Lesson 3: Media Flashcards
A telephony cable that combines 100 twisted pairs of wires inside one large, insulated sheath.
100-Pair Cable
A newer type of wiring distribution point used in telephone and network installations.
110 Block
A telephony cable that consists of 25 twisted pairs of wires inside one common insulating sheath.
25-Pair Cable
A legacy type of wiring distribution point used in telephone and network installations and patch panels.
66 Block
The gradual weakening of a data signal over time and distance.
Attenuation
In networking, a measurement of data transfer capacity, typically measured in multiples of bits per second. Another way of looking at this is to say that bandwidth is the theoretical maximum of how much data a specific cable or other medium can carry.
Bandwidth
A type of cable that can carry only one signal one way at a time.
Baseband Cable
A common type of connector that must be used with Thin Ethernet (Thinnet) cables to attach stations to a network.
BNC Connector
A cable that is able to carry multiple signals simultaneously.
Broadband Cable
The standard power grid and power cables are used to not only carry electricity but also data.
Broadband Over Power Line (BPL)
A cable containing a center conductor made of copper that is enclosed by a plastic jacket.
Coaxial Line
a location within a cabling system that facilitates the termination of cable elements, plus the reconnection of those elements with jumpers, termination blocks, and/or cables to a patch panel, and so on.
Cross-Connect
A cable that connects two devices of the same type. A TWEIA 568A (straight-through) cable is used at one end and a TWEIA 568B (crossover) cable is used on the other end.
Crossover Cable
An event in which the signal in one wire interferes with the signal in another wire.
Crosstalk
Short for demarcation point, the last point of responsibility for a WAN service provider within a lacal network infrastructure.
Demarc
The length of copper or fiber cable that begins after the demarc point but still does not reach the whole way up to the MDF. Demarc extensions are most often found when the external service centers a building somewhere other than the MDF.
Demarc Extension
Noise that can result in the signal on a data cable being washed out to the point that a receiving network device cannot understand the packer’s contents.
Electromagnetic Interference (EMI)
another type of coaxial cable connector. F-connectors are most commonly used in broadband and home video applications. If you have cable television and/or Internet in your home, the type of coaxial cables used to connect your TV to your cable input uses the F-connector.
F-connector
A 25-pair or 1 00-pair cable that supplies signals to many connected pairs.
Feeder Cable
A category of communication in which both devices can send and receive communication at the same time.
Full-Duplex
A category of communication in which a device can either send communication or receove
Half-Duplex
Not a wiring standard, but a way to redirect data flow so that a computer is tricked into seeing it’s own output as input.
Hardware Loopback