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:
“Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)