August 26, 2001 Pictures documenting the upgrade of the Fort Severn cable system to DCOSIS standard between Monday, August 20, 2001 and Saturday, August 25, 2001.
- The cable headend equipment. The upconverter is in the left most rack at the very top. The other equipment are satellite receive
- The ip phone in it's new home at the Northern Chiefs office in Fort Severn.
- The satellite rack, uBR7223, cable registration server and DirecPC box (K-Net Router).
- The Band Office, Nursing Station, KIHS classroom and school are fed via ethernet.
- The main amplifier tuned and closed up.
- Taking final measurements at various end points around the community.
- A downstream S/N ratio of 38.5dB and a bit error
- A loose test cable caused an increase in the bit error (
- Another leg of the cable system ends near the Bell building.
- Hugh from Blair Electronics assessing the signal quality on his cable modem.
- Yvan from Blair Electronics taking a break and happy to see things working.
- Testing the Polycom SP video conferencing unit at the Nursing Station.
- Testing the Polycom SP video conferencing unit via a cable modem.
- Hugh, Ted (Northern Stores Manager) and Angus at the Northern Stores residence where the video conferencing test via cable modem
- Dan Pellerin via video conferencing.