A building has six floors plus a basement. Each floor is 10,000 square feet and has approximately 50 CATV outlets respectively. There is a single hardline trunk cable installed from the basement…

Because a hardline trunk is already installed through each TR, a trunk and tap design allows a single distribution cable per floor to serve all 50 outlets via directional couplers or multiport taps. This minimizes cable quantity compared to running 50 individual cables per floor. The result is significantly lower material and labor costs at high outlet densities.

A home run design would require 50 individual coaxial cables from each outlet back to the TR on every floor, dramatically increasing cable, conduit, and labor costs for a 50-outlet-per-floor installation.

Video over balanced twisted-pair requires replacing the coaxial infrastructure with UTP cabling and balun adapters at each outlet, adding equipment costs and deviating from the existing coaxial trunk plant.

Video over optical fiber requires fiber cable, optical transmitters, and receivers at every endpoint, making it the most expensive option and impractical for a standard horizontal CATV distribution scenario.