Abstract: A low power, low cost distributed digital loop (DDL) carrier system that combines television and voice telephone signal transmission over coaxial cables. The DDL system employs a passive/active tap module (114) that controls the steering of the video and telephone signals. The high frequency down stream telephone signal is not processed until a routing terminator (110) converts it to lower frequency signal for transmission in the lower frequency subsplit channel. The telephone signal is then transmitted back up through the subsplit where the active circuitry of each tap intercepts the telephone signal, selects the needed signal and transmits it down to a network interface unit (120) located at the subscriber premises.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for and a method of complex signal generation and transmission having particular application in a time assigned speech interpolation or TASI system. Samples of the amplitudes of a plurality of signalling status and test signals are stored in a digital code in a digital memory. These samples are retrieved as needed without the need for a plurality of time base signal generating means. The signal to noise ratio of the signals to be transmitted is increased by statistically predicting the n equally likely amplitude ranges of the entire set of signals. Each character of the digital code employed identifies one of these ranges. The more likely occurring amplitudes are thus defined by more code characters than are the less likely amplitudes.