Cable operator networks are large expansive networks that involve hundreds if not thousands of miles of
coaxial or fiber cable powered by power supplies in the outside plant and connecting customers to critical
infrastructure facilities such as hubs, headends, data centers, regional, and national distribution
datacenters. In these facilities is a vast array of equipment responsible for the production and support of
the cable operator?s products and services such as voice, video, data, home automation and security, and
Wi-Fi. The importance of powering all of these devices in the critical facilities is ever increasing as the
customer expectation is for 100% availability due to the critical nature of the services being provided to
business and residential customers. Standard methodologies are needed to measure the energy
consumption for the various network element classes as well as measuring the density of hardware to
meet the needs of optimizing critical space.
This document covers the general test procedures that are common to all equipment types and specifies
the environmental conditions for evaluating cable equipment energy efficiency metrics. Expectations of
measurement equipment as well as guidelines on the recording of results are also covered. This standard
will be included as a normative reference in each supplemental standard in the series covering metrics and
specific test procedures for the various equipment types.
The requirements in this document are applicable to all equipment types unless superseded by that
equipment type?s supplemental SCTE standard.
| ANSI : | ANSI Approved |
| File Size : | 1
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| Number of Pages : | 11 |
| Published : | 2016 |
