Fiber Optics
This type of fiber optic cable is composed of 9 Micron diameter fibers.
What is Single Mode Fiber?
This is a 12-digit hexadecimal number assigned to each device connected to the network.
What is a Mac Address?
This is important in any installation as to organize and keep the cabling neat.
What is Cable Management?
What does VPN stand for?
What is Virtual Private Network?
This Circuit bandwidth operates at 1.54 Mbps.
What is a T-1?
This type of fiber optic cable is composed of 50 and 62.5 Micron diameter fibers.
What is Multimode?
The name of a network that connects smaller networks over large distances.
What is a WAN?
(Wide Area Network)
This type of cable rating has a special insulation that has low smoke and low flame characteristics.
What is Plenum rated Cable?
What does DHCP stand for?
What is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol?
This is the delay between when a user takes action on a network or web application and when the action reaches its destination. It's measured in milliseconds and can be caused by a number of factors within the network.
What is Latency?
Optical transmissions bounce off of this within the cable.
What is Cladding?
This would describe devices connected by a communications link within a limited geographic area.
What is a LAN?
(Local Area Network)
This tool is used to clean a fiber optic endface
What is a cletop?
and/or
What is a one-click?
What does LEC Stand for?
What is Local Exchange Carrier?
What does Starlink classify as?
What is a Low Earth Orbit Satellite System?
This connector end face is designed as a push-pull connector that locks in place with a latch to secure the cable. This is one of the preferred choices for high-density connections.
LC connectors
This is a unique set of numbers or combination of letters and numbers that are assigned to each device on a network to make it possible for switches and routers to deliver packets to the correct destinations.
What is an IP address?
Used to identify cabling on all installations.
What is proper labeling?
What does POP Stand For?
What is Point of Presence?
This is a technology that allows you to make voice calls using a Internet connection instead of a regular (or analog) phone line.
What is VoIP?
(Voice over IP)
How does one get multiple light streams multiplexed within a fiber by separating by light frequency?
What is Wave Division Multiplexing?
This term is the measurement of data that can be transmitted over a network at any given time.
What is Bandwidth?
This describes having the same electrical potential and is an important portion for safety and transmission of power.
What is Bonding and/or Grounding?
What does SFP Stand for?
What is Small Formfactor Pluggable?
This is an application layer protocol used to provide a human-friendly naming mechanism for internet resources.
What is DNS?