...meet for CAT7 and CAT6a systems. It is not specifically required to meet the characteristics of the standards of CAT5, CAT5e or CAT6. Neither is it contributing significantly to the resilience of the cable to resist external RF noise such as mains i...

Category 5 and 5e • Category 5 and 5e • Category 5 • Category 5 (CAT5) cabling is good, solid cable for 100-Mbps LANs. The Category 5 standard has been around since 1991, so it’s well established. You’ll find existing Category 5 installati...

...with existing 10BASE-T systems and thus enables plug-and-play upgrades from 10BASE-T. Fast Ethernet is sometimes referred to as 100BASE-X where X is a placeholder for the FX and TX variants • Gigabit Ehernet • Gigabit Ethernet was the next step, in...

Power problems. • Power-problems • Sags • The Threat — A sag is a decline in the voltage level. Also known as “brownouts,“ sags are the most common power problem • The Cause — Sags can be caused locally by the start-up demands of electrical de...

...using Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) • The MediaCento IPX can be configured with multiple sources and screens. We recommend different switches for different configurations, depending on the number of sources and screens. Check the table b...

...as raised-floor cooling systems to meet their high cooling requirements, but it’s also important to ensure that cabinets used to house blade servers provide adequate ventilation—even in a cool room, hot spots can develop inside cabinets if air distr...

...pair to connect end systems, and fiber optic versions for site backbones. It is standardized as IEEE 802.3. • The older versions of Ethernet are known as Thick (standard) and ThinNet Ethernet, standards that support speeds up to 10-Mbps. • Thin ...

...to large mainframe systems such as VAX™. Today, the name terminal server refers to a device that connects any serial device to a network, usually Ethernet. In this day of network-ready devices, terminal servers are not as common as they used to...