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Saturday, August 6, 2011

METALLIC CABLE TRANSMISSION MEDIA (C12 Tomasi)


CHAPTER 12
METALLIC CABLE TRANSMISSION MEDIA

1)Provides a conduit in which electromagnetic signals are contained.
Guided Transmission Media

2)Emitted then radiated through air or a vacuum.                   Unguided Transmission Media

3)Used to propagate electromagnetic signals between two locations in a communications system.             Cable Transmission Medium

4)Most common means of interconnecting devices in local area networks.                    Cable Transmission Systems

5)Metallic conductor system used to transfer electrical energy from one point to another using electrical current flow.                   Transmission line

6)Two basic kinds of waves.                      longitudinal and transverse

7)The rate at which the periodic wave repeats.                       Frequency

8)Currents that flow in opposite directions in a balanced wire pair.             Metallic circuit currents

9)Currents that flow in the same direction.                    Longitudinal currents

10)Cancellation of common mode signals.                   Common mode rejection

11)One wire is at the ground potential, whereas the other is at signal potential.               Single-ended or unbalanced

12)A circuit device used to connect a balanced transmission line to an unbalanced load.                  balun

14)Most common metallic cables used to interconnect data communications systems and computer networks.                   Parallel-conductor transmission lines and coaxial transmission lines.

15)Formed by twisting two insulated conductors around each other.                     Twisted-pair

16)Types of twisted pair.                 Unshielded twisted pair and Shielded twisted pair

17)Coupling that takes place when a transmitted signal is coupled into the received signal at the same end of the cable.                Near-end crosstalk

18)Standard color code specified by the EIA for CAT-5 cable.
Pair 1: blue/white stripe and blue
Pair 2: orange/white stripe and orange
Pair 3: green/white strip[e and green
Pair 4: brown/white stripe and brown

19)Woven into a mesh.                   Braid

20)Name given to the area between the ceiling and the root in a single-story building or between the ceiling and the floor of the next higher level in a multi-story building.                      Plenum

21)Used for high data transmission rates to reduce losses and isolate transmission path.
Coaxial

22)Refers to the woven stranded mesh that surrounds some types of coaxial cables.                 Shielding

23)One layer of foil insulation and one layer of braided shielding.                Dual shielded

24)Types of coaxial cables.                        Rigid air-filled; solid flexible

26)Uniformly distributed throughout the length of the line.                 Distributed parameters

27)Transmission characteristics of a transmission line.              Secondary constants

28)Impedance seen looking into an infinitely long line.                       Surge impedance

29)Expressed the attenuation and the phase shift per unit length of a transmission line.                 Propagation constants
30)Ratio of the actual velocity of propagation of an electromagnetic wave through a given medium to the velocity of propagation through a vacuum.                 Velocity factor.

31)Relative permittivity of a material.                  Dielectric constant

32)Several ways in which signal power is lost.
Conductor loss, radiation loss, dielectric heating loss, coupling loss and corona

33)Voltage that propagates from the source toward the load.                    Incident voltage

34)Voltage that propagates that propagates from the load toward the source.             Reflected voltage

35)Transmission line with no reflected power.                Flat or non resonant line

36)Vector quantity that represents the ratio of reflected voltage to incident voltage or reflected current to incident current.                       Reflection coefficient

37)Incident power is absorbed by the load.                  Matched line

38)Incident power returned (reflected) to the source.                        Unmatched or mismatched line

39)Two travelling waves set up an interference pattern.                    Standing wave

40)Ratio of the maximum voltage to the minimum voltage or the maximum current to the minimum            current of a standing wave on a transmission line.                   Standing-wave ratio

41)Used to matched transmission lines to purely resistive loads whose resistance is not equal to the characteristic impedance of the line.                Quarter-wavelength transformers

42)A technique that can be used to locate an impairment in a metallic cable
Time domain reflectometry (TDR)

43)Return signal.                   Echo

44)Simply a flat conductor separated from a ground plane by an insulating di-electric material.                    Microstrip

45)Simply a flat conductor sandwiched between two ground planes.                   Stripline

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