Network+ Guide To Networks Chapter 5 - Network Cabling

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The measure of how much data is actually transmitted during any period in time?

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Throughput (What you actually get when transferring data)

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What is the theoretical potential for data to transmit during any period in time?

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Bandwidth (The max potential of data that could be transferred)

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Throughput and Bandwidth:

1 bit per second =

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1 bps (1 bit per second)

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Throughput and Bandwidth:

1000 bits per second =

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Kilo / 1 Kbps (1 kilobit per second)

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Throughput and Bandwidth:

1,000,000 bits per second =

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mega / 1 Mbps (1 megabit per second)

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Throughput and Bandwidth:

1,000,000,000 bits per second =

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giga / 1 Gbps (1 gigabit per second)

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Throughput and Bandwidth:

1,000,000,000,000 bits per second =

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tera / 1 Tbps (1 terabit per second)

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Coaxial Cable Specification:

18 AWG (American Wire Gauge)

75 ohm impedance

Delivers broadband cable internet service and cable TV

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RG-6 (Radio Guide 6)

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Coaxial Cable Specification:

10 AWG (American Wire Gauge)

50 ohm impedance

Used in the earliest Ethernet networks AKA Thicknet

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RG-8 (Radio Guide 8) Outdated

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Coaxial Cable Specification:

24 AWG (American Wire Gauge)

50 ohm impedance

Used in the 80's and 90's AKA Thinnet as it was thinner than Thicknet.

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RG-58 (Radio Guide 58) Outdated

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Coaxial Cable Specification:

20 or 22 AWG (American Wire Gauge)

75 ohm impedance

Used for short distances and suffers from greater attenuation.

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RG-59 (Radio Guide 59)

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Primarily used with RG-6 cables. Used to terminate coaxial cable used for transmitting television and broadband cable signals.

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F-Connector

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Used as a turn and lock mechanism. Used with Thinnet, RG-6, and RG-59 cables.

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BNC Connector (Bayonet Neill Concelman)

Outdated

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Connects two coaxial cables together.

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BNC coupler <-Outdated

F-Connectors are more common today.

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Networking standard that used RG-58 cabling (Thinnet or Thinwire) with a throughput of 10 Mbps.

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10Base2

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Color coded pairs of insulated copper wires

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Twisted pair

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Unshielded Twisted Pair Cabling Standard:

Maximum Throughput 10 Mbps

16 MHz Bandwidth

Used for 10 Mbps Ethernet or 4 Mbps Token Ring. Outdated

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Cat 3 (Category 3)

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Unshielded Twisted Pair Cabling Standard:

Maximum Throughput 100 Mbps

100 MHz Bandwidth

Used with Fast Ethernet, 100-BaseT Ethernet

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Cat 5 (Category 5)

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Unshielded Twisted Pair Cabling Standard:

Maximum Throughput 1000 Mbps (1Gbps)
350 MHz Bandwidth
Uses advanced methods for reducing cross talk. High quality copper and High twist ratio.

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Cat 5e (Enhanced Category 5)

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Unshielded Twisted Pair Cabling Standard:

Maximum Throughput 10 Gbps

250 MHz Bandwidth

Include plastic core to reduce cross talk, foil insulation, and fire resistant sheath

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Cat 6 (Category 6)

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Unshielded Twisted Pair Cabling Standard:

Maximum Throughput 10 Gbps

500 MHz Bandwidth

Backwards compatible with lower category cabling. Reduces attenuation and cross-talk. Reliably transmits data at multi-gigabit per second rates.

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Cat 6a (Augmented Category 6)

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Unshielded Twisted Pair Cabling Standard:

Maximum Throughput 10 Gbps

600 MHz Bandwidth

Each wire has its own shielding as well as additional shielding beneath the sheath. Lager and less flexible than previous versions.

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Cat 7 (Category 7)

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Unshielded Twisted Pair Cabling Standard:

Maximum Throughput 40 - 100 Gbps

1000 MHz Bandwidth

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Cat 7 (Augmented Category 7)

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This type of standard connector is used with shielded twisted pair and unshielded twisted pair cabling.

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RJ-45 (Registered Jack 45)

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This type of standard connector is used with unshielded twisted pair cabling to connect analog telephones.

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RJ-11 (Registered Jack 11)

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Ethernet Standard:

10 Mbps speed

100 meter distance

2 pair wires used for transmission

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10Base-T (Regular Ethernet) Cat 3 or better

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Ethernet Standard:

100 Mbps speed

100 meter distance

2 pair wires used for transmission

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100Base-T (Fast Ethernet) Cat 5 or better

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Ethernet Standard:

1000 Mbps speed

100 meter distance

4 pair wires used for transmission

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1000Base-T (Gigabit Ethernet) Cat 5 or better

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Ethernet Standard:

1000 Mbps speed

100 meter distance

2 pair wires used for transmission

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1000Base-TX (Gigabit Ethernet) Cat 6

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Ethernet Standard:

10,000 Mbps speed

100 meter distance

Cat 6a or Cat 7

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10GBase-T (10-Gigabit Ethernet)

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A cable that has been terminated at both ends identically is known as what?

It allows signals to pass straight through from one end to the other. Connects two unlike devices.

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Straight-through cable

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When you need to connect two like devices i.e. switch to a switch you use what kind of cable?

Two switches both transmit data on the same wire and are listening to receive on the other wire. To fix this you use a special kind of cable that has the transmit and receive cables reversed.

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Cross over

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This type of cable creates an interface with the device it connects to. It is as if the terminations are an exact mirror of each other.

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Rollover cable

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This method carries a current over a twisted-pair Ethernet wire. Defined by the 802.3af standard.

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PoE (Power over Ethernet)

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This type of cable carries light pulses along a single path from one end of the cable to the other end.

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SMF (Single Mode Fiber)

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This type of cable carries light pulses in many different angles and has a larger core than its counterpart.

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MMF (Multimode Fiber)

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Fiber Optic Ethernet Standard:

100 Mbps Speed

Multimode Fiber (MMF)

2000 meter distance

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100Base-FX (Fast Ethernet)

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Fiber Optic Ethernet Standard:

1000 Mbps Speed

MMF (Multimode Fiber) or SMF (Single Mode Fiber)

550 meter distance with MMF

5000 meter distance with SMF

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1000Base-LX (Gigabit Ethernet)

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Fiber Optic Ethernet Standard:

1000 Mbps Speed

MMF (Multimode Fiber)

550 meter distance

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1000Base-SX (Gigabit Ethernet)

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Fiber Optic Ethernet Standard

10,000 Mbps Speed

MMF (Multimode fiber)

300 meter distance

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10GBase-SR or 10GBase-SW (10 Gigabit Ethernet)

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Fiber Optic Ethernet Standard:

10,000 Mbps Speed

SMF (Single Mode Fiber)

10,000 meter distance

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10GBase-LR or 10GBase-LW (10-Gigabit Ethernet)

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Fiber Optic Ethernet Standard:

10,000 Mbps Speed

SMF (Single Mode Fiber)

40,000 meter distance

Best suited for WANs

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10GBase-ER or 10GBase-EW (10-Gigabit Ethernet)

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What occurs when a signal traveling on one wire or cable infringes on the signal traveling over an adjacent wire or cable?

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Cross-talk

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This type of cross talk occurs between two cables.

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Alien Cross-talk

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The type of cross talk occurs between wire pairs near the source of a signal.

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Near end cross-talk

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This type of cross talk occurs at the furthest end of the cable from a source signal.

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Far end cross-talk

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The loss of a signal's strength the further it travels from the source is known as what?

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Attenuation

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Transmissions that are carried on a single channel, with no other transmission sharing the media is known as what? Ethernet under this.

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Baseband

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Multiple transmissions that share a single media is known as what?

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Broadband

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WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) divides a beam of light into how many different wavelengths or colors?

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40

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What two connect types are typically used to terminate RG-6 and RG-59 cables?

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BNC and F-connectors

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In DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) a single fiber in a fiber-optic cable and carry between _____ and _____ channels

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60; 160