CATV/MATV/SMATV network, of the home networks, and of the received signals. 

What’s changed since the last update?  

BS EN 60728-1-2:2014 supersedes EN 60728-1-2:2009. BS EN 60728-1-2:2014 include technical change with respect to EN 60728-1-2:2009 which is:  

• Update of performance requirements in Clause 7 to include those for DVB-T2 signals