Fiber Optics
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100

This type of fiber optic cable is composed of 9 Micron diameter fibers.

What is Single Mode Fiber?

100

This is a 12-digit hexadecimal number assigned to each device connected to the network.

What is a Mac Address?

100

This is important in any installation as to organize and keep the cabling neat.

What is Cable Management?

100

What does VPN stand for?

What is Virtual Private Network?

100

This Circuit bandwidth operates at 1.54 Mbps.

What is a T-1?

200

This type of fiber optic cable is composed of 50 and 62.5 Micron diameter fibers.

What is Multimode?

200

The name of a network that connects smaller networks over large distances.

What is a WAN?

(Wide Area Network)

200

This type of cable rating has a special insulation that has low smoke and low flame characteristics.

What is Plenum rated Cable?

200

What does DHCP stand for?

What is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol?

200

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?

300

Optical transmissions bounce off of this within the cable.

What is Cladding?

300

This would describe devices connected by a communications link within a limited geographic area.

What is a LAN?

(Local Area Network)

300

This tool is used to clean a fiber optic endface

What is a cletop?

and/or

What is a one-click?

300

What does LEC Stand for?

What is Local Exchange Carrier?

300

What does Starlink classify as?

What is a Low Earth Orbit Satellite System?

400

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

400

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?

400

Used to identify cabling on all installations.

What is proper labeling?

400

What does POP Stand For?

What is Point of Presence?


400

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)

500

How does one get multiple light streams multiplexed within a fiber by separating by light frequency?

What is Wave Division Multiplexing?

500

This term is the measurement of data that can be transmitted over a network at any given time.

What is Bandwidth?

500

This describes having the same electrical potential and is an important portion for safety and transmission of power.

What is Bonding and/or Grounding?

500

What does SFP Stand for?

What is Small Formfactor Pluggable?

500

This is an application layer protocol used to provide a human-friendly naming mechanism for internet resources.

What is DNS?