Copper Media

Question 1

Coaxial Cables

Answer 1

Center core with metallic shield/plastic jacket on it, RG-6 Cable company to connect their service to your home
RG-59 Once inside your home carry composite video between two nearby devices or connect an outlet to a cable modem (most common)

Question 2

Coaxial cable connect to your device?

Answer 2

F-type: screw on Cable TV/modems

BNC: old/obsolete yet used by the Department of Defense. Push and half turn

Question 3

Twinaxial Cable

Answer 3

Similar to coaxial cable but uses two inner conductors to carry the data instead of just one. 10 GB per second, lot less energy then copper

Question 4

Twinaxial Cable

Answer 4

Similar to coaxial cable but uses two inner conductors to carry the data instead of just one. 10 GB per second, lot less energy then copper

Question 5

Serial Cable

Answer 5

Straight copper wires in plastic jacket with a DB-9 or DB-25 connector at the end with 9 or 25 pins. RS-232

Question 6

Twisted Pair Copper Cabling

Answer 6

8 wires, twisted into pairs of 2 making. The more twists you have the better protection that cable has from electromagnetic interference or EMI
UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair: very common cheap
STP Shielded Twisted Pair

Question 7

Twisted Pair Cabling Connector types

Answer 7

RJ45: plastic 8 pin connector/ most common

RJ11: plastic 6 pin connector only use 2 of them commonly find them in the phone systems

Question 8

Registered Jack (RJ)

Answer 8

Used to carry voice or data which specifies the standards a device needs to meet to connect to the phone or data network RJ11 RJ45

Question 9

Bandwidth

Answer 9

Theoretical measure of how much data could be transferred from a source to its destination