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.

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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.