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| Uses a PHYSICAL conductor. This conductor can be a wire in which electricity flows or a glass or plastic strands in which pulses of light flow |
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| Uses electromagnetic signals that are transmitted through the air |
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| Name some types of unbounded media |
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| Name some factors of media performance |
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| Signal, noise, Attenuation, Impedance |
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| The electromagnetic communications you want to be transmitted across the network media |
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| Electromagnetic Interference(EMI) that disrupts the signal |
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| The degradation of a signal as it travels across a network medium, usually caused by the ACCUMULATION OF NOISE or fading signal strength |
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| The force that opposes the flow of electricity in an AC current measured in Ohms |
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| Used in bounded media consisting of strands of copper wire or a single solid copper wire surrounded by a non-conductive insulated coat |
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| Consists of foil or braided strands wrapped around a central conductor to prevent electromagnetic interference being intoduced into the network |
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| Name some types of copper mediums |
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| Shielded twisted pair, Unshielded twisted pair, Coaxial |
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| Shielded Twisted Pair: The more expensive of the copper medium, consisting of a shielding to prevent EMI(typically seen in Token Ring networking) |
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| Unshielded Twisted Pair: The most common of the copper mediums and more susceptible to EMI |
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| Voice grade not suitable for networking |
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| Used for digital telephone and low-speed networks. 4Mbps |
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| Ethernet:Used commonly for digital telephone. 10Mbps at 16Mhz |
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| IBM Token Ring. 16Mbps, can be used for 10Mbps networks |
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| Gigabit Ethernet. 350Mbps |
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| Gigabit Ethernet. 1Gbps at 250Mhz |
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| Gigabit Ethernet. 1Gbps+ at 1Ghz |
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| What is the maximum distance for all CAT cabling? |
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| Name the two EIA/TIA cabling schemes for CAT cabling |
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| TIA/EIA 568A and TIA/EIA 568B |
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| What kind of wiring scheme does a crossover cable use? |
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| TIA/EIA 568A at one end and TIA/EIA 568B at the other end |
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| (Coax) is a type of copper cable that features a central, conducting copper core surrounded by an insulator and a braided shield wrapped in a outer jacket |
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| A .5mm(0.25inch) coax cable with a 50ohm impedance. Used in Ethernet networking(Solid Core) |
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| 5mm(0.25inch) coax cable with a STRANDED core and a 50 ohms impedance. Used in Ethernet networking |
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| 10mm(0.5inch) coax cable with a SOLID core and 50 ohms impedance. Used in Ethernet neworking |
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| A screw-on or non-threaded slip-on connector used with a 75ohm cable to connect cable TV and FM antenna cables |
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| Is used to keep a signal from bouncing around on a cable |
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| Ethernet over RG58/U and RG58A/U configured in a bus configuration in which segments can be up to 185 meters(607ft) |
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| Ehternet over RG8 used as a network backbone 500meters(1640ft) in length uses vampire taps and 15 pin AUI connectors requiring 50ohms terminators and screw type N-connectors |
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| used in RG8 every 2.5 meters to pierce the outer jacket of the cable to touch the central conductor. Used for adding devices to the network |
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| A network cable in which the core is one or more glass or plastic strands |
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| Whatis the range of diameter of a fiber optic cable |
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| 5-100 microns for the core and 125 micron for the outer diameter |
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| What are the fiber modes for optical cabling |
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| Single Mode and Multi-Mode |
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| Is smaller than multi-mode fiber, light only travels in one direction. Core is 9 microns thick. Uses a laser |
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| Multi-mode Fiber(Properties) |
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| allows light to pass in multiple rays or mode through its core. Core is 50 or 62.5 microns thick. LED for slower LANs and lasers for Gigabit networks |
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| Spanning Tree Protocol or Shielded Twisted Pair |
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