This letter studies the feasibility of transmitting IS-95 code-division mul
tiple-access (CDMA) wireless signals in hybrid-fiber-coax (HFC) networks, C
apacity estimation of an HFC optical node-based CDMA cellular systems using
a return-path channel model is provided. In addition to multiple-access in
terference in IS-95 CDMA networks, the return-path channel model takes into
account ingress noise, impulsive noise, and microreflections in a coaxial
cable transmission system; and laser diode clipping-induced intermodulation
noise in an optical fiber link.