ernatives, 489-546 cable modem standards, 513-521 broadband PLT, 530-534 cable modems and CMTSs, 512-513 cable TV networks. See Cable TV networks coax cable, 52-54 drivers of, 489-492 future of, 521-522 DSL technology. See DSL (Digital Subscriber HFC architecture, 510-512 Line) overview of, 509-510 fiber solutions, 522-528 CableHome, 521 HANs. See HANs (home area networks) CableLabs wireless broadband, 529 CableHome, 521, 544 Broadband-Compliant Radio Access Networks OpenCable, 520-521 (BRAN), ETSI, 628-630 VOD Metadata, 520-521 Broadband fixed wireless access (BFWA), 619-621 Call agents, SIP, 333 Index Call forwarding/waiting, 90 Cellular Call session controller function (CSCF), IMS, integrating WLANs with, 651-654 422-423, 698 VS. PCS, 588 Calm computing, xxxix Cellular Digit Packet Data (CDPD), 583-584 Camera phones, 689 Centre de transit (CT), 113 Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunica- CEPCA (Consumer Electronics Powerline Com- tions Commission (CRTC), 12 munication Alliance), 540 CAP (Carrierless Amplitude Phase Modulation), CEPT levels, 122 158, 504 CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Capacity reservation, 447-449 Nucléaire), lii CAPWAP (Control and Provisioning of Wireless Certificate authorities (CAs), 380-381 Access Points), 654-655 CEVs (controlled environmental vaults), PONs, Care-of address, Mobile IP, 694-695 Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection Channel banks, 116 (CSM/CD), 183-184, 479 Channel service units (CSUs), 116, 208-209 Carrier waves, 665 Channels, 6 Carrierless Amplitude Phase Modulation (CAP), CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Pro- 158, 504 tocol), 286-287, 375 CAs (certificate authorities), 380-381 Chips Category 5 (10BASE-T) wiring, 543 Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum, 571 CBQ (Class-Based Queuing), 357, 444 intelligent implants using, xlii-xliii CBR (constant bit rate), 438-440 overview of, xxviii CCIR (Consultative Committee on International Chirped pulse, 459 Radio), 553 Chord ringtones, 689 CCS (common-channel signaling), 131-132 CIDR (Classless Interdo