Head end may refer to:
- A cable television headend, a master facility for receiving television signals for processing and distribution over a cable television system
- gateway (telecommunications)
- SMATV headend, (Single Master Antenna Television) This type of headend can be used for hotels, motels, and commercial properties. It is used to receive and rebroadcast Satellite TV channels throughout a property.
Famous quotes containing the word head:
“As I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on the forest floor, and endeavoring to conceal itself from my sight, and ask myself why it will cherish those humble thoughts, and hide its head from me who might, perhaps, be its benefactor, and impart to its race some cheering information, I am reminded of the greater Benefactor and Intelligence that stands over me the human insect.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)