50-µm fibre optic cable • Fibre optic cable. • The background • As today’s networks expand, the demand for more bandwidth and greater distances increases. Gigabit Ethernet and the emerging 10-Gigabit Ethernet are becoming the applications of c...

...of video on fibre optic cable. • Advantages of fibre optic cable over copper coax cable to transmit video • Superior performance • Fibre cable supports a very high data rate and yields a very low signal loss. So you get sharp, clear video over far g...

...to fibre and run cables across an extra-long distance-up to 50 kilometres or more! • Have an Ethernet switch with RJ-45 ports? No problem! Use a converter to attach legacy AUI and BNC or new fibre segments. • What are Media Converters? • Medi...

...6a • Category 6 and 6a Cables • Category 6 • The next level in the cabling hierarchy is Category 6 (CAT6) (ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-1), which was ratified by the TIA/EIA in June 2002. CAT6 provides higher performance than CAT5e and features more string...

...pair within a four-pair cable. TSB-67 requires that pair-to-pair NEXT be measured on all pair combinations in a cable. The worst pair-to-pair NEXT measure should not exceed the cable's specified limits. • PS-NEXT is a much more rigorous crosstalk me...

...fibre optic devices and cable to filter the strength of the fibre optic signal. Depending on the type of attenuator attached to the devices at each end of the fibre optic cable, you can diminish the strength of the light signal a variable amount, me...

...Optic Mode-Conditioning Cable • Fibre Optic Mode-Conditioning Cable • Use Fibre Optic Mode-Conditioning Cable for Gigabit Ethernet longer than 550 meters • You can run Gigabit Ethernet over up to 2-km-long multimode fibre optic cable. However, the t...

...Shielded vs. unshielded cables • Shielded vs. unshielded cables • The environment determines whether cable should be shielded or unshielded. Quiet office environments, busy retail establishments, and individual workshops all require different levels...