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Copper Cables

Copper cables

  • Balanced pair operation
    • Two wires wit equal and opposite signalls
    • Transmi+ Tranismit-/Recive+,Recive-
  • The twist is the secret
    • Keeps a single wire constantly moving away from the interfernce
    • The opposite signals are compared on the other end
  • Extensive installation
    • Relativly inexpensive
    • Easy to install and maintain
  • Limited bandwidth avaliabity
    • Psychics limits electrical signals through copper
  • Used in WAN
    • cable modem DSL
  • Often comabined with fiber
    • Copper on the local loop ,fiber in the bacground ## Copper cable categories CopperCablesCategories_visual.png

Coaxial cables

  • Two or more forms share a common axis
  • Rg-6 used in televison/digital cable
    • AND high speed internet over cablee CoaxialCables_visual.png ## Twinaxial cable Two inner conductors (Twins)
  • Common on 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ cables
    • full duplex
    • five meters
    • low cost
    • low Latency commpared to twisted paitr

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