headend
nounEtymology From head + end.
1
A cable TV control center, at which terrestrial and satellite signals are received, monitored and injected into the cable network.
- The headend cable modem handles the medium access control (MAC) protocol which is necessary for point-to-multipoint operation on the tree-and-branch network.1998, D. W. Faulkner, A. L. Harmer, Broadband Access and Network Management: NOC '98: