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The measure of how much data is actually transmitted during any period in time? |
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? |
Bandwidth (The max potential of data that could be transferred) |
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Throughput and Bandwidth: 1 bit per second = |
1 bps (1 bit per second) |
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Throughput and Bandwidth: 1000 bits per second = |
Kilo / 1 Kbps (1 kilobit per second) |
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Throughput and Bandwidth: 1,000,000 bits per second = |
mega / 1 Mbps (1 megabit per second) |
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Throughput and Bandwidth: 1,000,000,000 bits per second = |
giga / 1 Gbps (1 gigabit per second) |
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Throughput and Bandwidth: 1,000,000,000,000 bits per second = |
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 |
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 |
RG-8 (Radio Guide 8) Outdated |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. |
RG-58 (Radio Guide 58) Outdated |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. |
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. |
F-Connector |
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Used as a turn and lock mechanism. Used with Thinnet, RG-6, and RG-59 cables. |
BNC Connector (Bayonet Neill Concelman) Outdated |
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Connects two coaxial cables together. |
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-Outdated F-Connectors are more common today.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. |
10Base2 |
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Color coded pairs of insulated copper wires |
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 |
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 |
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. |
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 |
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. |
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. |
Cat 7 (Category 7) |
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Unshielded Twisted Pair Cabling Standard: Maximum Throughput 40 - 100 Gbps 1000 MHz Bandwidth |
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. |
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. |
RJ-11 (Registered Jack 11) |
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Ethernet Standard: 10 Mbps speed 100 meter distance 2 pair wires used for transmission |
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 |
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 |
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 |
1000Base-TX (Gigabit Ethernet) Cat 6 |
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Ethernet Standard: 10,000 Mbps speed 100 meter distance Cat 6a or Cat 7 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Rollover cable |
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This method carries a current over a twisted-pair Ethernet wire. Defined by the 802.3af standard. |
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. |
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. |
MMF (Multimode Fiber) |
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Fiber Optic Ethernet Standard: 100 Mbps Speed Multimode Fiber (MMF) 2000 meter distance |
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 |
1000Base-LX (Gigabit Ethernet) |
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Fiber Optic Ethernet Standard: 1000 Mbps Speed MMF (Multimode Fiber) 550 meter distance |
1000Base-SX (Gigabit Ethernet) |
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Fiber Optic Ethernet Standard 10,000 Mbps Speed MMF (Multimode fiber) 300 meter distance |
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 |
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 |
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? |
Cross-talk |
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This type of cross talk occurs between two cables. |
Alien Cross-talk |
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The type of cross talk occurs between wire pairs near the source of a signal. |
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. |
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? |
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. |
Baseband |
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Multiple transmissions that share a single media is known as what? |
Broadband |
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WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) divides a beam of light into how many different wavelengths or colors? |
40 |
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What two connect types are typically used to terminate RG-6 and RG-59 cables? |
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 |
60; 160 |