Crossover cable. • Crossover Cable • Crossover cable is generally used for hub-to-hub connections. The send and receive pairs are crossed between Connector A to Connector B on either end of the cable. There are two standards for the pairing of...

Cable management • Cable management • Corporate networks are complex systems of PCs, servers, printers, and the devices that connect them. Getting everything to work in harmony requires bundles of cables, and managing all those cables from ins...

Cable termination • Cable termination • Carefully remove the jacketing from the cable and expose one inch of the insulated wire conductors. Do not remove any insulation from the conductors. When the RJ-45 connector is crimped, the contacts ins...

Breakout-style cables. • Breakout-style cables • Eliminating need for patch cables • With breakout- or fanout-style cables, the fibres are packaged individually or in groups. This enables you to divide cables to serve users with individual fib...

Cable testers from simple to advanced. • Cable testers from simple to advanced • Testing LAN Cabling installation • Cabling installed in an office LAN must support strict parameters to handle Ethernet traffic. Installers rely on different type...

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 choice...

DisplayPort cable • DisplayPort cable • DisplayPort is a digital video interface that was designed by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) in 2006 and has been produced since 2008. It competes directly with HDMI®. Unlike HDMI, ho...

...Single-Mode Fibre Optic Cable • Single-Mode Fibre Optic Cable • Multimode fibre cable has multiple modes of propagation—that is, several wavelengths of light are normally used in the fibre core. In contrast, single-mode fibre cable has only one mode...

...between PVC and LS0H cables? • What's the difference between PVC and LS0H cables • Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) cable has a jacket that gives off heavy black smoke, hydrochloric acid, and other toxic gases when it burns. • Low Smoke Zero Halogen (LS0...

...Visual Interface (DVI) cables. • Digital Visual Interface (DVI) cables • The Digital Visual Interface (DVI) standard is based on transition-minimized differential signaling (TMDS). In a typical single-line digital signal, voltage is raised to a hig...