CompTIA Network+ (2009 Objectives) Tutorials
Network Cabling / Fiber Optic Cable
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Fiber Optic cable is kind of the really cool technology that exists in networking now. It's the Star Trek version of the Ethernet network and understand that Fiber Optic cable uses absolutely no copper wires so we lose that whole electromagnetic interference and resistance deal. But the bottom line is, is we're moving data by modulating pulses of light down light-sensitive materials. Now this is some fascinating reading. We won't go into a whole lot of detail here, but you can get up to 100 gigabits per second transmission. You can actually get faster than that now. It's almost like every Tuesday if you go out and read something else on some of the cool tech nerdy sites then you see that somebody's come up with a new technology that will push data even faster. And it's well worth your time to just go out and do some reading about fiber optics, how these cables are built, how they're designed, and so forth. Now there's two types of Fiber Optic cable that I want to mention here and then you need to go out and do some reading on this because this gets into one of the most confusing aspects of fiber optics for most people. There is Single-mode fiber optics and there's Multi-mode fiber optics and you use different cables for each one of these, but you also use different transmitting and receiving equipment. Now on the Network+ Exam they're not going to go into too much detail about Single-mode and Multi-mode and differences, but you do need to be aware of these so just kind of go out and do some reading on that. It'll help you in the real world. Now Single-mode Fiber can carry data up to 40 miles, OK? Very, very different from the copper world. Obviously it's more expensive. It's much more expensive than the old copper-based, but it's also more expensive than Multi-mode Fiber. Multi-mode Fiber can carry data up to six miles and it's the least expensive option on fiber optics. OK, so just remember: Single-mode will carry you farther, Multi-mode will carry you shorter. Now the connectors that you use on fiber optics - I just want to go ahead and mention these because you could see this on the exam - the ST connector looks like this and ST kind of means straight-up connector. It looks very, very similar like to our cable TV Coax type B and C connectors. It's kind of a variation on that. And then the other one is the SC connector, and this is the subscriber connector. So those are the two type connectors you're going to usually see on fiber optics. Just be aware that there's Single-mode, Multi-mode. Single-mode goes farther as far as distance. And you should have enough information here to get past the fiber Optic cable questions on the exam. But again, we've just barely scratched the surface on a very, very deep subject and I would strongly recommend to you go out and find you some good information on fiber optics and begin to read up because there's a lot of cool stuff here. It's fascinating stuff to learn and the more you know about this the more valuable you're going to be out there in the real world because we're all moving to fiber optics as video and voice-over IP and so forth continues to proliferate out there in the marketplace, we need larger and larger and larger bandwidth and the only place to get that, once you've maxed out the copper world, is to jump out there into fiber. So anyway, there's your Fiber Optic cable information to get you ready for the Network+ Exam.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | CompTIA Network+ (2009 Objectives) |
| Author: | Mark Long |
| SKU: | 34216 |
| ISBN: | 1-936334-90-9 |
| Release Date: | 2011-04-29 |
| Duration: | 6 hrs / 91 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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