Corning IHU Integrated Head End Unit Chassis
Corning ONE DAS Headend Technology
Corning ONE Headend Technology
The integrated headend unit (IHU) is a compact, flexible, chassis-based system that performs two functions: it conditions RF signals from up to eight bands and provides RF to optic signal conversion for the RF signals.
The IHU supports 12 slots:
- Four slots are dedicated to RF conditioning modules
- Four slots are dedicated to optic conversion modules
- Four slots are dual-slots, that can house either a conditioning module or an optic conversion module
This provides configuration flexibility as to the number of supported services (one per module) and the number of optical links (three per module). The IHU can serve as the site management unit (if the appropriate control module is installed), or it can be managed via the designated HEU.