Downlead (other)
A downlead is an electrical cable connecting an outdoor structure to an indoor or in-ground structure. In particular, it may refer to: * Drop (telecommunication), the wire connecting an outdoor (particularly roof-mounted) antenna to the interior * The wires in a lightning protection system A lightning rod or lightning conductor (British English) is a metal rod mounted on a structure and intended to protect the structure from a lightning strike. If lightning hits the structure, it will preferentially strike the rod and be conducte ...

Drop (telecommunication)
In a communications network, a drop is the portion of a device directly connected to the internal station facilities, such as toward a telephone switchboard, toward a switching center, or toward a telephone exchange. A drop can also be a wire or cable from a pole or cable terminus to a building, in which case it may be referred to as a downlead. These cables may be reinforced to withstand the tension (due to gravity and weather) of an aerial drop (i.e., hanging in air), as in "messenger" type RG-6 coaxial cable, which is reinforced with a steel messenger wire along its length. Sources *Federal Standard 1037C, in support of MIL-STD-188 MIL-STD-188 is a series of U.S. military standards relating to telecommunications. Purpose Faced with "past technical deficiencies in telecommunications systems and equipment and software…that were traced to basic inadequacies in the applicati ... External links * Drop Wire Information https://web.archive.org/web/20140419020353/http://www.dropwi ...
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