Coax connectors. • Coax Connectors • The • Bayonet-Neill-Concelman (BNC) • connector, the most common connector, is widely used in video and radio frequency (RF) applications to 2.4 GHz, 10BASE2 Ethernet networks, cable interconnections, netwo...

PoE phantom power • PoE phantom power • PoE over Gigabit Ethernet • 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX Ethernet use only two pairs of wire in 4-pair CAT5/CAT5e/CAT6 cable, leaving the other two pairs free to transmit power for Power over Ethernet (PoE) a...

SFP, SFP+, and XFP transceivers • SFP, SFP+, and XFP transceivers • SFP, SFP+, and XFP are all terms for a type of transceiver that plugs into a special port on a switch or other network device to convert the port to a copper or fiber interfac...

IEEE 1394 - Firewire • IEEE 1394 - Firewire • Although USB has emerged as the simple plug-and-play standard for attaching peripherals, there is a faster standard called IEEE 1394. • Used for High speed Multimedia equipment • Developed by Sony®...

Bend radius • Bend radius • Bending a fibre cable • One of the most important considerations when installing fibre optic cable is maintaining the minimum bend radius. Bending a fibre cable excessively may cause the optical signal to refract an...

IEEE-1394. • IEEE 1394 • Although USB has emerged as the simple plug-and-play standard for attaching peripherals, there is a faster standard called IEEE 1394. • Used for High speed Multimedia equipment • Developed by Sony® as i.Link • TM • and...

Insertion loss. • Insertion loss • Insertion loss is a power loss that results from inserting a component into a previously continuous path or creating a splice in it. It is measured by the amount of power received before and after the inserti...