OSI Model
Primary Cable Types
Cabling Signaling
Thinnet vs Thicknet
Thinnet vs Thicknet Cont.
100

To transmit bits over a medium; to provide mechanical and electrical specifications.

What is the physical layer?

100

A leading cable manufacturer, publishes a catalog that lists more than 2200 types of cabling.

What is Belden?

100

The conducting core and the wire mesh must always be kept separate from each other. If they touch, the cable will experience a ___________.

What is a short?

100

This cable is flexible coaxial cable about 0.64 centimeters (0.25 inches)thick.

What is Thinnet Cable?

100

_________ cable is a relatively rigid coaxial cable about 1.27 centimeters (0.5 inches) in diameter.

What is Thicknet?

200

To organize bits into frames; to provide hop-to-h?

What is the Data Link Layer?

200

At one time this cable was the most widely used network cabling.

What is coaxial cable?

200

An __________________ occurs when any two conducting wires or a conducting wire and a ground come into contact with each other.

What is an electrical short?

200

Because this type of coaxial cable is flexible and easy to work with, it can be used in almost any type of ___________installation.

What is a network?

200

The__________ the copper core, the farther the cable can carry signals.

What is thicker?

300

To move packets from source to destination; to provide internetworking.

What is the Network Layer?

300

The_________of a coaxial cable carries the electronic signals that make up the data.

What is the core?

300

_____________ is the loss of signal strength that begins to occur as the signal travels farther along a copper cable.

What is attenuation?

300

_______ manufacturers have agreed upon specific designations for different types of cable.

What is cable?

300

Thicknet cable can carry a signal for ______ meters (about 1640 feet).

What is 500 meters?

400

To provide reliable process-to-process message delivery and error recovery.

What is the Transport Layer?

400

Surrounding the core is a __________ insulating layer that separates it from the wire mesh.

What is a dielectric?

400

Attenuation causes signals to _____________.

What is deterioration?

400

_________ is the resistance, measured in ohms, to the alternating current that flows in a wire.

What is impedance?

400

A __________ connects the thinnet coaxial cable to the larger thicknet coaxial cable.

What is a transceiver?

500

To establish, manage and terminate sessions.

What is the session layer?

500

___________ is a signal overflow from the adjacent wire.

What is crosstalk?

500

Coaxial cabling is a good choice for___________distances and for reliability supporting higher data rates with less sophisticated equipment.

What is longer?

500

The principal distinguishing feature of the _________ family is the center core of copper.

What is the RG-58 Family?

500

Both thinnet and thicknet cable use a connection component, know as a _____ connector, to make the connections between the cable and the computers.

What is a BNC?