LSZH and PVC cables • LSZH and PVC cables • The European market is demanding that cables used in LANs, WANs, etc. meet LSZH specification. The IEC 60332-1 governs the Flame Retardant Grade specifications in reference to LSZH cables. • Reductio...

Fibre cable and pulling eyes • Fibre cable and pulling eyes • A damaged Fibre Optic Cable during Pulling • Fibre optic cable can be damaged if pulled improperly. Broken or cracked fibre, for example, can result from pulling on the fibre core o...

...vs. duplex fiber patch cable • Simplex vs. duplex fibre patch cable. • Multimode and single-mode patch cables can be simplex or duplex. • Simplex has one fibre, while duplex zipcord has two fibres joined with a thin web. Simplex (also known as sing...

...of traditional VGA cable and the distance limitations of the PS/2 protocol. • High resolution computer graphics and long distance VGA cable's • The VGA (Video Graphics Array) connector is by far the most common interface used to connect a monit...

Shielded Ethernet Cables • Shielded Ethernet Cables • STP and S/STP • Two basic types of shielded cables are offered by Black Box and the Industry.The first group are cables with an overall shield know generically as STP. The second are constr...

Cable construction and delay skew. • Cat5 extender and CAT5e or CAT6 cables (delay skew) • If you connect CAT5e or CAT6 cable to a CAT5 extender, the result is blurry images on your monitor. The effect is known as delay skew, but do you know w...

...6a • Category 6 and 6a Cables • Category 6 • The next level in the cabling hierarchy is Category 6 (CAT6) (ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-1), which was ratified by the TIA/EIA in June 2002. CAT6 provides higher performance than CAT5e and features more string...