Coaxial and Fiber
Coaxial and Fiber
Coaxial and Fiber
COAXIAL CABLE,
FIBER OPTIC CABLE,
CABLE CONNECTOR
AND APPLICATION
Table of contents
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Coaxial and optical fiber 2 Application
Cable connector
1. Coaxial and
optical fiber
1.1. Definition
- Coaxial cable: is a type of electrical cable
consisting of an inner conductor surrounded by a
concentric conducting shield, with the two separated
by a dielectric (insulating material).
- - There are two main types of coaxial cable:
+Thin cable
+Thick cable
1.1. Definition
The structure, each coaxial cable consists of
four main components:
• Center conductor
• Dielectric layer
• Outer Conductor/Shield
• Outermost plastic coating
1.1. Definition
Fiber optic cable is a common type of
telecommunication cable used today. It is
made from compact glass or fiber optic
plastic. This optical fiber is used to transmit
light signals. The fiber optic cable has a
central conductor fiber, which is coated with
a liner to reflect the signals well.
1.2. Comparison of fiber optic cable with copper cable:
Fiber optic cable Coaxial cable
Speed Tall (over 100 GHz to PHz) Average (MHz to GHz)
Bandwidth In LANs, from 10Gbps to 100Gbps, depending on user’s In LANs, from about 2.5 Mbps (ARCnet) to 10
choice Mbps (Ethernet)
Classification Multimode Fiber (MMF), Single-mode Fiber (SMF) RG-58.50 ohm, RG-59.75 ohm, RG-62.93
ohm
Disadvantages -Installation and maintenance challenges. The moment one cable fails, the entire
-Higher initial investment and equipment costs. network will result in a network downage.
-Single mode vs multimode fiber.
-Disadvantages of using fiber optics in specific applications.
2. Cable connector
- The cable connector is a component
- attached
The cabletoconnector
the end ofisthe
a component
cable to
attached to the end of the cable to
connect to various connection ports.
connect to various connection ports.
- Cable connectors are classified by
- gender
Cable connectors
: are classified by
gender :
+Male cable connector
+Male cable connector
+Female cable connector
+Female cable connector
+Gender-neutral cable connector
+Gender-neutral cable connector
2. Cable connector
For network systems, we commonly encounter three types of cable connectors: