What is “Structured Cabling”?

What is “Structured Cabling”?

Structured cabling is a telecommunications cabling infrastructure consisting of a number of standardized smaller elements called subsystems. Structured cabling falls into five subsystems: A Demarcation point is the connection point where the telephone company network...
What is “Alien Crosstalk”?

What is “Alien Crosstalk”?

No, it’s not ET calling home. “Alien Crosstalk” is defined as “unwanted signal coupling from one balanced twisted-pair component, channel, or permanent link to another”. Alien crosstalk is not generally affected by common noise from motors, transformers, or florescent...
Ethernet Wiring for Home Networking

Ethernet Wiring for Home Networking

Although “Wifi” is simpler for a lot of people, due to multimedia sharing, bandwidth on some  home networks, some users  really want a hard-wired home networking solution. A wired network allows a private, high speed, network at home for Internet access, file...
Shielded or Unshielded Cat6 cable?

Shielded or Unshielded Cat6 cable?

With high bandwidth applications and network systems venturing into factory environments, the need for shielded Cat 6 cable has increased. In these new areas of installation, the environment where the network cable is run has large amounts of EMI (Electro-Magnetic...