What's a CATV?

CATV is the abbreviation of "Community antenna television", that is, sharing antenna TV.

CATV Network is the "CATV network", is an efficient and inexpensive comprehensive network, it has a wide bandwidth, large capacity, multi-function, low cost, anti-interference ability, support a variety of services to connect the advantages of thousands of households, its development for the development of Information superhighway laid a foundation.

In recent years in China CATV Network development, the country has built more than 1500 cable TV stations, the number of users up to more than 80 million, in the national coverage of 50%, and is still growing at a rate of 30% per year. TV has become the highest rate of domestic household information tools, CATV Network has become the most close to the family multimedia channels, but it is still relying on coaxial cable to the user to send TV programs, but also in the simulation level.

Broadband Two-way VOD TV (VOD) and through the CATV network access to the Internet for television on demand, CATV calls, etc. is the development direction of CATV Network, the ultimate goal is to make the CATV network to the broadband two-way multimedia communication network.