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SCTE approves another industry engineering standard

EXTON, PA – The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) on Tuesday announced it has approved its 200th engineering standard for the cable telecommunications industry – SCTE 151 2008, Mechanical, Electrical, and Environmental Requirements for RF Traps and Filters. SCTE 151 was developed in the SCTE Interface Practices Subcommittee (IPS) and was approved by the SCTE Engineering Committee, which oversees the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)-accredited SCTE Standards Program. The SCTE 151 standard provides the mechanical, electrical, and environmental requirements for broadband Radio Frequency (RF) trap and filter devices whose primary purpose is to provide a fixed attenuation of RF...