Cable box (outside)


A cable box is a metal enclosure that connects a house or building to the cable provider. The box is usually located near the connection points for other service connections. Other locations of the cable box include centralized locations, lawns, or telephone poles. This feature serves as the demarcation point in which the provider's responsibility ends and the customer's responsibility begins.

Purpose

Cable boxes direct cable service to the cable wiring inside the house or building being serviced. To control which channels are available to the subscriber, service providers may place analog filters at the transmitting or receiving end, a method once popular in the '90s although now less common. Digital cable providers now use digital methods to control the availability of channels.