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Cable engineering for local area networks /
This book provides a complete guide to the design, procurement, installation and testing procedures for local area networks (LANs) using both copper and optical fibre cable technology. International, European and American LAN and premises cabling standards are explained and compared including the la...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, England :
Woodhead Publishing Limited,
2000.
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| Colección: | Woodhead Publishing series in electronic and optical materials.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Cable Engineering for Local Area Networks; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Basic applied mathematics; 2.1 Working with indices; 2.2 Prefixes to denote size; 2.3 Logarithms; 2.4 Decibels (dB); 2.5 Sine waves and phase; 2.6 Complex numbers; Chapter 3. Basic physics
- electrical; 3.1 SI system and fundamental units; 3.2 Atoms, elements and compounds; 3.3 Conductors, semi-conductors and insulators; 3.4 Electricity and circuits; Chapter 4. Basic physics
- optical; 4.1 The electromagnetic spectrum.
- 4.2 Reflection and refractionChapter 5. Communications theory; 5.1 Analogue and digital channels; 5.2 Binary, octal and hexadecimal; 5.3 Bandwidth and data rate; 5.4 Megabits and megahertz are not the same; 5.5 Noise; 5.6 The time domain and frequency domain; 5.7 Coding schemes; 5.8 Multiplexing; 5.9 Synchronous and asynchronous transmission; 5.10 Error correcting codes; 5.11 Digital subscriber lines (xDSL); Chapter 6. Local area networking and associated cabling; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The rise of structured cabling and local area networks.
- 6.3 LAN architecture and the open systems interconnection model6.4 Types of local area network; 6.5 Optical networks and channels; 6.6 Video applications over structured cabling; Reference; Chapter 7. Copper cable technology
- cable; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 American wire gauge; 7.3 Solid and stranded conductors; 7.4 Insulation material; 7.5 Fire rating of cables; 7.6 Screening or shielding of cables; 7.7 Multicore cables; 7.8 Twisted pair cables; 7.9 Categories and classes of cable; 7.1 0 External cable; 7.1 1 Quads; 7.12 Coaxial cable 'coax'; Chapter 8. Copper cable technology
- components.
- 8.1 Introduction8.2 Connectors; 8.3 Patch panels; 8.4 Telecommunications outlets; 8.5 Consolidation points; 8.6 Other devices; Chapter 9. Copper cable technology
- transmission characteristics; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 The fundamental units of measurement; 9.3 The cable as a transmission line; 9.4 Crosstalk and power sum measurements; 9.5 Nominal velocity of propagation; 9.6 Return loss; 9.7 TOC and common mode and differential mode transmission; 9.8 Electromagnetic emissions and immunity of cable; Chapter 10. Copper cable technology
- testing; 10.1 Introduction.
- 10.2 Time and frequency domain measurements10.3 Test parameters; 10.4 Testing standards; Chapter 11. Optical cable technology
- optical fibre; 11 .I Introduction; 11.2 Why use optical fibre?; 11.3 Fibre manufacture; 11.4 Multimode and singlemode, step index and graded index; 11.5 Optical fibres for datacommunications and telecommunications; 11.6 Wavelengths of operation; 11.7 Bandwidth and dispersion of optical fibre; 11.8 Attenuation; 11.9 Singlemode fibre; 11.10 Plastic optical fibre; Chapter 12. Optical cable technology
- cable; 12.1 Introduction; 12.2 Tight buffered optical fibre.