CIT 307 Online Data Communications Transmission Media Module 7 Kevin Siminski, Instructor
Transmission Media and Layer 1
Classes of Media
Guided Media types Twisted Pair Cable Coaxial Cable Fiber-Optic Cable
Twisted Pair Why the twist??
Twisted Pair (continued) UTP and STP
Categories of UTP CategoryBandwidthData RateDigital/AnalogUse 1very low< 100 kbpsAnalogTelephone 2 < 2 MHz2 MbpsAnalog/digitalT-1 lines 3 16 MHz 10 MbpsDigitalLANs 4 20 MHz 20 MbpsDigitalLANs MHz 100 MbpsDigitalLANs 6 (draft) 200 MHz 200 MbpsDigitalLANs 7 (draft) 600 MHz 600 MbpsDigitalLANs
UTP Connectors
UTP Performance
Coaxial Cable
Types of Coaxial Cable CategoryImpedanceUse RG Cable TV RG Thin Ethernet RG Thick Ethernet
Coaxial Connectors
Coaxial Performance
Fiber Optic Cables Use either LED (Light Emitting Diode) or Laser transmitter Can be expensive to terminate cables. Time consuming Delicate
Fiber Optics
Fiber Optic types/modes
Modes of operation
Fiber types TypeCoreCladdingMode 50/ Multimode, graded-index 62.5/ Multimode, graded-index 100/ Multimode, graded-index 7/ Single-mode
Fiber Construction
Fiber Optic connectors
Fiber Optic Performance
Other Fiber Optic tid-bits Single Mode Fiber 99% of the time uses a laser for transmission. – Cable color is usually Yellow Multimode Fiber uses a LED for transmission – Cable color is usually Orange