...patch panels, hubs, switches, or routers), you need to direct the bundles overhead, vertically, and horizontally. • Ladder Rack • A popular choice for overhead cable routing is a ladder rack. Ladder racks come in many varieties. They can run alo...

...found on most types of network equipment, including NICs, switches, routers, and media converters. Because these devices are totally backwards compatible with other Ethernet devices, all you need to do to reap energy savings is to swap out devices.

...media including Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), wireless, and Digital Subscriber Line (DSL). • Remote access enables remote users to dial into your LAN over the phone by using either land lines ...

...as the CD drive, power switch and USB interface). Call centres, internet cafes and schools are examples of environments that may choose to locate some or all computers in a secure and environmentally controlled server rooms and give users access to...

...input to the output. Switching to battery operation takes up to 10 milliseconds. They only protect from power failures. • Line Interactive — They protect not only from power failure, but also from underand over-voltage. They are ideal for small t...

...a problem for many KVM switches, as they normally pass along mouse coordinates in a stream mode. This results in a CPU receiving data when it isn’t expecting it, and the mouse simply won’t function properly. • All ServSwitch™ products contain suppo...

...electrical power. • The Cause — Noise has many causes including nearby lightning, load switching, industrial equipment, and radio transmitters. It may be intermittent or chronic. • The Effect — Noise introduces errors into programs and data files.

...length of cable, switch from CAT5e or CAT6 cable to CAT5 cable, use a lower sreen resolution, or use a video skew compensator. • A video skew compensator removes colour drift by delaying some colour signals to compensate for differences in wi...