Cabling Flashcards
Balun
A balanced to unbalanced circuit coupling device used to convert from unbalanced to Balance transmission provides impedance matching when connecting twisted-pair to coaxial cables
Grade 2 residential cable requirements
2 cat 5E and 2 coaxial cable’s
Attenuation
Signal loss decrease in magnitude of transmission signal strength between points.similar to voltage drop
Pair to pair couple
Transfer of unwanted energy from one circuit or pair to another
Power sum next
Undesired coupling of signal energy from a number of simultaneously transmitting pairs into a receiving pair
Class one administration
Number of TR’s and no backbone cabling or outside plant cabling system
ADO
Provides meals for a tenant to disconnect from access provider
Equipment room
Centralize space for telecommunications equipment that serves occupants of the building sometimes two rooms one voice and one data usually where utility comes into a building
Residential cable requirements
Grade 1 Dash minimum requirements for telecom services , Telephone, satellite cat tv and data services
Grade 2 – provides a generic cabling system that meets the requirements for basic advanced and multimedia telecommunication services
CMP
Plenum cable
CMX
Residential cable
CG
General purpose
CMR
Riser cable
Work area
A building space where the occupants interact with telecommunications terminal equipment
Application dependent design
Specific cable type and connectors for a design
Structured cabling system
Horizontal cabling, backbone cabling, Work area, telecom rooms, equipment rooms, entrance facility, administration